China’s ‘ne zha 2’ fuel nationalist pride

Beijing:

Just as Ne Zha 2 smashes box office revenue, the Chinese animated film about a mythical boy with magical powers has sparked national pride and now hostility for rival Hollywood offerings such as Captain America’s latest installments. I did.

Superbly captivated Chinese audiences with dramatic battle scenes, Ne Zha 2 has become the world’s finest cultivated animated film of all time. Record-breaking sales at home have the film backing Dethrone Disney’s Inside Out 2.

However, the film’s overseas success is still seen, causing a fierce debate over China’s social media about the merits and failures of the film. Criticism of Ne Zha 2 has often been met with intense rebuttals.

Anti-Hollywood rhetoric has also appeared this week, with some Chinese social media expressing their dissatisfaction with the lack of NE ZHA 2 screening in North America.

“It doesn’t matter whether Ne Zha 2 will survive overseas, but according to Captain America 4, Captain America: Brave New World held in China last week, “Captain America 4 will be in China.” You need to die.”

Cinemas in southwestern China told local state-backed media they would support Ne Zha 2 by not screening Marvel films.

In an editorial on February 16, the nationalist Chinese tabloid Global Times said that the captain was due to the Chinese audience being “lost patience with the stylistic expressions that rely on special effects and elicited dialogues.”・America: It writes that the brave new world is shaking in China.

In contrast, Ne Zha 2 connected with “modern youth values” and had “multi-character emotional resonances,” the newspaper wrote.

Marvel Film has made just 87.1 million yuan ($11.99 million) in its opening game in China, according to ticketing platform Maoyan, which is part of the US $88 million opening weekend ticket sales.

In comparison, Ne Zha 2, which opened in China on January 29th, was raked for 12.6 billion yuan, including international sales.

($1 = 7.2658 Chinese Yuan Renminbi). Reuters