That is quite an insightful comment here on China Daily, linking nicely to my “Chinese Box Office Wonders” project:
“it is the typical Hollywood way of story-telling that is absorbed by these Chinese films. And that secret is called genre films. These films are commercial in nature; they conform to strict formulae in narrative, which Chinese filmmakers had always ignored or disdained.”
Full text by Raymond Zhou at Fast forward with film |X – Ray |chinadaily.com.cn.
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