Let me give <The Mummy 3> a chance to be human again

This is a movie that will make Chinese netizens fight a war of words + play a nationalist spirit. If you don't believe me, you can go to the comments of various film and television forums. It is estimated that those who criticize it will definitely not judge it less than those who criticize Xie Yalong

. If the whole drama is set in Egypt, or at least not in China, then the reaction in the Chinese market will be mediocre, but, that is, , , <...>, etc. After waiting, foreigners began to challenge the bottom line of Chinese people's re-appreciation of traditional culture. Because of this, there are probably not too many good Chinese people

. I am a calm nationalist, so I have to calm down. First of all, for someone who is accustomed to Hollywood's shooting methods, this film

is indeed a Hollywood "type film". The genre is very standard, so it is a very standard series. Adventure, resurrection of the mummy (the Terracotta Warriors are clearly cuter than the mummy), there are twists and turns, and finally a happy ending. Even the witch and the general turned into flying dust and went away successfully, which is a typical Hollywood model. This is the advantage of genre films. We don't need to use our brains, and we only need to spend our minds on visual shock.

Secondly, China's traditional culture, this point, has been criticized the most, especially the Chinese people who are too familiar with the terracotta warriors and horses, who may view this film as a nonsensical parody. In short, we are not Egyptians, and we don’t know what the pyramids and mummies are like. Therefore, we have a good impression of the first two works of Mummy, but now, it is estimated that Egyptians will doubt the feeling of seeing . The discoverer of the Terracotta Warriors turned from a peasant to a foreign explorer, Qin Shihuang was cursed by a woman because he was defeated in a love triangle, he would still be magic, Shangri-La MS went to the snowy mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, naked snowmen, etc. Of course, these It can be regarded as a reasonable imagination for a sci-fi adventure movie. If Laomouzi was filmed, he reckoned that in addition to shooting Qin Ling in a higher mountain and the scene was more pompous, he might also participate in the above. fantasy. However, when you see that Qin Shihuang has become a Western dragon, Hulk, Godzilla, etc., you will feel that this is indeed the aesthetic taste and disaster thinking of Westerners. silent

Third, you can find that I am joking, but I have absolutely absolutely no nationalistic viciousness in it, and I did not curse that foreigners have come to spoil Chinese culture again. In fact, we can imagine this When the film was made behind the scenes, there was some research on that period of history. For example, in the bow and crossbow formation of the Qin soldiers, at least the soldiers did not shoot at close range like the Indians, but shot from a large elevation angle. ; The first line of Qin soldiers used the infantry sprint of Changge, which was a method only used by Qin people at that time. Don't say, these are basic common sense, which everyone knows. A bloodier example is that at least the sword used by Jet Li in is a heavy bronze sword (the one that the adventurer couple took from the soldiers), but the one used by Jet Li in can only be used after the Song Dynasty. The thin sword made, pulls Laomouzi out to show his eyes, isn't it bloody enough?

Fourth, after watching this film, I have two words in my heart: helpless. . . what. Totally "Western" perspective.

However, I don't think it 's a wicked crime. I once saw a netizen write: Let those foreigners study Chinese culture well before filming! Don't waste our 5,000-year civilization! The words are bad, but knowing that this netizen is also for the purpose of promoting real Chinese culture, he is worried. However, it is for this purpose that I think "The Mummy" is a good shot. To put it bluntly, if you dub "The Great Emperor of Han Wu" in English, Englishize the programs of Yi Zhongtian and Yu Dan, or even directly Laomouzi and their Chinese-flavored films, and promote them in foreign countries together, it is estimated that there is no "Mummy". And "The Last Emperor", which is very funny in the eyes of the Chinese people, has an influence. No matter how many Confucius Institutes are established, and no matter how many Chinese departments in foreign universities, this film may not be easy for foreigners to be interested in. Of course, there is no denying that the above examples are fundamentally different from pure entertainment films, but this is exactly what I want to say. What makes Chinese culture more widely interested in Chinese culture does not depend on how accurately it spreads. Respect history, but to what extent it can arouse the interest of others. Of course, it would be better if it could be both entertaining and entertaining from an accurate historical perspective, but it's hard.

The foreigners I have met all came to China because of watching kung fu movies and fell in love with Chinese martial arts; because of playing the game of the Three Kingdoms, I learned about Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Zhuge Liang’s time, and they wanted to learn Chinese and see the history of the Three Kingdoms. What is it like; Japanese children will accidentally want to see what is going on in because of ; and so on. Movie entertainment only plays the role of opening a window for cultural exchanges. Nothing can have all the effects. Westerners think that the filming of is acceptable to Westerners. That's it. Obviously, they feel that the Chinese have strong anti-thunder ability, and they have not considered the pain of our nerves being stimulated, and the European and American markets are their main attack positions. Think about it, if this film is so historically made, will there really be so many foreigners watching it?

Ah Q can only think that the suffering of the Chinese people can really be exchanged for the European and American people's interest in a deeper understanding of Chinese culture. This is actually a very good effect of this film, only for foreigners.

However, this is just an entertainment film. First of all, please don't think about the above political and ethnic matters. Let's watch it for entertainment first. I dare to say that as long as you are not Chinese, when you watch this film, you will still feel that it is a Hollywood film. It really dares to fight, dare to fight, and dare to crook, and the scene emphasizes visuals.

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