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Pandering to Chinese market


It's a thing for sure in the bigger Hollywood films, 2nd biggest movie market soon to be the biggest by most accounts. Plus they only allow 34 foreign movies in a year, so production houses will do alot to get that golden ticket so to speak. I think the worst of it in the film was the talked about chip stealing, card throwing scene imo, it seemed they dragged it out, just to give as much screen time to the diligent and tough Chinese guards to search them like 3 times a piece.

The director Jon Chu while US born, is of Chinese descent and his father is a famous Chinese chef. I don't consider that to be a direct pander, but his only big budget experience was GI Joe 2, another movie that was tooled to maximize overseas profits, and I do think it helped to get them on the list of 34. Another obvious sign is characters given odd emphasis played by people with little to no acting experience usually a pop stars, like Jay Chou a Taiwanese musician. Often times they will be given even more screen time in overseas cuts.

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Well pandering is natural given it is a huge market. I mean it would be illogical to make all the cast Chinese and neglect the domestic market unless it was specifically a Chinese movie as that would deter domestic audiences. And it worked, the China box office was more than the US. They made back the budget in China alone which assures it another installment.

Jay Chou has acting experience. He's been in 6 or more films, depending on whether you count his cameos. It's just he has limited facial expressions as one of his teachers said. A director who worked with him also said he wouldn't be successful in movies due to his personality. He's a stiff actor yet he is a big star in south east Asia. They are actually not only making a sequel to part 2 but also making a spin off centred around Jay Chou with a predominantly chinese cast!

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" Plus they only allow 34 foreign movies in a year"

whatnow? anyone verify that?
sounds made up to me

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Show me an old post of yours, where a white man got a job, maybe a job he didn't seem qualified for, and you called it "pandering". Because movie studios can pander to the white, straight, male, American-born market too, they do it so often that some people take it for granted, and think it's "normal" and not "pandering"!

Because if you're just crying "pandering" when you see people who aren't white, straight, or male getting jobs... you know what that makes you.

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