..the place I go for most of my animation news. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Easy enough, the movie is about leaving ones meager home and becoming head of a HUGE estate, complete with castle and servants.
What Chinese person doesnt want these things? Every rich Chinese person in Hong Kong basically lives that way
Not trying to cruely say that every Chinese person is a broke ass money grubber. Just saying there were some books in the early 1900's in the US called "Ragged Dick" it was all about a boy going from rags to riches because he worked hard and lived by a strict set of morals. Invaritably his making hard decisions led him to his rich full life. The books were VERY popular in their time.
Well I am rambling so here some more ramblage. Chinese people really dont care THAT much for super complex plots or developed original characters. Garfield is still a popular icon especially in Mainland China. This isnt to say that Chinese film makers do not make films that are VERY well acted, have engaging plots, or deep characters. But it does mean that if theres a big time action movie with Arnold in it, Chinese people love it. They don't pick up on his bad acting, they just love that he does awesome things.
Lots of people here liked Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, it got average reviews in China, it was old news to them. Did you know most of them laughed whenever Michelle Yeoh spoke her lines, because her Chinese is really bad, (She doesnt speak it, she had to be prompted).
Goes both ways I suppose, we think Garfield is old news, and not very clever, Chinese people like the idea of getting out of the country and finding prosperity.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Maybe the movie had a really good viral marketing scheme in China.
"Somebody better do something about this m#$#@!!$@$# cat in the m!@$@#$~%@~! palace!"
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Does Garfield qualify as animated? I thought it was live action with a CGI Garfield?
If thats the case, wouldn't LOTR, King Kong, etc, be considered Animated?
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
King Kong and Lord of the Rings both used an actual actor with sophisticated "performance capture" technology in order to create Kong & Gollum's performance. In fact, it was the same actor, Andy Serkis! It was a sophisticated live action/CGI FX hybrid, not traditional animation.
Neither Garfield film (to my knowledge) did something similar with Bill Murray and the big fat cat...so both get listed on the IMDB under the "animated" tag.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
quote:Originally posted by Storm Saxon: Maybe the movie had a really good viral marketing scheme in China.
As the people in the original blog thread speculated, I'm wondering if some Fox marketing exec is tearing their hair out.
"What did we do wrong? What did they do right?"
Posted by John Van Pelt (Member # 5767) on :
Maybe the Chinese movie title translated to "Cats on an Eff'n Plane."
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