Yeah, I'm watching more chinese movies too but there's a kind of disturbing trend where more and more movies have a spoilt unreasonable female part where everyone dotes on or acquiesces to no matter how unreasonable she is.
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AssassinsMace
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I write scripts and the majority have female leads. I personally like to watch a hot woman beat up a guy. Yes, I'm well aware that the woke crowd don't like a woman portrayed as being hot either. I'd be careful for any Asian male joining up with the ranks of the anti-wokeness crowd so easily. The anti-woke faction is really talking about white male dominance. The last season of Star Wars The Clone Wars there was a storyline introducing two new characters that were obviously Latina women and like clockwork the anti-woke crowd hated them. Why? Because Latins in space is an absurdity. Everyone knows Western whites will dominate space... In reality more Chinese will likely be in space than any other nationality. Hollywood will never depict that. Look at Star Trek where it's lauded as being a positive diverse look into the future. There are more extraterrestrial aliens seen on a starship than you see Asians. Anti-wokeness is about race too not only just sex. Comedian Louis CK is a hero of the anti-woke crowd. Not only is he sexist when it comes to women, he's also known for a bit in his comedy where he talks about how Asian men aren't men. The anti-woke crowd wants to put you in your place too just like a woman.
Indeed, many posters here don't fully understand Hollywood, subcultures in the US, and the realities of being "Asian American", and have some unwarranted prejudice against any or all of the above. Shang Chi is a mainstream Hollywood movie that tries to be "inclusive" of "Asian Americans", with all the good, the bad, and the ugly, and very little to do with China, Chinese people, and Chinese culture.
While we are on the topic of attractiveness I would say there are problems with the Chinese entertainment industry churning out skeletal and bleach white actors and actresses which is really promoting an unhealthy image regardless of whether one finds it attractive. Not unique to the Chinese entertainment industry but I hope they move on from that.
How can you say promote Asian Americans when Shang Chi is mostly Chinese based yet they failed to promote anything Chinese the hardest?
As for your second part, do you even know how Chinese regularly looks? This has nothing to do with unhealthy style but genetics. The Chinese in general have always had skinny bodies. If anything, your comment makes you sound like you know nothing regarding Chinese bodies and are trying to force other standards onto us. The only unhealthy thing here is how people always try to force the Chinese to become something they don't like and somehow see anything natural as unnatural not understanding we are different from others and have our own standards.
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Sorry for the rant but that comment reminded me of all those people who always slander Asian bodies and beauty. It's the same sh*t they always do. Skinny and natural body? "unhealthy", Beautiful face? "Fake and plastic surgery". It's disgusting and appalling.
solarz
Brigadier
Same here, I'm getting really tired of western movies and games. Always the same white savior complex.
There are a few exceptions, but those are few and far between.
solarz
Brigadier
Unfortunately, this is one of those tropes that I'm getting really tired of. It was interesting when this was the exception, but when it becomes the rule, it's just eye-rolling. Not just in movies, but in games as well.
Worse yet, the choreography always plays out the same way, with the female pulling physically impossible stunts on her male opponents. At the very least, I would like to see the female use weapons to compensate for her physical disadvantage.
If you don't trust weibo etc. Maybe you can try a poll in this forum?I suspect that you won't get much different opinions from members (Chinese mainlanders) here than from Weibo.
In my opinion, Liu Simu is just an ordinary looking guy who would not have a chance if he was in China EXCEPT for minor roles or special roles.
About the banning, it is totally up to what Chinese in China think, there is no place for argument. "I don't like it, I ban it. I change my mind tomorrow, I let it in." Never argue with or try to prove the customer wrong, that is the only logic.
Liu Simu looks a lot like Lei Jiaying, who is pretty big in China. I don't understand what the big fuss is.
Eh, I don't see it.
Same basic northern Chinese look.