50 years ago, the legendary martial arts superstar Bruce Lee looked at Hollywood, which was in the first period of development, and confidently left a prophecy.
At that time, many Americans thought that Bruce Lee's speech was too arrogant, but now it seems that his prediction is coming true.
There are even people who believe that Hollywood, which insists on "political correctness", is gradually moving towards self-destruction amid the scolding of domestic and foreign audiences...
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1. Is the global box office not global?
Recently, the well-known box office statistics in the United States, Box Office Mojo, announced the global box office list for 2023.
Surprisingly, there is not a single Chinese film in this list, which claims to bring together the world's highest-grossing films.
For a while, the voices of singing about Chinese films came and went, and many people with bad intentions jumped out at this time, shouting that there is no future for making movies in China. But is that really the case?
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In 2023, the movie "Man Jianghong" will break out of the encirclement in a number of Chinese New Year movies, with 45The box office of 4.4 billion is the highest in the list of Chinese films. The critically acclaimed Chinese sci-fi film "The Wandering Earth 2" also achieved quite good results, with 40The box office of 2.9 billion once again proved to the world that the future of Chinese science fiction films is promising.
In addition, movies such as "All or Nothing", "Disappearing Her", and "Fengshen Part 1" also have quite outstanding performances. If converted to US dollars, then the above five films can be at the top of the global box office list.
Compared to the box office, it is only 5"The Little Mermaid", a $6.9 billion film that ranks seventh at the global box office, hit a 6"Man Jianghong", which grossed $6.7 billion at the box office, is obviously more worthy of being on the list than it.
Even if there is no "Man Jianghong", the box office is as high as 5The $9.8 billion "The Wandering Earth 2" is also enough to win the eighth place.
The critically acclaimed "The Wandering Earth".
If you just carefully don't include Chinese movies, forget it, and the appearance of Box Office Mojo is also ugly. Although they did not count Chinese films, they did include Chinese mainland box office in the global box office.
Unwilling to admit the high box office of Chinese films, but wanting the huge film market in Chinese mainland, the approach of some American filmmakers really interprets the word shamelessness to the extreme.
Coincidentally, in addition to "the global box office is not at the box office", the Oscars, which have always been regarded as the most influential film awards in the world, also made a riot.
If in the past, people could justify the failure of Chinese films to be shortlisted for the Oscars for Best International Film, and the problem of film quality was a problem, then this time, the result of "The Wandering Earth 2" not being selected for the 96th Oscar for Best International Film is really puzzling.
List of domestic movie box offices.
In addition to Chinese netizens supporting "The Wandering Earth 2", American netizens who have actually watched this movie have also said that "The Wandering Earth 2" should not be excluded from the Oscars.
Their remarks undoubtedly punctured an illusion carefully created by the United States: the mainstream circle of the United States is moving towards a strange circle of self-isolation, and Hollywood is falling into the closed loop of "political correctness".
Second, the Hollywood of the past.
Have you ever seen a sea creature mutated by nuclear wastewater?
If not, congratulations, in Disney's latest live-action work, The Little Mermaid, you can see the mermaid princess Ariel, mutated by marine pollution.
The heroine of the new version of "The Little Mermaid", Ariel.
Of course, this is just a joke, "The Little Mermaid" basically continues the original in terms of story structure, and there is no realistic plot such as Japan's discharge of nuclear wastewater. But the problem is that Ariel, the mermaid who originally appeared in the image of white **, red hair, and green eyes, was actually played by a black actor.
Why did the director use a black actor to play Ariel? It's all because of the four big words "political correctness".
In the past, Hollywood was a benchmark for world cinema and a place of pilgrimage for countless actors, and the various works it launched at that time did not live up to people's admiration.
Like the movie Star Wars series, the Matrix series, and the Pirates of the Caribbean series, which are very familiar to Chinese people, are all classic works launched by it.
Pirates of the Caribbean series.
However, in recent years, especially in the past two years, Hollywood-produced works are no longer as widely praised by the Chinese people as before, and even Marvel's carefully crafted hero movies seem to have lost their original charm to the audience.
Looking at Hollywood movies over the years, it is not difficult to find that Western filmmakers are gradually falling into the dilemma of having no scenes to film. There are fewer and fewer excellent originals, and more and more remakes or sequels.
For example, the famous "Lord of the Rings" series will launch a sequel "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" in 2022, and the well-known action crime movie "Fast and Furious" will simply come out in the tenth installment.
If the quality of remakes and sequels is reasonable, the problem is that the quality of these films has also dropped significantly.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" stills, including elves, dwarves, etc.
The Black Elf from The Rings of Power.
Elves from The Rings of Power.
Take the sequel to "The Lord of the Rings", which was originally highly anticipated by the audience, as soon as it was released, Chinese audiences exclaimed, I didn't expect the wind of aesthetic downgrade to be so prevalent on the west coast of the ocean!
It is no wonder that the audience reacted violently, after all, in the sequel, the appearance of the elf is really not in line with the beautiful image depicted by the original author Tolkien, and even the hobbits in "The Lord of the Rings" and the dwarves in "The Hobbit" are more like elves than the elves in "The Rings of Power".
Even among the elves, there are very conspicuous black elves.
There are ** domestic defenders for it, saying that this is a masterpiece to break secular prejudices, but in the eyes of the audience, this is the embodiment of Hollywood's "political correctness".
The Hobbit from The Lord of the Rings.
The dwarf in The Hobbit.
The appearance of the Black Elves and the Black Mermaid may seem like Hollywood's efforts to improve the racist situation of black actors, but is that really the case?
The black actress who played the mermaid Ariel was wildly ridiculed by all walks of life before the movie was released, and the black actor who played the black elf even revealed that after the show was broadcast, he was subjected to large-scale cyberbullying and almost dared not open his mobile phone.
Among the various actors, it is not that there are no black actors who are attractive in appearance, and if you take 10,000 steps back, if you change the spicy outfits in the work, the appearance of the two black actors is actually quite good. But because of some factors, they can only appear on the screen in a ridiculous posture.
Is this an effort to reduce racial discrimination? Apparently not.
There is no shortage of universally recognized beauties among blacks, pictured with black supermodel Iman Bowie.
Demonstrations against racial discrimination.
Behind Hollywood's "political correctness" is their carelessness, their condescension. Compared with the Hollywood of the past, the Hollywood of today is quite ugly.
3. Both and again?
In 1971, the legendary martial arts superstar Bruce Lee from China appeared on the stage of the American talk show "The Pierre Burton Show".
At this time, even if Bruce Lee was in a foreign country, he also made a great reputation with his excellent strength and attracted a lot of loyal fans, but in the American film industry, he was still inevitably excluded and discriminated against.
When starring in the movie "The Green Hornet", Bruce Lee's salary was only $450, and even the extras who were brought in to make up the number were paid much more than him, a well-known movie star, which shows how serious the exclusion of Chinese Americans in the American film industry was at that time.
The remuneration offered by the crew of "The Green Hornet" to the staff.
But despite all the discrimination, Bruce Lee's attitude is still so confident and optimistic.
He said on the show:
In the United States, I think something Oriental, I mean, something really Oriental, should be shown to the Western world.
I think the pigtail-tailed, obscene, "hurry up", eyebrows-winching, I think are very, very outdated.
I insist that the Chinese element will attract more and more attention from the world in the coming years.
Once China opens up one day, I mean, there will be more mutual understanding, more things, you know, will be different, and maybe in the process of comparison, new things will be born.
Bruce lee. At this time, Bruce Lee was in full swing in Hollywood, a household name, a special company came to shoot movies for him, and ambitious warriors worshipped him and respected him as a teacher.
However, even so, in Hollywood, Bruce Lee can really feel the turbulent waves flowing under the appearance of kindness, and feel the inequality under the slogan of "freedom and equality", which is why he will say those things in the show that the host and all the audience present did not expect.
Nowadays, new things and new lives are constantly emerging in the Chinese film industry, just as Bruce Lee envisioned back then. Hollywood, on the other hand, is gradually moving towards self-containment because it is too "politically correct".
Once literary and artistic creation is closed, there is only a dead end. This truth is known to the world, and it is impossible for Hollywood not to know it. What makes them still choose to shy away from the excellent cultures of other countries?
Hollywood. Perhaps because Hollywood is overconfident, they firmly believe that there is only one benchmark in the world, and they don't need to think about anything else except themselves; Maybe it's because Hollywood is afraid that they can't accept a world where they are not the benchmark, and they can't accept the atmosphere of a hundred flowers.
However, while rejecting Chinese culture, Hollywood cannot part with the huge profits from the Chinese film market and the praise from Chinese audiences.
So, while rejecting Chinese films, they vigorously exported their own films to the outside world, and the abacus was clanging, wanting both this and that, and wanting to take advantage of all good things.
In addition to Chinese films, films from countries such as Russia are facing a similar situation.
Universal Studios Hollywood.
Political correctness "can't bring Hollywood back to life, but slides further into the abyss." It's just a pity that some people will never notice this phenomenon, or they don't want to notice it at all.
Relying only on excellent directors and well-known movie stars is destined to not be able to save the overall situation of decadence, and the fundamental problems cannot be solved, let alone anything else.
What awaits the future world film market is bound to be a hundred flowers contending, rather than a monopoly. If you can't get out of the circle, no one can say what awaits Hollywood.