In the film history, there is never a lack of China elements in overseas films, and its concrete forms mainly include China's story theme, martial arts, ideology and culture, customs and habits, values, cast members, architectural landscape, costumes, music dubbing and so on.
The story of China is one of the important targets of overseas films. Of course, for a long time, due to various reasons, the west didn't know much about China, so the story about China in the film inevitably has a strong imagination and tends to be polarized. Since 1980s, with the pace of China's opening to the outside world and communication, the west has developed a strong interest in China's long history and unique regional culture, which makes them directly put China-themed films on the screen. For example, The Last Emperor, directed by Italian director bernardo bertolucci, was adapted from the story of the last Chinese emperor Puyi, and won the Best Film Award at the 60th Academy Awards. 1998 American Disney Company adapted the story of China's famous father Hua Mulan joining the army into an animated film Mulan. Kung Fu Panda is a popular comedy movie with the theme of China Kung Fu. ...
Attracting China actors to join in filming is another way for overseas blockbusters to highlight the elements of China. Since 1990s, actors and stars in China have started to participate in Hollywood movies. Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, Yang Ziqiong, Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi. They have become internationally renowned actors, which is closely related to the great influence of Hollywood movies in the world. Of course, China film directors direct Hollywood films directly. For example, many films such as Ultimate Goal, Broken Arrow and FACE/OFF's Mission Impossible 2 directed by John Woo have caused a sensation in the international film industry. Ang Lee, director of Taiwan Province Province, won the Oscar for Best Director for his years of hard work in Hollywood.
More overseas blockbusters show China elements by shooting in China and implanting China culture. For example, when Cameron was filming the sci-fi movie Avatar, he went to Zhangjiajie for filming, which had such a great influence that the local film directly renamed "Nantianyizhu" as "Hallelujah Mountain". Disaster movie's "20 12" was not only filmed in the Himalayas, but also took Noah's Ark to China directly, which really made China people proud. Star Wars 3, Mummy 3 and Mission Impossible 3 were shot successively in Guilin, Guangxi, xi 'an, Shaanxi and Xitang, Zhejiang, showing a strong China element. In addition, China architecture, China art, China cuisine, China costumes, China folk customs and China music are also presented in overseas blockbusters.