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The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)

alicefell 1 points 2 years ago.

So this movie is a “state movie, towing the party line?”

I was just reading on the site “What’s on Weibo” — I have never visited this site and found it through surfing news — and found an article by Manya Koetse, entitled “The Unforgotten Victory:” “Why ‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’ “Is One of China’s Biggest Films Yet, NOV 4, 2021)” (Whew! The site asks that you properly acknowledge site/author when quoting :-))

The film: “…became the highest-grossing film anywhere in the world during the first weekend of October, beating the much-anticipated James Bond movie No Time to Die.” And “it became an unprecedented box office hit after it premiered on September 30, just one day before the celebration of the National Day of the People’s Republic of China.”

You might be interested in this article.

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coffeeninja 1 points 2 years ago*.

I read the article. Several articles, in fact and I saw the movie a few days after release. Since I speak passable Mandarin, being unsubbed was not much of a problem. The fact is really, whenever such a movie is due to release, the government minimizes the release movies that might be threatening their box office sales. There are mostly no competing (or foreign) blockbusters during the run of zhuxuanlu. That was also the reason for the roaring success of ‘1921’ earlier this year, the movie glorifying the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. There simply was nothing else to watch in the theaters. But what am I arguing here, you want to like this stuff because you lot hate Hollywood and liberals…

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