Not long ago, Tang Wei won the Spring History Film Award and the Buri Film Award for the Korean movie "Three Small Awards" for " Determination to Break Up ".
Then she nominated for the "Three Major Movie Awards" in , and she was very popular for the moment.
Flowers in the wall, fragrant outside the wall, Tang Wei won this honor, and also put Chinese movie in embarrassment.
Tang Wei is destined to be a lonely product.
She married Korean director Kim Tae-yong , entered the Korean circle, and then met Korean director Park Chan-wook , and had the chance to usher in a second bloom.
and More mainland actresses can only continue to rewind in the seemingly prosperous mainland film market.
For Chinese actresses, the Korean film industry is so difficult to get involved, let alone Hollywood, which is envied by countless people.
Although now everyone is swearing Hollywood.
But it is undeniable that the production industry and creative culture there are still many filmmakers yearn for it.
However, over the past 10 years, our total box office has increased by 10 times, and the box office of a single film has increased by nearly 10 times.
However, the influence of domestic movies around the world is declining sharply, and it is even hard to find traces of Chinese actresses in Hollywood.
As An Li , Jackie Chan , and Zhang Yimou get older, Chinese people in Hollywood have the right to speak more and more lightly;
With the popularity of domestic main theme movies, this phenomenon will be even more serious. After all, you cannot make Americans fall in love with " Wolf Warrior ".
In the past, we "seemed" to have actresses who take both inside and outside and have excellent acting skills.
For example, Maggie .
She debuted as a Hong Kong lady in 1984 and retired from the film industry in 2004. In just 20 years, she changed from a vase to an actress' ceiling.
major European film festivals . She is the only Cannes and Berlin double film queen, and also serves as a judge of major international film festivals.
However, her influence is limited to the industry. In the hearts of ordinary European and American movie fans, the popularity of " Manshen " is actually not very high.
For example, Gong Li .
In her early years, she followed Zhang Yimou and made a lot of money in major film festivals in Europe. Later, she starred in "Miami Storm" in 2006.
is as strong as Gong " Gonghuang ". You have to wear loose clothes and untied your belt in the video and stage a fierce "hand-to-hand drama" with foreigners to get a little presence.
Another example is Michelle Yeoh .
She was born as a beauty pageant and grew up step by step into a female fighter star. She has starred in " Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon " and "007". She has truly established herself in Hollywood.
The starring of "The Voice of the Universe" this year has received praise from the industry, and she is also seen in "Avatar 2" at the end of the year.
But to be fair, Michelle Yeoh was born in Malaysian . She has lived in the United States for decades. Mandarin is said to be unsuccessful, and her success has little to do with China.
Finally, there is Zhang Ziyi.
Although she is the queen of the Three Golden Film Festival and is also called " International Chapter ", it is not easy for her to go to Hollywood.
I almost missed Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in my early years. Later, I followed Jackie Chan and had the opportunity to show my face in " Peak Moment 2".After
After she starred in " Memoirs of Geisha ", but she still played the servile Japanese geisha, but she was still nominated for the Golden Globe Award for the Best Actress in for this film.
009 Zhang Ziyi starred in "The Four Knights of the Apocalypse" .
This is also a Chinese actress who played the leading actress in a Hollywood-made movie.
, but this film has a very poor reputation. It is called the "Bankruptcy Version" of "Seven Deadly Sins" . There are only more than 9,000 people on Douban, and the score is only 5.2 points. As the leading female lead, Zhang Ziyi has very few roles.
Later, Zhang Ziyi also starred in a big production like "Godzilla", but they all appeared in supporting roles and had a very low sense of existence.
However, she was invited to become the Oscar awards guest twice, and she is also the last actress who "takes both inside and outside" among Chinese actresses.
A simple inventory of them will reveal that our family is too thin. There are so many ambition actresses in the past, but there are very few who really rush into Hollywood.
And even if you rush in, you will always hover on the edge of the mainstream. You can become a superstar with international influence like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
Now, the original poor family background is even worse.
Domestic actresses have shown their faces in Hollywood blockbusters, and they go to the red carpet and go to a foreign fashion magazine. They can even come back. It is a luxury to want to get another Zhang Ziyi out.
Why did the actress have serious dynasties after 12 years, and the next "Zhang Ziyi" can't come out for a long time? What is the reason behind
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We often mention what cultural influence we have, and we have also opened Confucius Institute in many places around the world, trying to spread Chinese culture.
But to be honest, there is only one that really influences Chinese culture in the world at present, that is Chinese Kung Fu .
In the film industry, whether it is a director or an actor, it is inseparable from "Chinese Kung Fu".
Given the simplest example.
that year Jia Zhangke went to France to attend the film festival. In "Jia Xiang", he mentioned a "interesting comparison" of that happened in France.
000, many Chinese-language films competed for Cannes, and these movies were also released in France.
"-1 " by Yang Dechang is considered to be the peak of Chinese films. At that time, the audience of in France exceeded 300,000 ;
Wang Kar-wai 's " Mood for Love " is recognized as the peak of art films, and has always dominated the top ten professional film rankings. At that time, the audience of in France exceeded 600,000 .
and Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a real Chinese kung fu film. Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Runfa flew around in the bamboo forest and made foreigners stunned. In France, the audience exceeded 1.8 million .
From these numbers, it can be seen simply and bluntly that no matter how philosophical or artistic Chinese movies are shot, foreigners like to watch Chinese Kung Fu the most.
Let’s first look at the director who is good at making a living in Hollywood.
Zhang Yimou has made so many art films, but what is truly remembered by Hollywood is " Hero ".
This movie is full of big names, , but in the international version of the poster, there is only Jet Li , because foreign audiences do not recognize anything Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, everyone recognizes Chinese Kung Fu's Jet Li.
And Lee has also filmed so many emotional films in Hollywood, but the one we talked about the most is the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Interestingly, the hero of this film was not Chow Yun-fat at the beginning, but Jet Li. It seems that as long as you know a little about Hollywood directors, you will know who the audience over there likes to see.
Let's look at it again, the male actor who is very good at it.
Bruce Lee, needless to say, the recognized kung fu superstar in Hollywood has now become a cultural symbol;
Jackie Chan, another kung fu superstar after Bruce Lee.
His kung fu comedy conquered Hollywood audiences and won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement Award , which is our Chinese light.
Jet Li, the Emperor of Kung Fu, has a worse overseas influence than Jackie Chan, but he is also recognized as the king of B-level films .
his "年后新官网 was rated as the best action movie by Times Magazine.
Donnie Yen , , after Jackie Chan and Jet Li, the last kung fu superstar .
He served as the action director of Hollywood movies in his early years. In recent years, he filmed "Ip Man" series and was followed by Hollywood. He starred in "Star Wars Legend: Rogue One", " Rapid Chase 4" . In the next Hollywood blockbuster "The Empire of Money" , he is the starring and producer.
In contrast, Chow Yun-fat is charming in China, but when he goes to Hollywood, there are too many tall and handsome male stars like him.
Even if you star in a blockbuster film like "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" , you were also pointed out by Wang Jing "Going to Hollywood is the biggest mistake."
Look at Stephen Chow , and it has no influence in the Chinese film industry. " The Westward Journey " even became a Harvard textbook, but once you went to Hollywood, no one took the nonsense, so naturally there was no influence.
You can see that "Chinese Kung Fu" is currently a Chinese filmmaker, and it is a key to open the international door.
It's a pity that it's not easy for an actress to get this key.
For it, Michelle Yeoh turned from a beauty pageant to a female fighter star, and she worked hard for decades before she squeezed into this door;
Zhang Ziyi for it, first starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and then participated in "Rush Hour 2", and also performed a stunning "sleeved dance" in " Ten-side Ambush ". It was only after
and "Chinese Kung Fu" were forcibly tied up, and it was recognized by Hollywood.
On the other hand, Maggie Cheung and Gong Li have no matter how outstanding their acting skills and strong aura, without the blessing of "Chinese Kung Fu", they will not be able to survive overseas.
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We put this set of standards on the current Chinese actresses, and we quickly found the disappearance of the "inside and outside" actresses, and the three "critical factors" of this problem.
First, from a general perspective, Kung Fu movies have become lonely in the entire Chinese-speaking area.
Except for Donnie Yen's "Ip Man" series, we have not seen a good kung fu movie for many years.
And in Hollywood, Jackie Chan is old, Jet Li is old, and Ang Lee is old, and . Without these high branches to reach, no matter how hard the wings of Chinese actresses are, they cannot fly out of the dense net woven by whites.
And the Chinese Kung Fu thing has been learned by foreigners. Now in Hollywood action scenes, Jackie Chan's juggling fights are everywhere (refer to "The Uncharted Sea" released this year).
It is a bit difficult to make surprisingly new.
Second, for Chinese actresses, the domestic market is already big enough.
Inner roll has died, and I still want to cut foot and walk in Hollywood. I am simply full and can’t think about it.
You make these earn 2.08 million yuan a day, pampered actresses, learn from Michelle Yeoh to transform into a dirt-like female fighter star, and make a stale uncertain future. This is simply a dream.
For example, he is also a Mu girl. After starring in " My Father and Mother ", Zhang Ziyi then went to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and then she had to fight from the bottom of her in Hollywood.
In those years, she started dating with foreigners. After forcing her to smile, she finally played small roles, and there were tears of sadness behind her.
and Zhou Dongyu are not as good as Zhang Ziyi in terms of acting skills, appearance, and awards, but the pay for the previous two years has risen to the first level in the circle.
You ask her to put down the great resources in China and go to Hollywood to show her smile to those white men.
Can she let go of this posture? Can foreigners appreciate her "fire girl" like her?
Things are neither pleased with either side, so why both sides have something to do?
Some people say that actresses today have no acting skills and lack charm, so they are not favored by Hollywood.
does not seem to me.
Does Gong Li have no acting skills? Does Maggie Cheung have no charm? How many American audiences know about them?
To put it bluntly, in the eyes of foreign audiences, many Chinese actors look the same. If you try your best to please the other side, you will be nothing in the end.
In the past, our own cake was too small, and we always looked at the big Hollywood cake. In order to get a bite, we tried our best.
Now our cake is enough to eat. Actress with pursuits . Tempering acting skills and winning several awards will also win both fame and fortune;
Actress without pursuits, buying hot searches, and making CPs will also be full of money. Those who can eat will not go out and look at the faces of foreigners.
And those actresses who bloom in the wall and smell outside the wall have precious courage, but objectively speaking, and their departure is more helpless.
For example, Tang Wei mentioned at the beginning, She is also Over the years, she failed repeatedly in mainland film and television dramas, and then she took a different approach to South Korea and had a second spring.
Of course, we must be clear-headed that Chinese films are now a false prosperity, which is another issue worth thinking about.
But even if it is a false prosperity, the actresses who are mixed in it cannot have too much motivation to pursue their dreams of Hollywood.
Finally, there are no works that have truly gone international in recent years.
On the one hand, it is the extinction of art films.
Art films with heavy themes lack the soil for survival, so today's art films want to escape scissors and go to the three major European film festivals, which is like taking a chestnut from the fire.
On the other hand, blockbusters like "Hero" are also difficult to reappear.
016, Zhang Yimou created a "combination of Chinese and Western" blockbuster " Great Wall ", but he returned in a defeat;
019, "Avengers 4" staged its final glory in the mainland, and then Marvel and China gradually drifted away;
020, " Mulan " filmed by Liu Yifei is essentially a shell of an oriental story, telling the core of Western stories, but the picky mainland audiences no longer take this set.
In this environment, many filmmakers transformed and no longer thought about the overseas market, but focused on the main theme movies in the mainland market.
Representative character is Wu Jing.
He should have taken over Donnie Yen's baton and continued to write the glory of kung fu films.
But Wu Jing chose to shoot main theme videos such as "Wolf Warrior", " Wandering Earth ", " King Kongchuan ", and " Changjin Lake ", , and immediately got a huge bonus and became the number one in the film industry.
In these movies, Americans are no longer saviors, and even become big villains, while we Chinese are the heroes who save the world.
These videos became popular, reflecting the psychology of this era to a certain extent:
In the past, we covered our heads and suffered too much loss. Now we are strong, and we would rather entertain ourselves for the prison than "super" to Hollywood.
Of course, it is undeniable that when the environment changes drastically, there are still some actresses who have tried to star in Hollywood movies.
For example, Li Bingbing . She collaborated with Jason Statham a few years ago in "Megalodon ". The response was good. The sequel has started filming, and Wu Jing is also invited to star in it.
But the reason behind this is not that Li Bingbing has such a strong box office appeal, but because she is leaning against the huge Chinese market.
You will understand when you look at the investors of "Megalodon".
is essentially a Chinese movie that is exported to domestic sales and is "wearing Hollywood skin".
The difference between Li Bingbing and Zhang Ziyi is that Zhang Ziyi went through so much hardship and knocked on the door of Hollywood, while Li Bingbing just stood at the door and wrote down "Go to this place".
Use basketball to make an analogy, Before Yao Ming went to NBA played basketball because he had the strength to draft No. 1 pick. Later Zhou Qi went to the NBA to play basketball, just because he was a Chinese.
Behind each example, the fact that Chinese movies and Hollywood are gradually drifting away.
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Nowadays, the disappearance of actresses can be "taken both inside and outside" is a tragedy in the Chinese film and television industry.
However, facing this situation, Brother Pi was mixed.
What I like is that our own film market is getting bigger and bigger, big enough to accommodate the increasingly expanding ambitions of actresses, and big enough to not be afraid of the swallowing and erosion of Hollywood movies;
What I worry about is that Hollywood still has the mainstream discourse power of movies after all. When we close the door and enjoy ourselves, we may be trapped in prison and keep our feet on. Several major mainstream film festivals in recent years are the best proof.
But in any case, if you want to change this situation, you must wait for the international situation to ease again in the overall environment, and you must wait for the Chinese Kung Fu movie to recover again in the small environment.
And actresses who have been fed by domestic entertainment also need a strong stimulation to allow them to open the door, step out of their comfort zone, and be truly seen by the world.
Text/Pipi Movie Editorial Department: Yiji
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