Chinese Cinema , When will a big Chinese film become hit in NA?

[bleedblue1223]

Cultural and language are barriers to why movies from China aren't a big hit in North America just like why they aren't a big hit in any other county outside of China.

Racism shouldn't be listed IMO because that has very little if anything to do with it. Also it shows a sign of racism in itself by saying certain groups of people are racist people just because they don't like movies made from China or any other country with language and cultural differences. Racism as a excuse for things is too easy and too lazy as a excuse for things especially nowadays.

Yeah, it shouldn't be a shocker that most people don't seek out movies in a language that they do not speak. It's also not really up to the consumers at this point, corporate executives have to go out on a limb and release the movie in mass and market the movies.

 

[Stylizer1]

Anyone see Yip Man 4? Chinese movie filmed in America. The guy who plays Bruce Lee is really good.

The American depiction is hilarious.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

Anyone see Yip Man 4? Chinese movie filmed in America. The guy who plays Bruce Lee is really good.

The American depiction is hilarious.

Damn, I stopped at the second, knew of the third's existence and now there are four of them? Learn something new everyday.

 

[Stylizer1]

Damn, I stopped at the second, knew of the third's existence and now there are four of them? Learn something new everyday.

Never saw the others except I just watched the fight scene with Mike Tyson. I think it was #3.

 

[DoyleG]

Kung Fu Hustle made 100mil back in 2004. And yeah Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon made 200mil when it came out here. Successful Chinese movies can happen. It just really depends on what the movie is. Obviously, Americans aren't going to be as familiar with Chinese culture and yeah, subtitle tends to be a barrier.

You used Hong Kong films as an example (The latter had Taiwanese involvement). Much harder to really get those through if they were pure Chinese productions. One of the ways Hong Kong tried to capitalize on Jackie Chan's rise after Rumble in the Bronx (an edited Hong Kong release) was to release some previous films after some editing (Supercop has been released years before as part of the Poilce Story series. Ironically, it wasn't long after Rumble in the Bronx came out did the Hong Kong movie industry go into decline.

Operation Red Sea and the Wolf Warrior films tied very much tied to the concept of "The Great PLA fighting on behalf of the Chinese people" against evil. The latter has the "evil" as corrupt Americans while the former could be seen as a way to justify the Chinese responses to Islamic terror. The restriction of foreign films coming into China and requirements to promote Chinese culture tend to work in their advantage.