>Chinese (English-language movie) Fantasy Epic. >Most Expensive Chinese movie of all time at $135 million. >Directed by Zhang Yimou - considered China's greatest living director. >Starring Matt Damon, Willem Dafoe, Pedro Pascal
>Do the characters have superpowers? No, no one has superpowers in our film. I think there are too many superpowers in movies nowadays; people can level half a city with one finger, so any challenge feels easy. For this movie, I really want to switch it up and do something realistic.
the colorful wuxia is what I come to Zhang Yimou films for
Also any of his other movies good? Ive only seen hero, cgc, and hfd
John Phillips
>I really want to switch it up and do something realistic Like white men in ancient China
Noah Ross
I've been intrigued since I heard about this. Looking forward to it even though Chinese pandering is clear and present.
Hudson Peterson
chinks confirmed cucks
Mason Diaz
>ancient You dont know what that word means
Adrian Hernandez
I was getting interested in this until this crap >white men in ancient China
Sebastian Ross
matt look like witcher.
Ethan Jones
Asian movies with American actors suck.
Liam Gray
White is might White is right Disagree and I'll smite (You)
Alexander Peterson
hahahaha
Matthew Murphy
yes, the road home and raise the red lantern are essential but aren't wuxia but they definitely are colorful
Andrew Peterson
it's just going to be the same retarded chinese shit like red cliff, just a sci fi version of it
chinks have no clue how to make a decent movie
Hunter Foster
cringe
get out of my sight you pasty parasite
Hunter Harris
Is Curse of the Golden Flower any good? I heard it's more of a costume drama than a wu xia movie.
>Chinese pandering It's a Chinese movie, you dope. If anything, the presence of Matt Damon et al. is a sign of pandering to the West.
Angel Anderson
>Zhang Yimou >considered China's greatest living director
Did Wong Kar-Wai die or something? I'm pretty sure Tsai Ming-liang is still making moves too.
Hudson Wright
>set in 15th-century China which revolves around soldiers searching for gunpowder who come across the construction of the famous wall, and learn that its hurried construction isn’t just to keep out the Mongols, but mystical creatures as well. >Marco Polo (1254-1324) he wasn't even the first
Charles Baker
What's the point in making an English language movie unless you're an Anglophone nation?
Sure you may have the best CGI, the best set-dressing, the best director.... but the subtleties of our language, sarcasm, idioms etc simply won't translate for the Chinese population.
We are just too different. You might as well make the entire cast Western, instead it's a 50/50 weird mix of both. A western audience may love the english scenes, but then you have the strange Chinese man speaking pseudo-english, or the American actor switching to broken chinese.
Daniel Sanchez
>Ameritard liberals keep crying about whitewashing >Chinese literally cast Matt Damon in their own great wall movie
what now
also friendly reminder that this is the future of the movie industry
Jeremiah Price
Enjoy the mud In your putrid blood You genetic dud
Liam Hernandez
The only good movies chinks make are kung-fu movies.
Simple fact. They should stick to what they know best.
Just like America is only good for capeshit.
Austin Allen
>Starring Matt Damon, Willem Dafoe, Pedro Pascal What the fuck
Jacob Hill
>Fantasy epic set in China >starring white men >No one can't bitch about it since the director is chinese
Why are asians so based?
Jaxson Jackson
"No"
Isaiah Butler
>tfw my wifes great great son will experience the rise of african kinoma starring chinese actors and cgi whites (we are extinct in the future)
Sebastian Moore
It's obviously just a scam to cheat white people out their money, Donald Trump should ban it.
Hudson Scott
I'm done with this silly diction enjoy your inevitable extinction while your women enjoy darker cock you are doomed to be a little white cuck
Carter James
it's like the end of 8 mile, but both are white and wearing fedoras
Elijah Robinson
>matt damon I fucking hate this cunt can you stop making movies with him?
Angel Jackson
Your genitals are the source of your pride While your brothers commit needless homicide And the mothers of those murderous sons cried For those lost boys with no father to guide
Jeremiah Nguyen
The Last Nigga on Earth, starring Tom Hanks
Cameron Perez
White savior ridicule when?
Xavier Perry
POTTERY
Daniel Foster
For fucks sakes, this is why blacks and white liberals constantly try to push blacks into white roles, hollywood jews do it with whites so why can't they.
Fucking ridiculous,
Hunter Gutierrez
How the fuck did they do the casting?
Samuel Richardson
STOP WHITE-WASHI-
Ohh the Chinese are making this, that's fine then :')
Cooper Anderson
>set in northern song dynasty >a time where the songs fought literal barbarians from the north Sure Song was open to trade but why put a fucking white male in charge? I suppose he realized white male is better
Michael Robinson
>somehow brings it around to crying about black people >again
persecuted much?
Andrew Harris
It already happened in this thread. But it's coming. And they'd probably actually be right, maybe they'll stop citing The Last Samurai now that they have this though I doubt any of them have actually seen the movie.
Wyatt Allen
WHO GAVE YOU THE ORDAAAR
Ian Taylor
Lulz
Bentley Perry
Is this the mainland or Hong Kong making the movie?
And great. Let china build up their own film industry and box out the LCD bullshit hollywood pumps out for the chinabux.
Julian Torres
So, is Tumblr pissed off yet?
Eli Johnson
So will there be backlash for casting two whites and a spic in the leads or will they get away with it because the director is chinese?
William Barnes
I think they're being ironic and they're actually bitching about white people.
Zachary Jenkins
HOL' the fuk up! Why is dere no black men in dis pro-duction.....sheeeeeeeeeeit dis Raycis ass rice-eatin slant-eyed prawn-cracka lookin' gooky ass mu'fugga need a bullet in they ass
Lincoln Bailey
Yeah. They were a lot actually
Jesuits and their Military Advisors were making cannons for the Chinks during the 16th Century. Adam Schall Von Bell famously enough. There's a reason why certain Chinese guns were called "Folangqi Pao" (Ferenggi Gun. Ferenggi = Arabic for "Franks" = Western Europeans) and "Hongmao Pao" (Red Haired Barbarian Cannon = Western Europeans).
Earlier, """""""""""""white"""""""""""""" looking people like Uyghurs and whatever remains of the Indo-Iranian Genes in Central Asia showed up as mercenaries- usually Horse Archers hired for their expert knowledge of cavalry and the tribes in central asia.
The meme "China is closed off from the world hurrdurr" should stop really.
Ayden Howard
>Wong Kar-Wai >Chinese Yes, you missed something.
William Ortiz
reddit here, reddit is mad, brought up the last samurai 10,000 times
Nathaniel Richardson
I'm not bitching about white people. I'm bitching about Hollywood jews casting whites in chinese roles so that blacks and liberals have justification to push blacks into white roles.
Jaxson Walker
Oh alright then, I guess you're just a crazy person then.
Jeremiah White
Chinese adore whites. It's literally the opposite of niggers. They willingly put us on a pedestal, my uncle has a banking job there and they treat him like royalty and offer him perks that native Chinese don't get.
Whether the native Chinese are okay with this I honestly don't know, but the management & middle-class generally love white people, they aspire to be white. But the mainlanders hold them back by shitting in the street.
Connor Moore
Is chinese fantasy epic the new cape shit?
Luis Lewis
There were blacks too in China. Mostly as exotic slaves for some General/Scholar Bureaucrat to decorate his house with and point out to guests saying LOOK HOW BLACK THIS MAN IS, IM SO FUCKING RICH.
There's a Legend of Kunlun the Slave, but he's Negrito I think. Which is not Afro-Black.
Robert Wood
Well what would you get mad about?
That it's racist against Chinese people?
That seems like a weak argument given that the movie is produced by the Chinese
Henry Cooper
>Guns are called 'POW'
Eli Gray
they're not casting white people in asian roles they are white roles.
Asher Scott
>"China is closed off from the world hurrdurr" should stop really. China has always been very insular and xenophobic, I mean that just asian culture in general. That being said china is fucking huge and squats in the middle of the largest continent, with a long history of driving transcontinental trade when europeans still worried about falling off the edge of the map.
Liam Thompson
kek, I once saw a video of some white faggot claiming nigger-speak is an intelligent dialect of American english. Das rite.
Cooper Richardson
>every medieval or ancient rome movie is chock full of niggers no one bats an eye
>some chink puts a white guy into his chink movie everyone goes insane
Sebastian Lopez
>Whether the native Chinese are okay with this I honestly don't know Checked.
China has had a pretty rigid class structure for most of its history. There is an availability for upward mobility, but uts still an institution so ingrained in the culture even communism couldn't wipe it out entirely.
David Foster
>when europeans still worried about falling off the edge of the map. the roman empire traded with the chinese, reddit
Oliver Nguyen
thats pretty gud
Julian Evans
>The Great Wall Judging from the trailer this film pre-dates the age of the canon, it's all arrows and magic and shit.
Matt Damon won't be playing a Uyghur he will be playing a "European"
Leo Garcia
Cannons are. Because Cannons are Hupao (Literally: Fire Catapult)
Small arms are Huqiang (Fire Spears) since when they invented it, the first firearms in China were attached to Spears.
John Parker
Looks like this discourse I won Careful you don't see the end of a gun Held by none other Than a tar-colored brother
William Campbell
Chinese assimilates words by either onomatopoeia, or they just chink up the foreign word. Lemon is ling-mon, coffee is ke-fei, etc.
John Wilson
>when europeans still worried about falling off the edge of the map.
europeans had to teach the chinese that the world isn't flat you idiot
This only further confirms the white worship that goes on in Asia.
Cooper Lopez
Whatchya gonna do With skin colored like poo Could barely think through A simple sneeze- achoo
Juan Young
Yeah, they taught them after they found out themselves.
Christopher Williams
>China has always been very insular Arguably >Xenophobic Arguably as well Chinese "barbarism" doesnt automatically mean you are straight up inferior. Just that you are outside Tianxia ("All Under Heaven a.k.a Chinese Empire") which is the height of civilization to them. They ranked barbarians as enlightened and civilized (i.e. Fulin/Daqin = Rome) or Savage (i.e. Central Asians like Turks or Mongols. Tribal Nignogs in Taiwan/Philippines). You are then assigned a rank in Chinese diplomatic talk recognized either as a "Wangguo" (Kingdom = Civilized), or a plain directional Demonym (Xirong = Western Barbarian. Nanman = Southern Barbarian. Dongwu = Eastern barbarian, Beidi = Northern Barbarian) and be treated with contempt. (i.e. Japan during the Pirate Raids of the 1400s).
Josiah Fisher
WHO ORDERED THE CODE RED?
Isaiah Smith
>it's a white male saves china episode
hmm
Luke Walker
Chink Flat Earth theory is different.
AFAIK some Chink Scholars thought it ran off forever into ever more ever distant lands. Like as if the whole universe really is Sky-Earth-Man.
Brody Harris
...
Henry King
he looks kinda chinese
Tyler Cooper
I lived in asia for years in the 90s. Its hard to express it without exaggerating, they're quite hospitable, but they all maintain the idea that their kind of asian is objectively the best one. Asians are, as a whole, pretty pragmatic, so it doesn't hang them up, but you're still a big nosed waiguo to them.
Ayden Russell
Go away mainland scum
Lincoln Campbell
>we want Trump audienc Huh
Angel Lee
im ready for chinkino
Angel Carter
and they will always be yellow slit-eyed chinks to us, so all is good.
Benjamin Scott
That's a really nice shade of purple.
Thomas Sanchez
I was talking of History.
But if you want more recent history then I can tell you that as a Flip, the Chinese do put foreigners in ranks. From "guys we should respect" (whites) to "Lel, nignogs" (blacks, us here in Southeast Asia).
Other East Asians occupy weird ambivalent views in China. Koreans and Japanese are respected, but at the same time also loathed due to historical issues. More so in Japan's case than Korea's,
NK is treated as Nigger-Tier Refugees.
Alexander Wood
>Europeans already in contact and trade with China during the time period it's based on >Matt Damon's character has been European from day 1 >Director is Chinese
>Libtards in charge of knowing what "whitewashing" is
And the Chinese clearly don't give a fuck about seeing a white man on screen given how huge the market is over there.
Christian Garcia
These are probably the same people who would cheer at the sight of a black James Bond.
Ryder Ward
>Set in Medieval China >Starring Matt Damon, Willem Dafoe, Pedro Pascal How the fuck does that work
Luke Carter
>white Matt Damon
yeah I know what he means, he should totally be nigger Matt Damon and wear a blackface instead.
Thomas Bell
>cheer at
you mean scream about how Idris Elba MUST be the next bond?
Zachary Martin
I don't know, maybe it will maybe it won't as we don't know shit about the film at all nor is it based on some other original work.
Luis Howard
To be fair, of course they would be. They don't want Black Bond because they think he's a good actor, they want him because they want to make a political statement. Same reason they don't want White guys in China because that too is a political statement. He already played a Mexican so why not.
Jonathan Morgan
>something realistic
has he actually looked at what kind of movie he is making? other then that hypocrite line the movie looks great. I wonder what reason they are going to give for all the white people in it however. Maybe they are going to be part of a roman expedition?
anyway looking forward to it. it´s going to be interesting to see Chinas take on LotR especially since China tends to do things big
Connor Powell
the butthurt is real with the libs, watch how this movie will fucking cash in thanks to chinese audiences
Oliver Jackson
love the costumes
now the monsters only have too look good as well and I´m set
Andrew Bailey
Learn to history you faggots. REEE! Foreign trade and diplomacy did not a completely novel concept. >What is the silk road >what is spice trades since the early renaissance.
Ian Nelson
Chinese here
We already tried the exact same shit with Adrian brody & John Cusac
The movie might do ok domestically, but Chinese script writing is garbage.
The dialogue is always laughably bad and there's always some "pro communist party" lines randomly thrown in that sound completely out of place.
Hunter Perez
>The dialogue is always laughably bad and there's always some "pro communist party" lines randomly thrown in that sound completely out of place.
"WE'RE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM!!!!**" "** but we also understand the importance of obeying our authoritarian leaders because they know better."
John Allen
pretty much all chink big-budget films are the same
its historical, big war, shitty drama-romance repeat ad infininum