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NT Times: "Crazy Rich Asians" isn't likely to receive good audience response in China
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/world/asia/crazy-rich-asians-china.html
Even if the film were to be released in China, it would not necessarily be guaranteed success. Among the relatively few Chinese who appear to have had a chance to see it outside the country, the response so far has been lukewarm.
Among the relatively few Chinese who appear to have had a chance to see it outside the country, the response so far has been lukewarm.
The movie had a rating of seven out of 10 stars based on more than 4,600 reviews on Douban, a Chinese website (compared to an audience approval score of 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes). One Douban reviewer compared the viewing experience to the pleasant surprise of “finding a decent dish in a popular American Chinatown restaurant.” Another panned it, calling the movie “crazy stereotypical.”
Dong Ming, a Shanghai film critic, said: “Maybe the content of the film wouldn’t get censored but it’s a question of whether the film would even be popular in China.”
“Chinese people really dislike this kind of westernized Chinese culture,” he added, comparing the movie to American Chinese food staples like General Tso’s chicken and fortune cookies. “The flavor is not authentic.”
The stark contrast speaks to the wide gap between the mainland Chinese experience and the Chinese diaspora experience — and in particular, the experience of ethnic Chinese communities who are minority populations in Western countries.
NT Times: "Crazy Rich Asians" isn't likely to receive good audience response in China Sep 07, 08:19
Is it the Crazy part? Is the Rich part? Is it the Asians part? {nm} Sep 07, 08:35
Singapore strikes me as a lot like Florida to the Cubans who fled Castro's revolution. {nm} Sep 07, 10:09
The movie did seem very calibrated to American tastes. {nm} Sep 07, 15:03