In a European and American dating statistics, Asian men are at the bottom of the ranking of the best romantic partners in Europe and America, while Asian women are ranked first and are deeply loved by European and American men. Before the process of dating, most people will have a certain "imagination" of TA and have certain aesthetic expectations. And this kind of imagination and aesthetics naturally comes from various film and television works and graphic magazines.
Two of the most popular films in the United States recently happened to feature Asian women as the protagonists. A "Crazy Rich Asians" was a dark horse and swept the North American box office. Unexpectedly, a female-oriented romance film actually won both the box office and word of mouth.
Its story tells the love entanglement between a thoroughly Americanized Asian white-collar girl and the second generation of Asia's top rich. In the film, the exotic style of Asia and the wealthy family beyond imagination make European and American movie fans amazed.
If "Crazy Rich Asians" is Hollywood's use of the public's imagination of exotic places to attract attention, another recent hit film "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" (To All the Boys I've Loved Before) Boys I've Loved Before), is the product of the era of the combination of big data and Chinese female writers.
The heroine of "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" is a Chinese-American high school girl. The film cleverly transplanted scenes familiar to Asian audiences to American campuses, and screened out the plot events that most resonated with the audience through big data analysis. As soon as the film came out, it immediately received a good review.
From the black ideology of "Black Panther", the LGBT group resistance of "Love, Simon", to this "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" and the aforementioned "Crazy Rich Asians", we can see the mainstream Culture's renewed attention and cultural writing for marginalized groups.
NETFLIX, a network streaming film and television company that started to stick to the original, naturally won't miss this pop culture climax. "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" won the copyright of the original novel and adapted it into a movie to show its importance. The author Jenny Han is an Asian girl herself, and many of the experiences in the novel are his own personal experience.
In fact, as early as 2014, there was a company that wanted to buy the copyright and adapt it into a movie. When there was a request, it was to replace the heroine with an American and process it into an American campus youth film. Jenny Han directly refused, because this story belonging to an Asian girl and herself must be played by a suitable heroine to represent everything. After NETFLIX won the copyright, Lana Condor, a Vietnamese-born girl, was invited to play the heroine in the film.
Born in 1996, she and her younger brother Arthur were adopted by an American couple from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City in 1997. He then grew up and educated in California, USA. It is more suitable for her to play Lara Jean, a girl with some Asian cultural personality in the film.
"To All the Boys I've Loved Before" has a very funny opening, the romantic life of Asian high school girls in the American campus, the little love between Asian girls and American boys, plus some feminism, political correctness Movie lace like that is enough to attract attention before it starts airing. After all, not many American boys can really understand the complex hearts of little Asian girls.
It's no wonder that there is no writer named "Qiong Yao" in the United States, who provides love experience for men and women of all ages in advance. NETFLIX, who is well versed in this way, played Lend the Dead. Look, the film shows the oriental characteristics of the heroine Lara Jean as soon as it comes up: she loves fantasy and likes to project the plot of the novel into her own romantic story. This is the oriental girl Huaichun. Then, a pillow was thrown, and the way of waking up from a dream was undoubtedly a Western youth-style teasing.
Lara Jean's family members are the fusion of East and West. The mother of Asian descent died unexpectedly when Lara Jean was very young, the middle-class, white father of the doctor pulled three daughters to grow up alone. Xueba's sister is about to go to college in Scotland, Lara Jean loses her sister's protection, and her eccentric sister is about to turn Lara Jean's life around.
The "open" father contributed to her emotional life, and had the typical thinking and behavior characteristics of Western parents.
Lara Jean has a plain appearance and has only a few girlfriends at school. She is a typical campus invisible person. Like oriental girls, she likes to write love letters, but she is shy only by writing love letters to satisfy her emotions. She does not want to realize her feelings.
Because she is afraid of losing:
Because the more people you let into your life, the more people will be able to leave. If this is not true, I have lost no one.
Therefore, she never really threw herself into a relationship, but she did write 5 love letters to the person she had a crush on.
The most embarrassing thing is that the boy she cares about the most is currently her sister's boyfriend, her neighbor is a childhood sweetheart Josie, her first kiss was dedicated to her former best friend, and she is currently a "canteen traffic-class character" on campus, sports student Pete. , Lara Jean's quiet and gloomy campus life has been turned upside down in one day, when her sister affixed stamps to her 5 love letters and sent them out one after another.
Of the five confessions, one had already become her best friend because of her orientation problem; two of them had nothing to do with each other for the time being; but she cared about her the most, and had a head-on encounter with her on the campus playground with Pete and Josie who cared about her. In order to hide her sincerity, Lara Jean fell to the ground and kissed Pete, and Josie had to leave quietly.
Pitt just broke up with his girlfriend, so the two made a contract, pretended to be in love, and achieved their goals.
The contract is fake, but the feelings are real. Lara Jean and Pete 'fake it for real' after months of dating
Pete's ex-girlfriend was full of jealousy, and Josie's jealousy swelled. For a time, Lara Jean became the focus of the campus, and because of the winter campus activities, the couple's mandarin ducks playing in the water was put on the Internet as an erotic video.
With her sister's early return, Josie and Pete had constant entanglements with her, the relationship was still chaotic, and she kept cutting.
Introverted and fanciful Lara Jean must step out of her own safety zone and take the initiative to face waves of challenges. The typical American growth line pushes the story to the climax at the end. Although it is an American-style emotional entanglement, because of Lara Jean's special existence, Asian audiences also have a strong empathy, as if watching an Asian school drama.
Then a wonderful scene happened. Western audiences saw the introvertedness and character traits of Orientals, and Oriental audiences saw the American campus life of Asian girls in the West.
This is the main reason for the popularity of "To All the Boys I've Loved Before". Besides, youth love is a common theme of mankind and one of the topics that will never go out of style. "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" has a precise calculation formula. After calculation through narrative routines, supplemented by qualified execution, it has created its ultimate success.
It's worth noting, however, that both "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" and "Crazy Rich Asians" tell the story of a girl who is "completely" Westernized, completely lost of colonial or immigrant culture. Residues, just with oriental faces and skin tones, a lot of behavior, and even the way of thinking is westernized.
"Crazy Rich Asians" relies on the representation of eastern regional culture, "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" uses the thinking of eastern women,
This is only a superficial breakthrough, and it cannot fully represent the reality of the East.
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