xi's moments
Home | Forum Trends

How foreigners view Chinese movies

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-05-21 16:33

Aistrodositu (Germany)

My points would be: the marketing budget of US movies is likely higher than the budget of most non-US movies. English is still the lingua franca.

Information about US or British movies is readily available through sources like the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound. I find it hard to find information about Chinese movies and buy them, at least with English subtitles, at a reasonable price. Some improvements could be: more L2 speakers of Chinese, raised visibility for Chinese movies through an English publication akin to Sight and Sound that separates the wheat from the chaff, make movies available via streaming platforms more aggressively.

That said, there are a lot of Chinese movies I would not consider my cup of tea: too much magic, wuxia, etc. But that's up to the audience to decide. I don't know enough Chinese movies to say that on average their quality is much worse than standard US fare. But you don't know what you don't know.

Movie poster of Spider-Man: Homecoming. The Third Floor, the world's leading visualization studio, participated in the previsualization of production for a number of blockbusters, including Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Wonder Woman. [Photo/ IC]
|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next   >>|
Global Edition
BACK TO THE TOP
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349