The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 421 Chinese Emotional Resonance

A Chinese cinema in San Francisco.

In the plane, the female soldier with short hair and bloodshot mouth stared at the panicked pilot like a falcon: "Calm down! I'm Chinese soldier, start the engine! Now!"

The engine of the huge transport plane started slowly, and Zhang Yi and the deputy captain boarded the cargo hold of the plane with the wounded in pursuit. The plane rose from the ground amidst the gunfire of the chasing KB elements and flew into the distant sky.

The black curtain falls and the subtitles rise.

After a long while, the audience in the theater came back to their senses from the intense plot of the movie, and they heard someone applaud, and the applause became louder and louder.

"Huh—" Li Youchen was also a member of the applause, clapping and shouting to his side: "It's too exciting, I don't think it's inferior to "Spike II", it's enjoyable!"

My partner also felt the same: "The level of domestic movies is getting higher and higher. The quality of these two movies is very good. I think it is much better than "Between Life and Death". Hollywood has made more and more weird military themes in recent years. Not pretty."

"Hey, it's just obscenity. The movies made here are all anti-war, so you guys think it's weird. If military movies are not anti-war, then they can't be considered good movies. They are all brainwashing education. What about Spike and this movie? They are all such things, bragging about the public with fictional events..."

When a middle-aged man passed by Li Youchen and his companions, he couldn't help but sneer.

Li Youchen was not convinced: "Isn't "Between Life and Death" a fiction? It can still be shortlisted for Oscars, so what about fiction? Is it true that Huaguo evacuated overseas Chinese from YM? Has America evacuated overseas Chinese?"

"Between Life and Death" is a military action movie released at the end of last year. It was a blockbuster for the Olympic Games and was highly rated. It won many awards during the awards season. But it is an anti-K plan with high combat effectiveness.

Their target is a group of KB elements who threaten Western civilization, and a man named Emil is the most vicious among them.

Amir is cunning and cruel. He planned many K attacks behind the scenes, but managed to escape the capture of the world's law enforcement agencies. Now, he targets the anti-K base where the protagonist works.

The protagonist must be responsible for leading two old colleagues and two new members to plan to arrest Emil, carry out the anti-K mission of fighting wits and courage, and engage in a life-and-death contest.

The middle-aged man choked for a moment, but quickly found a reason: "Can it be the same? Although "Between Life and Death" is also fictional, the United States has been attacking KB elements around the world. It is only a fictional story, but the background is real. Can the country compare with the United States?

The United States does not evacuate overseas Chinese, because whether or not to return to the country is a person's freedom, and no one has the right to force it. Besides, didn't you read what was said on the Internet?The so-called evacuation of overseas Chinese has to pay [-] U.S. dollars per person, which is nothing more than filling their own pockets..."

"Do you also believe this kind of rumor? Even if Huaguo evacuates overseas Chinese, they will not accept RMB or US dollars?"

"Okay, okay." Seeing more and more people onlookers, the companion hurriedly dragged Li Youchen out of the theater.

There were promotional materials of "Operation Red Sea" everywhere outside the theater, Li Youchen snorted: "If you don't like it, you still come to the theater, you must be out of your mind."

The companion smiled wryly: "There is no way to convince each other about this kind of thing. No matter how much you argue, no matter how much you argue, there is no result. Why bother with his knowledge."

Li Youchen calmed down, and dragged his companion to suggest: "Let's do it again, it's considered a contribution to the box office."

Most of the audience coming and going around are yellow faces. This is a refurbished and upgraded AMC theater located in a Chinese community, so the main audience is also Chinese.

"OPERATION RED SEA" also has a lot of filming scenes, densely packed on the display screen, there can be more than 20 scenes at a glance.

It is said that the Chinese are infinitely divisible. Although Li Youchen has worked in the Bay Area for two years and is even applying for a green card, his political spectrum is still quite friendly to the motherland.

He came to the United States to study, and even continued to stay in the United States after getting his Ph.D., just for better career prospects, for a less introverted working environment, and for a better living environment with less pollution. After all, the United States is already a post-industrial country up.

It is even easier to advance and retreat, and it will be easier for children to study in famous American schools in the future. If Huaguo develops better, it will be easy for the next generation to return to China to develop, and it will be easy for children to go to famous domestic schools.

Whether it is emotion or interests, he does not reject the better development of Huaguo in the future. After all, his parents are above the middle class in China, and they are considered to be the beneficiaries of reform and development. There are also several properties.

There are actually quite a few people like him who have positive feelings towards Huaguo. Maybe their ages and reasons are different. In the past, many of Huaguo’s blockbuster films in the United States were supported by these people, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars, higher Not to mention millions of dollars.

Even Chinese people who don't like Hua on the political spectrum often watch movies from China in theaters.

The flesh can be moistened, but the culture is really not good.

Many people are physically in the United States and have great opinions on China, but they still use domestic social platforms to surf the Internet daily, and they have to do everything possible to watch movies and TV series on domestic video platforms.

The same goes for movies.

Hollywood rarely makes Chinese movies, and Asian protagonists are extremely rare. This makes many Chinese, regardless of their political views, need a sense of belonging.

A sense of belonging to culture, a sense of belonging to language.

It is not easy to let go of one's own cultural imprint and integrate into the mainstream, and even many second and third generations of Chinese may not be able to integrate into the mainstream smoothly.

So even if you don't like that country, you still can't live without the information, entertainment and virtual social atmosphere of that country.

Although there are many movies and TV series to watch in the United States, the skin color of the characters on the screen is different from yours. No matter how much you hate your origin and skin color, you still want to see faces with the same skin color as yourself in cultural works. Appear.

This is why as long as Hollywood releases a movie with Asian faces, it will resonate with the Asian ethnic group. Even if the movie is mediocre, you can get emotional resonance beyond the quality of the movie itself.

This kind of sentiment is not limited to Chinese, Asian, and any minority group will have this kind of resonance.

In the past, the movies that Chinese people watched regardless of their political views and groups were mainly from Star Master or Cheng Long, mainly Hong Kong and Taiwan movies.

And since a few years ago, more and more domestic films, even films with the main theme, have been presented to many Chinese.

These films are no longer about ancient costumes, about martial arts, and are no longer just set in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but set in mainland China. There are metropolises in mainland China, high-speed rail in mainland China, life in modern society in mainland China, and the themes are also modern. Science fiction and even military.

Although many Chinese are resistant, the quality of the film can surpass many things.

"Signal" and "Source Code" even broke into the North American mainstream market, amazed by the Hollywood media.

"Gravity" was even more shocking, and it gave Li Youchen an inexplicable sense of pride for the first time. "Spike II" and "Operation Red Sea" also brought him a similar feeling.

It's not that he substitutes the Chinese in Africa, but a kind of emotional resonance out of intuition.

It calms down the anxiety of being difficult to integrate into the mainstream and brings a sense of security.

In fact, this is also a kind of subtle cultural export. Li Youchen can feel that many Chinese people have turned a blind eye to domestic development from ignorance or disbelief, and then amazed after accepting it.

The country of Hua in "Signal", the country of Hua in "Source Code", the country of Hua in "Gravity" and "The Martian" are there, even if you want to avoid it, you can't turn a blind eye.

Li Youchen went abroad physically, but it doesn't mean that he is happy to see the image of the country he was born in here as backward and ignorant.

People from Tianzhu who came to the United States are very protective of their motherland. Some even have two or three generations, and even have never returned to Tianzhu in their entire lives, but they are still very proud of their ethnic group and motherland.

It is very different from the Chinese.

"Eh, Kung Fu Panda!?"

The companion clicked on Li Youchen and pointed to a poster showing a panda and a red panda in the traditional Chinese painting style doing kung fu moves.

Li Youchen was a little excited: "Is "Kung Fu Panda" going to be released?"

Although he seldom appears on the domestic Internet, the name of "Kung Fu Panda" is still known, and the American media has also reported that this is a work that broke the box office record of Huaguo animation films.

Moreover, it was produced by DreamWorks, and the trailer has been widely played on Youtube. Many netizens in the United States, not just the Chinese, are looking forward to it.

Monkey King does not have much influence in Europe and America, he is just a Monkey King.

Pandas are not the case. Many official media in Huaguo show pandas on YouTube channels, and this has attracted many fans.

Pandas are indeed a business card of Huaguo. Kung Fu has warmed up slightly after the release of "Matrix" last year. Although it cannot return to the craze of more than ten years ago, it is also another business card of Huaguo.

Combining the two business cards, there is considerable interest in "Kung Fu Panda" overseas, at least here in the United States.

"Kung Fu Panda" has already been screened in many countries in Asia. The reviews have been good and the box office has been very successful. However, it has not been released in North America for a long time. Li Youchen has been looking forward to it for a long time.

"I said, it was planned to be screened on a large scale!" Li Youchen took out his mobile phone and checked: "Two thousand theaters are opening, no wonder "Operation Red Sea" has been screened and "Panda" has not yet been released."

For Li Youchen, a Chinese with a sense of national and cultural pride, the appreciation and acceptance of symbols with Chinese national and national characteristics will make him have a stronger emotional resonance.

There is also a hint of surprise on the companion's face. In recent years, he has become more and more understanding of the excitement and pride on the faces of Japanese and Koreans when they see or mention the anime, idol groups, and kpop exported here from their motherland.

In this racial melting pot, any ethnic group, especially ethnic minorities, longs for a sense of belonging, and it is a sense of belonging that makes them proud.

Moreover, movies are much more advanced than any idol groups, and Chinese in the United States are inevitably substituted into the chain of contempt for American literature and art. Here, movies are the most advanced, and pop idols are below.

(End of this chapter)