Posted on 01/30/2022 7:04:38 AM PST by MarvinStinson
China provides open-minded Western actors a refreshing career alternative to sluggish Hollywood and does not “get enough credit” for vast improvements in film production, Kevin Lee, a British actor working in China for a decade, told Breitbart News.
Lee encouraged Americans, and Westerners generally, to give Chinese films a chance, arguing that they present much more nuance than the publicity they get overseas.
Lee has worked as British, American, and other Western characters necessary to tell Chinese stories during his time in the country, receiving airtime in increasingly high-profile blockbusters as the Chinese film industry has become a bigger player in global filmmaking. Lee most recently starred in The Battle at Lake Changjin, the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time and the number two highest grossing film of 2021 anywhere in the world.
Lee will also feature in the upcoming film Sharpshooter (sometimes translated as Snipers), directed by legendary Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. Zhang – once a pariah over his brutal anti-communist film To Live (now banned in the country) and violations of the now-defunct “one child policy” – has become one of the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite directors, set to return to directing the Olympics Opening Ceremonies next month.
Sharpshooter and Lake Changjin are both war films told from a Chinese perspective. As they are set in the Korean War, the enemies are the U.S. government; the heroes are the Chinese soldiers whose sacrifices make the existence of North Korea, arguably the most repressive regime in the world, possible today. The film depicts Mao Zedong, responsible for at least 45 million deaths, as a fatherly, thoughtful leader pained by the sacrifices of his soldiers.
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Maybe something good will come
out of this particular mess, and some American will finally make a movie about the Chosin Reservoir.
Actually, it can be said that title belongs to Rachel Carson.
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The title is held by Mao Zedong who murdered over 74 million people. Carson is not even close to Stalin with 69 million murders.
Where did you come up with 69 million for Stalin?
The “Black Book of Communism” only “credits” him with 20 million.
The “Black Book of Communism” only “credits” him with 20 million.
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Book is way way wrong - During the Purge in the 30s he had the NKVD take out millions living outside of the USSR in Europe.
Murdered by Stalin: 1917-1987 = 61,911,000. There are other accounts that go to 69 million. But that book is trying to make it look like Hitler was a nice guy. Wrong. He was a piker in the murder game.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn estimated total deaths under Stalin could be as high as 60 million. The majority died in prison camps, not counting the 6 million that Khrushchev starved to death in the Ukraine.
There is a wholesale attempt to mitigate Stalin’s murders and redeem the USSR by modern socialists so that socialism does not look so bad.
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