Oscar's most important award: Best Picture, has always been considered the "private land" of American movies. Although has won awards for the best foreign language film (now renamed as the Best International Film Award) in many years, it is not inferior to the best film of the year. But because of the lack of "roots and red", he still missed the Best Film Award.
, including the Italian film "A Beautiful Life" and the Chinese film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a total of 10 international films have been nominated for Oscars at the same time.
But this year, "Parasite" has broken history, won the best film and best international film at the same time, also won the best director and best original screenplay, becoming the biggest winner.
In history, a total of 7 Chinese-language films have been selected into the final list of Oscars for Best Foreign Language Films. Among them, Zhang Yimou has been selected for three: "Judou", "Raise the Red Lantern", and "Hero", but unfortunately, they all missed the best foreign language film. In addition, from the early local movies that reflected the rural areas of China's old society, to the later period costume martial arts blockbuster, Zhang Yimou blindly catered to the taste of Westerners for shooting the so-called "Chong Ao" movies, which was also criticized by many domestic audiences.
Chen Kaige was shortlisted with "Farewell My Concubine", which is generally regarded by domestic audiences as the pinnacle of Chinese-language movies. At the same time, "Farewell My Concubine" also won the Golden Globe Award and the only Cannes Palme d'Or in Chinese film. But unfortunately, he missed Oscar in the end.
There are various opinions on the reasons for the failure of "Farewell My Concubine". Some say it is because there were three Asian movies in the same year: "Farewell My Concubine", Ang Lee's "Wedding Banquet" and "The Taste of Green Papaya" co-produced by Vietnam and France. , Resulting in serious votes. But the bigger reason may be that the Chinese filmmakers at that time still lacked the right to speak and international vision. did not do enough in public relations. In the end, it was overwhelmingly defeated by the seemingly "plain" Spanish film "Four Thousand Golds". lover".
As a prosperous in the Hollywood film system, Ang Lee, who can be regarded as the Oscar "owner", received much better treatment. Not only won the best director twice with "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Fantasy Drifting of the Youth Pie". Among the Chinese films he shot, "Diet Men and Women" and "Wedding Banquet" were also shortlisted for the final selection of the best foreign language films. And "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" not only earned more than $100 million in the box office in North America, but also won 4 awards including the best foreign language film.
In addition, as a Chinese film, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was also shortlisted for the best film competition. Unfortunately, eventually lost to "Gladiator" and played the big villain in this movie. Phoenix won the Oscar winner with "Joker" 19 years later.
Although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is well-known internationally, it has a relatively average response in China. The domestic box office of was only 15 million yuan that year. Douban scores are more than 7 points all year round, and only exceeded 8 points in the last two years. It is in sharp contrast to "Farewell My Concubine", which failed the Oscar but scored 9.6 points.
Many people believe that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" essentially uses "universal values" that are biased towards Westerners to make a Chinese-speaking movie, and half-literary, half-white, half-Chinese, half-western, and partial to literature and art. The tune of dialogue also made many domestic audiences feel uncomfortable, like watching a group of Chinese acting in Western movies.
Li Ang himself also said that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is more like the martial arts version of "Sense and Emotion", but also struggles between reason and emotion, affection and righteousness. In fact, this is also Ang Lee's past in "Diet Men" and other films. The subject of consistent performance.
"Sense and Emotion" directed by Ang Lee
and the copyright of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has always belonged to Columbia Corporation of the United States. Hollywood produced by the Producer Center is more like a Hollywood movie in terms of commercial attributes.
And the Chinese movies after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", whether it is "Hero" or "Ambush on Ten Sides", "Golden Armor" and other Chinese movies such as "The Great Master" and "Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling", They are all on the road to "Crossing the Olympics", and it is even more difficult to even qualify. compared to South Korea todayMovies, Chinese-language movies seem to be a little stretched in the international awards.
However, many people believe that with the rapid development of the domestic film market, we have "Wolf Warriors 2", "Wandering Earth", and "Nezha" such popular and popular movies, even though these movies have completely different values regardless of their content. Meet the Oscar standards. However, as the world's second largest film market, Chinese-language films today can completely entertain themselves. It seems that there is no need to cater to Western values.
Whether it is Korean films such as "Parasite" or other Asian films such as Japan and Iran, no matter how many awards they receive, they become the so-called "light of Asia". Although the film itself is indeed of high quality, it is also a product of Western political correctness to a large extent, reflecting the new round of political correctness of "cultural tolerance" that American culture has been focusing on in recent years, but it does not seem to include China.
Even if we can make a movie of this level, it will not be presented in this way. As a rising socialist country, the Western world is bound to suppress our values. At present, what Chinese-language movies need most internationally is to use movies to export our culture and values. Although this will be difficult at the initial stage, it is a necessary process.
For Oscars, domestic audiences just need to watch the excitement. Do you agree with this point of view?
