“We like our color and our culture and our own strengths and our own stories (if we don’t, we really should). Keywords Business, China, Hollywood, soft power, whitewashing The Great Wall film is the biggest USChina co-production in history with a cost around US150 million. This complex dynamics would influence the soft power of both China and the United States. “We don’t need salvation,” she continued. whitewashing and soft power, suggested the dialectical dynamics among them. William Garin is a European mercenary who is traveling with some others in search of black powder (gun powder). It stars Matt Damon, playing a character called William Garin.
It was directed by Zhang Yi Mou, a fairly well-known Asian director. According to the film’s director Zhang Yimou, there’s a reason for that and it’s not whitewashing. With the Great Wall film now on Netflix, I discuss wether I think it is whitewashing & if it’s good/ bad for Third Culture, cross-cultural stories and mo. “When you consistently make movies like this you ARE saying that. The Great Wall came out on February 17th, 2017 in the U.S. Next February, Matt Damon stars in a movie centred around the Great Wall of China. They didnt succeed in creating a historical documentary but they captured the emotional aspect of it. The Last Samurai had good characters, good acting, good storyling (even tho fake historically) but it had a lot of emotion and heart. “It’s about pointing out the repeatedly implied racist notion that white people are superior to POC and that POC need salvation from out own color via white strength,” Wu wrote. The Great Wall was bad acting, bad narrative, bad production, bad storytelling. Wu, who previously tweeted about Johansson’s casting, added that money was the “lamest” way to excuse the casting decision but didn’t cast blame on individuals. Earlier this year, controversy arose over the casting of Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange as a character that was originally a Tibet-dwelling Asian man as well as the casting of Scarlett Johansson in the remake of the Japanese anime, Ghost in the Shell. Damon is not the first white man to save another culture or group of people from death and destruction, but his casting comes at a time when many have criticized Hollywood for continuously producing such movies and especially not providing substantial roles for Asian American actors.