The role of art films should be to stand on the cusp of public opinion, on the one hand, to reflect, on the other hand, to promote the development of social atmosphere in a good direction. But looking at the American art film market, there are very few films about Chinese. Except for a few Chinese directors such as Wang Ying and Ang Lee who have made several films describing the living conditions of Chinese people in the United States, even Chinese filmmakers who are active in Hollywood today rarely set foot in this topic. This is Hollywood's attitude towards Chinese: on the one hand, commercial blockbusters still continue the old stereotype of Chinese, adding some elements of China in their eyes on the surface to please the China market; On the other hand, without filmmakers to make films about China people and China culture, the American concept will not change.

But can you blame the Americans? You let people promote our culture in your own country. Do you think Americans are Bethune? The key problem is that our own movies are really not good. India has its Bollywood, and it still produces films with Indian characteristics with the second output in the world. Japanese and Korean films have developed rapidly, not only developing their own film industry, but also the production level has been in line with international standards. Even Korean movies have been frequently remaked by Hollywood in recent years (such as old boys). But look at the film industry in China. What movies have been popular in recent years? Thailand, which is widely praised and praised in China, is a second-rate production that plagiarizes Hollywood genre films. In my opinion, it is not even as good as Private Zhang Ga; "Tiny Times" is said to be a slide show movie with no standard. The total box office in North China is only $20,000 ... The filmmakers seem to have lost their cultural character, thinking ability and social responsibility. On the other hand, the mercenary atmosphere has swept the society, and art films have no room for survival. Due to various factors, the international cultural image has never been improved.

In fact, to put it bluntly, on the one hand, China people expect Americans to look up to themselves, but on the other hand, they look down on themselves. Most of the first generation immigrants in the United States did not have the concept of racial equality. Almost everyone who has just arrived in China is eager to "integrate into the mainstream American society". What they call the mainstream society, especially the white society in the United States, China people look down on people of color other than whites, and even look down on other Asians other than China people. Your discrimination against another race hides your inferiority in front of another race. This is why many people in China are eager to integrate into the so-called mainstream white society in the United States. Everyone is talking about the advertisement placement of Transformers 4, but the merchants are not stupid. It is because of China people's superstition of foreign culture that they spend a lot of money for a few seconds in Hollywood blockbusters! The same thing happened in America. In recent years, the advertising industry in the United States-different from movies-has begun to show more and more Asian faces. There is a simple reason. Merchants hope to use these familiar faces to attract more and more rich people in China to spend.

The deeper reason why China people despise their own nation is their contempt for their own culture. In recent years, most of the new immigrants who went to the United States to study and work are from science and engineering, and their cultural literacy has been relatively weak. Their descendants often become "American-born China people": they have yellow skin outside, but the culture of China has completely disappeared. But in contrast to other ethnic minorities, I rarely see Mexicans who can't speak Spanish, even the second and third generation immigrants; Black Americans have their own culture, and even the English they use is a variant called "African-American English", which is different from American English in grammar and pronunciation. However, China immigrants have completely lost their cultural origin in the process of reproduction from generation to generation, and even China people have alienated their own culture. Who do you expect to promote?

China filmmakers always seem to be obsessed with becoming famous through international film festivals and international awards, which also reflects their contempt for their own culture. Only truly pure national culture can attract foreigners. Ang Lee's success is due to the oriental perspective and the charm of oriental traditional culture in his films, which is exactly what Hollywood needs. The success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon attracted domestic filmmakers to imitate it. In the following years, costume dramas continued. To put it bluntly, it can only be said that there is no cultural backbone, and it is ineffective to learn from others. So why should we care so much about how Hollywood portrays China people?

Why do you care if Li Bingbing has lines in Transformers 4? Why do we China people, an ancient country with a profound culture like mellow wine, keep abandoning our own cultural traditions? If China's films can be developed and China's films can be better-looking and deeper, then China's image in the eyes of Americans will naturally change.