“Film Conflict” .. What’s going on?
China plans to produce films about its military power, and the issue is not much different from American “action” films. The superiority of the American film Top Gun prompted China to declare itself as a serious competitor in the field of the production of war films against Hollywood hegemony, after having put all its capacities into the production of a film on the Chinese Air Force titled Born to Fly. British magazine “The Economist” considered it a response to Hollywood producing a sequel to Top Gun. Both British and American newspapers saw that the Chinese film Born to Fly rivaled the famous Hollywood films Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick. Critics unanimously agreed that the idea of ​​the Chinese film is largely borrowed from American cinema, with the aim of highlighting the skill of People’s Liberation Army pilots, and showing the rapid development of the aviation industry. Chinese. Western soft power conveyed through music and movies played a role in the end and collapse of the Soviet Union, critics say, and it could play a major role after China-US relations States have entered the field of the Cold War.
The situation through the eyes of a film critic
The art and film critic, Mohamed Hegazy, commented on the report of “The Economist” magazine and other international newspapers in this regard, and said:
“There is a very clear competition between America and China, because the Taiwanese file entered strongly in line.” “China is a productive and important country in the field of cinema. It has a strong and well-known film industry in festivals, but it is not so strong in the masses.” The reason is due to a number of factors, including that American films are screened in various parts of the world, while Chinese films are screened in limited locations.” “Hollywood has accustomed people around the world to the cinema of star, like the star is what attracts people to watch movies. Hollywood is a pioneer in this field, and even Europe has suffered from the dominance of the American star over the global film industry.” , for example, has been in theaters for two weeks, and it is in theaters in China, in some Asian countries and in some American, European and Canadian cinemas, it did not attract more than 390,000 spectators. The film (Top Gun Maverick) grossed one and a half billion dollars a year ago. “The Chinese are making the film for China.”
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