Studios have been bashing their brains out trying to come up with a formula that will sell equally well in North America and China. 2/
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Remember Rush Hour? Rumble in the Bronx? Shanghai Noon? You can't just cast Jackie Chan in everything. He's getting old. 3/
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The formula that seems to be emerging is: Come up with a plot that stars roughly equal numbers of NA/Euro and East Asian actors. 4/
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In the English dub, cut the movie to focus on the white guys. In the Mandarin version, focus on the Asian stars. 5/
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The people making these decisions have hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, and they do what the market tells them. 6/
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The Chinese Do Not Give A Shit about your representationist tantrums. This is the new status quo. Me, I'm thrilled. 7/
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Because I have no interest in seeing Matt Damon, but The Great Wall stars Andy Lau, too. Him, I'll go to a theater to see. 8/8
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