What do you know about Chinese films?
I'm working on a project about Chinese cinema, and I need to interview some movie fans who are not of Chinese ancestry about what they know/think about Chinese movies.
First of all, how do you define what is Chinese? What is your experience? What have you seen or would like to see? What is your impression of Mainland Chinese films? Any other thoughts, favorite films and why, feel free to add. -- This is for a class on Chinese Pop Culture (about 99% focused on the mainland). Feel free to post your thoughts. If possible, can you tell me where you live -- what country or state? Thanks so much! |
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I know I can never get through them using chopsticks.
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Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Originally Posted by stellacadente (Post 480288)
First of all, how do you define what is Chinese?
What is your experience? What have you seen or would like to see?
What is your impression of Mainland Chinese films?
I'm from Croatia btw. |
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First, I think the kungfu panda is about Chinese kungfu, and I have seen some chinese kungfu films.
Second, I think some of Chinese films are good. I know Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Well, Lucy Liu is chinese,too. |
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For me, what I know about Chinese films is that even if it's an epic, about an hour after I've seen one I feel like watching another.
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Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Originally Posted by rufnek (Post 480289)
I know I can never get through them using chopsticks.
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Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Originally Posted by stellacadente (Post 480288)
First of all, how do you define what is Chinese?
So not being able to answer the first question, I'm not sure how to answer the rest. There's Lust,Caution but that's pretty much a co-production, not wholly Chinese (a very good film, though). So extending my knowledge of Chinese cinema beyond Ang Lee would be a good idea for me, I think... Although I have seen A Chinese Ghost Story (using all English titles because I can't spell the Chinese ones). That was a pretty silly film, although quite entertaining. Sorry not to be of more help... |
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Originally Posted by adidasss (Post 480303)
Anything made by people from mainland China. Although with the recent trend of co-productions it's hard to tell what's Taiwanese, Hong-kong or Chinese...
I've seen a few, lately mostly historical epics or wuxia. The most recent was Red Cliff I believe...it wasn't very good. Not enough diversity or artistic merit, at least as far as the stuff the gets distributed abroad. Anything that resembles critiquing the system gets censored. Sugarcoated films or social melodramas seeped with propaganda seem to be the norm (with notable exceptions such as Blind shaft, Still life and Devils on the doorstep). I'm from Croatia btw. |
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Originally Posted by Thursday Next (Post 480555)
I honestly don't know. Is it films made in China, or films in a Chinese language? Do Hong Kong films count? I've even seen The Wedding Banquet mentioned as a Chinese films being partly in Mandarin but it's really Taiwanese/American.
So not being able to answer the first question, I'm not sure how to answer the rest. There's Lust,Caution but that's pretty much a co-production, not wholly Chinese (a very good film, though). So extending my knowledge of Chinese cinema beyond Ang Lee would be a good idea for me, I think... Although I have seen A Chinese Ghost Story (using all English titles because I can't spell the Chinese ones). That was a pretty silly film, although quite entertaining. Sorry not to be of more help... So thanks! |
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So just wondering if anyone has seen any of these films? What did you think of them?
Tuya's Wedding Crazy Stone Summer Palace (Yihe Yuan) Mongolian Ping Pong Beijing Bicycle The World Suzhou River They are films from Mainland directors of the "Sixth Generation" and are the equivalent of what we'd call "indie" films here in the US. Most are in Mandarin or other dialects (not Cantonese) of the mainland. Some have some funding or producing connection to Hong Kong, but the directors are resolutely postmodern mainlanders. |
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I like the fighting in chineese movie.
haiyaaaaaaa |
Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Originally Posted by Julia.P (Post 480437)
First, I think the kungfu panda is about Chinese kungfu, and I have seen some chinese kungfu films.
Second, I think some of Chinese films are good. I know Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Well, Lucy Liu is chinese,too. |
Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Originally Posted by stellacadente (Post 481044)
So just wondering if anyone has seen any of these films? What did you think of them?
Tuya's Wedding Crazy Stone Summer Palace (Yihe Yuan) Mongolian Ping Pong Beijing Bicycle The World Suzhou River They are films from Mainland directors of the "Sixth Generation" and are the equivalent of what we'd call "indie" films here in the US. Most are in Mandarin or other dialects (not Cantonese) of the mainland. Some have some funding or producing connection to Hong Kong, but the directors are resolutely postmodern mainlanders. |
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Meh, who would want to watch a Chinese film just for the heck of it? I mean if I saw one that I wanted to see, I would see it. But seriously, I mean Chinese?
Meh, I'm gonna go watch an Argentina film. :D |
Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Some of us enjoy watching foreign films...
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Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 480438)
For me, what I know about Chinese films is that even if it's an epic, about an hour after I've seen one I feel like watching another.
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Re: What do you know about Chinese films?
Originally Posted by adidasss (Post 481129)
Some of us enjoy watching foreign films...
I am looking forward to seeing the upcoming remake of 12 Angry Men which happens to be a foreign film. |
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I think chinese culture kind of differs. If its about war films, Hero(2002) made a huge impact with the arrow rain scene. Probably even to western culture.
Cape no.7 recently made a good rise in taiwan. Its not really full chinese but people get the "feel" out of it. Wong kar wai has many good films too that captivate moods very well. Zhang yimou stylizes chinese martial arts. the colors and all. Like Curse of golden flower. The many golden soldiers rushing in the palace again silver soldiers was kind of badass. Martial arts film go all the way for chinese films too. Jet li, jackie chan, donnie yen. Edward yang writes spectacular scripts too bad he died recently. Ah whatever. |
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Meh.
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Being form Norway, seeing foreign films, or subtitled films, isn’t something I am uncustomary to.
To categorize movie by country of origin have always been a “no no” for my part. It gives me as a viewer no useful information about the movie. What language they speak on the other hand is very important. Some languages, like Mongolian and the Russian/Slavic languages, makes my stomach sick. Mandarin and Cantonese aren’t the most beautiful languages out there, but they aren’t nausea inducing. I can’t say that my experience with Chinese movies is all that great. I think I only have seen twenty or so movies when one includes those form Hong Kong. The majority, but not all, of these are shockingly enough Kung Fu or Wuxia flicks. I think the reason for my lack of interest in Chinese movies can be attributed to the Chinese filmmakers. Unlike the contemporary filmmakers of Japan and Korea, I find the Chinese filmmakers quite boring. They are not lacking in interesting concepts, but I find their presentation very unimaginative and formulistic. If you exclude the random array of Kung Fu and Wuixa movies I have ready to viewing, the only Chinese movie I currently have on my way to big playlist is Three Times. |
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