Made in China: Hollywood's biggest films

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This is just a quick recap for those who don't want to skim thru pages of the other threads I've posted in.


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For Avatar's Chinese "origin"/inspiration, go here: http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthre...=1#post1126540




This is where STAR WARS Episodes I-VI came from:




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(Pictures below came from various adaptations, not necessarily from the one shown above).






Yang Guo & Xiao Long Nu:


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Anakin & Padme:

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Western monk / Eastern monk:

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Emperor Palpatine / Jinlun Guoshi (aka The Golden Wheel Monk):

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Count Dooku / Jinlun's 1st student (he exists in the story, but his whereabouts unknown):

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Darth Maul / Da'erba (Jinlun's 2nd student, he is a Mongolian priest):

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The Viceroy / Prince Huodu (Jinlun's 3rd student):

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Gungan leader / Quanzhen Sect leader:

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Giant Condor / Millennium Falcon:

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Giant Condor / Chewbacca (Giant Condor's personification):

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Quanzhen Sect charging / Gungans preparing for battle:

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Mongolian army / Trade Federation droids:

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Guo Jing / QiGon Jinn (they even used the same sounding word):

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Han Solo (Han is actually a reference to the Han Chinese ethnic group):

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Iron Clown (this char came from Demi Gods & Semi Devils actually) / Boba Fett:

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Iron Clown (or Boba Fett) mourns over loss of guardian exactly the same way as depicted in the Manor Fight with Xiao Feng:

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And, this is where THE FORCE AWAKENS comes from:

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(Again images shown below not necessarily from adaptation depicted above)



Kylo Ren's fire-breathing "Dragon Saber":

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Heaven Sword & Dragon Saber:

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Sword that fell from Heaven still attached to Luke Skywalker's hand:

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Closeup of Finn with "Heaven Sword":

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Or in droid form (b/c in Heaven Sword (Yin) & Dragon Saber (Yang), each blade contains half of a secret map hidden within the hollow inside of its main blade):


Heavenly Droid (BB8/Yin):

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Dragon Droid (R2D2/Yang):

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Zhou Zhiruo = Kylo Ren (Disney switched their gender):

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Zhang Wuji = Rey (again Disney switched this char's gender):

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Zhang Sanfeng (the most powerful figure in Heaven Sword & Dragon Saber) = Luke Skywalker:

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(Luke was finally found at the top of a mountain. Zhang Sanfeng lives on Mount Wudang.)

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Miscellaneous STAR WARS stuff:


Beggar Chief's staff (or dog-beating stick from DGSD [2013] adaptation) / Rey's primary weapon:

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Yang Guo & Xiao Long Nu in a duet fight:

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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL1Iu9lqN1U (YG & XLN's duet stance)



X-Wing (Yang) & Millennium Falcon (Yin) pairing (or co-ordinated attack against the Empire/Emperor/The Golden Wheel Monk):

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The most iconic moment in all of STAR WARS:

Luke Skywalker facing off Darth Vader (and/or his past misdeed(s)) = Yang Guo (son) facing off Yang Kang's (father's) "evil" past (metaphorically of course, since Yang Kang actually perished whereas Anakin Skywalker went on life support):

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The ~3-5% Japanese part (a Shogun armor does not make STAR WARS, it was the father turned evil and the son, Yang Guo, redeeming his father, Yang Kang, theme that made it an instant classic!)

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Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) posing with CEO of Huawei:

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(LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 06: Richard Yu, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Cunsumer Business Group and Henry Cavill attend the Huawei P9 global launch at Battersea Evolution on April 6, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for Huawei )

http://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshep...a-became-cool/

How 'Made In China' Became Cool

A revolution in consumer sentiment has spread across China. “Made in China” no longer inherently means cheap, inferior, and unfashionable. The respectable Chinese brand has emerged, and some have not only caught up with their more established foreign rivals but have actually started to surpass them in China and beyond.

In 2011, 70% of smartphone sales in China were from three foreign brands: Nokia, Samsung, and Apple. At that time, the country’s myriad local electronics manufacturers and nascent domestic brands were thought to be little more than cheap impostors, lacking in quality and simply not carrying the same social-proof and status as the expensive and trendy foreign phones which dominated the market.

“Any self-respecting Chinese consumer wouldn’t be seen dead with a local brand,” Mark Tanner, the director of China Skinny, a Shanghai-based consumer research firm, described the prevailing attitude of this period.

But now, hardly five years later, this has changed.

Read more in the link.

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The Elders who trained Yang Guo as their last deed:

Ouyang Feng & Hong Qigong:

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(In Condor Heroes, they both trained the protagonist at the same time on a snow field)


Likewise to Luke, ObiWan & Yoda:

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Although ObiWan & Yoda sequentially trained Luke, we see a similar "training atmosphere" in STAR WARS, where Force ghost ObiWan calls to Luke while lying frozen on a snow field on Hoth:

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