"In short, those foreign award organisations are basically controlled by Western countries. What kind of Huaxia films do those Western countries want the world to see?"
"This can be seen from the awards our country's films have won at the three major European festivals over the years,"Red Sorghum," "Farewell My Concubine," "To Live," have you noticed that these films largely share some common features? That is, they all show our country's poverty, backwardness, feudalism, ignorance..."
Ning Hao couldn't help but be shocked upon hearing this.
He had thought about this issue before, but he had not thought about it so deeply.
Firstly, being in the midst of it, he often followed in the footsteps of his predecessors without ever wondering if what he was doing was fundamentally right or wrong.
For instance, making films to win awards overseas, he was practically following the successful path of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and even his film style was imitating their early works.