Comments by "Sparkling Wine" (@vueport99) on "Massive Collapse of Chinese Cinemas; A $20 Million Movie Earns Just $20—Not Joking" video.

  1. Yup and same with their TV shows. Every film maker has to make sure it's all red, all the time to get funding and approval to show. When you tie the hands of the creative people, you get NOTHING good out of it
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  2. They are watching it for free online anyway. Plenty of China websites with all new releases. IP rights don't exist there
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  3. ​ @MiniKodjo sure but at least they're well made.
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  4. ​ @abcde_fz you'll notice lately that western movies don't feature major China cities
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  5. But they can't actively mend relationships with the west or even Japan. The whole regime survived based on perpetual 'struggle' against the outside world. You take away USA or Japan... Who will the govt blame their own failures on? It's just like the US military industrial complex, they need Russian, Iran, DPRK etc to get funding to build and build
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