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Disney China to partner with Tencent subsidiary to build Chinese fanbase for Star Wars
- Thread starter DiipuSurotu
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We just had several threads on the LoL fighting game and card game over the past few days, and Riot's basically entirely owned by Tencent at this point.
The number one reason that China doesn't care about Star Wars is the fact that they missed the craze of the 1970s and 1980s. There is no widespread nostalgia for it, unlike say Japan. Film franchises that started since Hollywood took China seriously, like the MCU, flourish because China got in at the ground floor.
I understand that, but that still won't explain why they would find the originals boring. I mean, you can say that they have be exposed to so many big effects heavy movies that came after SW that they aren't blown away; and when what's left are characters and tropes that feel so familiar, they aren't too impressed. But kids in the West still love the original movies when they see them for the first time right? Or do you have to be a kid when you first see it to fall in love with the universe?
It is easy if you reframe the Empire as the old regime and the Rebels the ones trying to save the people and implement communism. History repeats itself.
Boycotting blizzard/acti has been pretty easy so far. Disney will be a bit harder. Shit you seen one MCU movie you have literally seen them all so no tears shed over that, star wars is going to be difficult to give up but I will.
Won't be long until Disney flips the script and portrays the rebels as the bad guys and the empire as misunderstood.
Won't be long until Disney flips the script and portrays the rebels as the bad guys and the empire as misunderstood.
I dunno. Not only Star Wars feels very US-centric, but it seems it thrives on the back of nostalgia, especifically nostalgia for the 70's film series.
It's not that captivating for younger audiences if someone else doesn't introduce you to the franchise.
I'd say kids in the United States, whose older relatives/parents/grandparents were into SW, are the ones most likely to get into the franchise (In terms of buying toys and that kind of stuff), elsewhere SW is just like another Jurassic World film, or Transformers movie.
Do they though? Anecdotal, but my 6 year old nephew and all his friends and schoolmates are into Pokemon and superheroes but none of them seem to care about Star Wars at all. I'd really like to know how popular the series is with young kids these days cause it seems like Marvel has superseded Star Wars to me.
They would probably give up there family's before they give up the mcu
I mean they have to try something to break out there and catering to kids is probably the right move, but I'm just not sure they'll be successful. The brand is just that toxic over there.
Ah, the adventures of the two Hopeless Situation Warriors, Allah Gold and his master Section Ratio Tile.
Disney wants to make money, period. They don't give a shit about politics or human rights as long as it makes them money.
We will see what happens. It's going to be really... interesting is the only word I can think of...to see how much our world will change if China continues to grow in soft power.
Right now it's a negative interesting. I desperately hope it'll change.
That's an interesting perspective, since Star Wars isn't really about space. It's not really sci-fi at all. It's just fantasy using space as a backdrop.
It's surprisingly easy if you don't like cartoons, comic books or awful Star Wars movies (which are all of them not named Empire).
