The most popular film in Justin’s favourite country, is not a Hollywood production. Its a propaganda film that shows brave Chinese troops defeating the Americans in Korea. However the BBC explains that Hollywood is working hard to make films acceptable to Chinese authorities.
The CCP certainly do not care if they trample anyone’s toes.
I am very selective about movies now. Any typical Hollycrap is avoided.
Back when Encore Avenue was still a movie channel on cable, I saw some of the more recently produced Hollywood movies. I’m glad I didn’t pay the money and spend the time to see them in a theatre.
By the way, I keep finding a lot of old Hollywood gems on YouTube, the kind of stuff I used to watch as late-night or early afternoon movies while I was growing up.
Also a lot on http://www.archive.org .
Plus millions of books, manuals, music, etc, etc.
Yup.
Kapyong, Chicom mofos! Make a film of that!
Suggested reading: The Battle of Kapyong (Sp.?)
An excellent read about the Canadian efforts in Korea during the Korean War. They were tasked with retaining a hill near Seoul and lost 2 people if I recall, with a minimal number of wounded. The Chinese got the Hell beat out of them! No clear numbers but the Chinese casualties numbered in the hundreds.
I guess that is why we are training the Sons-of-Bs now, eh!
I guess that is why we are training the Sons-of-Bs now, eh!
I think Dear Leader would call it “truth and reconciliation”.
Poor Hollywood. They’ve figured out they’re dispensable too.
Without the obligations imposed by wokeness, Chinese movie studios can get on with telling a good story where Han Chinese people are the heroes, and that they know Han audiences will like.
(Is the story true?
Does it matter?
It never did in Tinseltown, where screenwriters never tired of depicting the plain people of America as children, imbeciles or racists.)
My 91yo father on occasion relates Korean War stories from his short time there in 1951 (before he was the recipient of bunch of shrapnel courtesy of a ChiCom shell). Heard a new story a couple months ago wherein he indicated his platoon was advancing north, retaking ground lost to the Chinese, and they came upon a farmstead. Apparently the retreating Chinese had stuffed a whole bunch of dead American GIs down the farm’s well.
**** the CCP.
**** Castro’s love child.
And Let’s Go Brandon.
Let’s go Trevor
For Chinese communists and socialist, communists everywhere it’s easy to do.
Although nobody will believe this, while going to school in a country run by communists, if a propaganda movie did not do well in the theaters, which thing, as you can imagine happened all the time, the students of all levels of school, up to grade 11 had to, by order, chip in a crown to go and see the movie propaganda. Not your choice, you had to ask your parents to supply the coin and see the movie. Compulsory.
When you think about it, not much different from the schools in this country making the school kids to watch Gore’s bullshit and recently probably something about white guilt, though here it’s ‘free’.
Yeah, you got 1billion+ Chinese, its rather easy to shuffle them off to a movie, any movie and make it number 1.
Just like that.
was the Battle of the Injim River battle shown? The Northumberland Fusiliers and their VC Hero and the Glorious Glosters, recipient the congressional medal of honour award are thankful of the opportunity of bravery given to them by the American infantry’s withdrawal overnight. The older Koreans remember.
Talking of movies, this is an early Lee Van Cleef; great little movie starring Anthony Quinn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXdbHPuca_Y Maybe Hollywood could remake it for the Chinese market.
Speaking of movies – Old Henry is a worth your time to watch.
The Chinese fought like disorganized cowards for the most part. Half-assed and slipshod like everything they do, relying on sheer numbers to make up for their shortcomings in leadership.
Without weapons.
Mao did that to his own troops and they STILL defended him.
China doesn’t own Korea and if carpet-bombing is what it takes to get China to remember that, well …