Saturday, December 16, 2017

Americans are Villains? Americans Used to be Awesome!

The movie that made the most money in the world is one that kicks the ass of an American throughout the movie. Should we thank Trump that most of the world hates us or should we thank those old successful Rambo movies where Sylvester Stallone kicks Asians from Taiwan for hours?  I know that payback is a bitch but does this movie have to be the most successful ever? If you are an American, you should at least feel a little nauseous.
What does this all say about our culture? The movie called Star Wars the Force Awakens that is now owned by Walt Disney Studios was the highest grossing movie in a single market. The Chinese movie from Taiwan called Wolf Warrior 2 is a Well Go USA Inc. release in America that toppled the box office take by millions of more dollars and the movie is all about an American killing innocent civilian Asians. The movie made an astonishing $850 million dollars worldwide. Recently they released the DVD. The hero of the movie is a retired Chinese special forces soldier who goes to Africa to rescue Africans and fellow Chinese citizens from an evil American called Big Daddy.
The bad American has become the biggest punching bag in cinematic fictional history. Does the world like to see a bad American get his ass kicked? Apparently. The actor needs to stay in shape because he is Frank Grillo and he is 52 years old. He gets paid well to get hit on screen. Before being the Wolf Warrior he stared in the movie called Captain America; Civil War released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures as the character called Crossbones.  Wu Jing who wrote, directed and starred in the film is now more well known and richer than Jackie Chan. It took just a month for the movie to make $854 million dollars. Do people want America’s ass kicked?
Outside China many view the film as propaganda. Others say the film mixes Jingoism with Hollywood heroism. It is described as the nationalist action film storming China. What happened to America’s reputation? We used to be the most well liked nation on the planet. Now China owns us financially thanks to Bush and now Trump bringing up the deficit into the trillions of dollars and with Trump’s new tax plan he will put us into Chinese debt for many, many years. Now we also need to know how hated we are in the world with the instant success of this kick American ass film.
There is a lot of Chinese flag waving in the film and at the end of the picture the Chinese hero beats up the American guy. The last scene in the film has the American about to stab and kill the Chinese hero and he says in the subtitle translation, “People like you will always be inferior to people like me.” In the Chinese film in Mandarin the line says, “In this world there are the weak and the strong. Your race will always be the weak.” Is this racism? So now the Chinese audience is seeing the American saying that they will always be inferior to an American and at that time the Chinese hero overtakes the American and repeatedly and violently stabs and brutally kills the American and says, “Not anymore!”
This movie started as a simple propaganda movie but then when it sold the most tickets in worldwide movie history, the subject matter should be taken more seriously. With the financial success of this film will we be seeing more movies pop up that clearly shows Americans as villains?  Trump’s recent policy of throwing the Palestinians out of Jerusalem and recognizing Israel as the owners of that homeland has forced many Arab states to ban together and no longer trust America? Trump being the only one to pull out of the Climate Accord has lost the trust of all of Europe. Trump throwing DACA kids and most Mexicans out of the country makes South America hate us too. Now America has the worldwide reputation of being a bad nation. Living in a media world now, even a fictional movie is becoming a very powerful message to America. Trump, are you watching and listening how much damage you are causing our wonderful country?






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