Sorry, but China today... isnt China of the past.
They are well informed, and they also hate the radical SJW / feminazi / gender politics.
They even made a joking term to describe it: "Baizuo" ,which supposedly translates to "White Left".
They like good films, just like any other human being. The problem today... is that the bar is set So-LO,
that its not worthy of wasting their hard earned Shekels on. Word of mouth is a lot more powerful over there..
and while there is a good deal of State Sponsored brainwashing / shilling... the state isnt going to shill for
Disney (yet).
The other problem... is that the western world has gotten too used to accepting low quality garbage.
Free money, is often spend by the board youth... whom have little depth of experience. They are woohed
by special effects... but do not know always recognize the emotional content, (or any other high quality
artform) ...that they are missing out on.
Then you have Corporations taking advantage of their fanbase... using nostalgia and love of the past...
to draw in the older fans, as well as making new fans. This has worked for some time... but eventually
is will... and actually HAS backfired on them.
Its similar to the old Atari 2600 games. You looked at the box art... often done by a high quality professional
illustrator / painter... and it gave your innocent mind... the idea that somehow... the game would be Far
superior to the previous bunch of let-downs. Eventually, you make the connection, to the games of deception.
(To the younger set: Many Atari 2600 games back in the day... didnt always have screen-shots of the game
on them. Just some fantastic looking painted artworks... )
Starwars is Flopping here in the Western world now too. The ma$$ media $hills... are doing everything they
can to try to spin numbers, and deflect, as well as point the fingers of blame... everywhere... including on the
very Fanbase! >_<
There is a Huge backlash of Angered fans.. such as myself, whom have decided to vote with our Pesos.
Until real positive changes happen... and the Awful and Toxic SJW / Identity politics are removed... we
refuse to watch the films, nor buy the Bluray/Dvd/merch. The fan backlash is Huge. You can find
video after video of fan after fan... spouting off about it... and the comments sections ringing in agreeing
chorus. Reeling in disappointment, anger, sadness, and disgust... unlike anything ever seen before.
This time, we made a huge impact. Solo was a box office Disaster. It was especially egged on, by
the radical writers, spewing their hate speech on to the fans. That completely flipped all of those
chads whom were hanging on by a single thread of naive and false hope... into a Slamming Door.
The many Shill article writers points are Laughable and Weak. Easily seen through. So fake, manipulative,
and toxic... as to be comically pathetic. Their number game is always funny... as they try to spin
them, to suit a favorable form... and of course, are hiding the dirty truth, in their filthy undergarments.
One example of this... is the statement that Solo sold the most tickets on its first day, than other films.
However, it was also the worst sales figures for any SW film. They first blamed the holiday?! But the
next week came and went... and sales were about 10x worst than their constantly-overblown and
completely-wrong projections.
Another thing these Shills dont sing about, regarding Sales Dollars:
1) Population growth, density, and free-spending money.
- Today, the world has gained all of this, in mass scale. Even the smallest raise in these... produces
a Massive positive sales effect... IF you have something that people want to pay for...
2) Pricing
- Todays prices have gone up dramatically over the years. Where one, it was like $7 to see a film at night,
now you may be paying about 12 to 15$. Add to this 3D sales.. which could add 5$ more to the sale...
especially if its a true big-screen Imax theater.
3) Cost -vs- Earnings
- As per inflation.. and rising costs for both big-name actors, as well as increased costs in every department..
including govt. fees, insurance, material costs, etc.. means far less profit potentials, as compared to the past.
Lets put it this way... If they had did Starwars true justice, in both the prequels and the sequels... they
should have done about 10x the sales that they ended up getting. And now? They are in dangerous
waters... as investing so heavily, and ending up with a financial flop... they could easily end up in the deep
red... potentially sealing the now Cancerous Lucas-Film studio + ILM, into Chapter 11.
The Chinese will pay to see a good film... and they especially like good quality, attractive, actors/actresses.
They dont follow the so called politically correct, forced mechanisms. There is even a theory, that Disney
intentionally inserted an Asian character into SW... merely to get the Chinese audiences more interested. >_<
The Chinese are not Identity based Snowflakes, however... and all it did was further tick them off. Especially
considering... that the actor isnt actually Chinese. Asians within their native lands, can be much more racially
divided, than what people want to accept and believe.
There are some other factors too. Such as how Crouching Tiger flopped over there. The problem was when
the directors, tried to get the actors to speak a dialect that was not natural to them. It was so bad, as to
be comical and painful... that the Chinese simply could not stand it, and turned their noses up at it.
I actually saw that film in a very small no-name artsy-snobby-theater... by weird chance. It was so new,
that it was still english subbed, and no english audio dub. I went back, and paid to see it like 3 more times.
(The original actors voices are far better than the English speaking dub vocalists).
Anyway... while the video was interesting... its simply not valid, after all of this time, and all of China's
mega changes. The only few points that are true, is to do with them not being weak Fanboy groupies,
willing to pay to get kicked in the face... and then doing it 5 more times in a row... expecting a different
result.
There used to be: "Too big to fail". but that is all about to end...
The Rebels will not continue to Tolerate the Evils of the Empire.