The Biggest Hollywood Films Originated from China

Zhang Wuji = Rey [Kenobi???] (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 at the top of Mount Wudang.)
 
OMG, 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/wadeshepard/2016/05/22/how-made-in-china-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.


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cornemuse said:
I think the two idiots in "The Hidden Fortress" were used to portray r2d2 & c3po, , , ,

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Obviously, there are Japanese elements to the original SW (not the Prequels, that was like 99% Chinese), such as this:

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But it doesn't make STAR WARS. Vader didn't become iconic b/c he looked like a high-tech Shogun warlord when in armor. What made SW an instant classic was this: "Luke, I'm your father!"

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Alas, this too is the central backbone of the Condor Heroes. In Legend of the Condor Heroes (= Legend of the Jedi Heroes/ie. the Prequel Trilogy), the story is about the father turning evil. In the sequel Return of the Condor Heroes ( = Return of the Jedi Heroes/ie. the Original Trilogy), the story is about the son confronting his father's past mistakes and choosing to do good rather than evil. The little difference between Condor Heroes & STAR WARS is that the father perished in Condor Heroes, whereas technology allowed Anakin to be on life support after he was technically killed by ObiWan...

Also, in Condor Heroes, the father had his arm poisoned right before he died, and the son actually had his severed. Like father like son, as was seen in STAR WARS where both father and son lost an arm in combat.

Anyways, regardless of which Trilogy we are talking about, SW had always been at least 95% Chinese and maybe 3-5% Japanese, depending on the Trilogy, with the highest Japanese proportion being the Original Trilogy, and the lowest being the Sequel Trilogy.
 
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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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(In STAR WARS each Elder sequentially trained Luke, with Force ghost ObiWan telling Luke to go to Yoda while being frozen on a snow field...)
 
Similar "training setting", Force ghost ObiWan calls to Luke while lying frozen on a snow field on Hoth:

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eatup said:
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 at the top of Mount Wudang.)
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(Zhang Sanfeng is the head of those temples on Mt Wudang, whereas Luke Skywalker lives in those mound-like structures (= Jedi temple) on a mountain in the Sequel Trilogy)...
 
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The story of Lord of The Rings had always been about the love between Sam and Frodo. Sure, there was the quest to destroy the One Ring, but it wasn't what made LOTR timeless, it was the former that did!


Likewise, what made Condor Heroes timeless was the love between "Anakin & Padme". Openings/clips of the various adaptations since Condor Heroes' 1st publication in 1959/1961:


1984 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFdRQoP5v5g


1995 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P9T43BpIk (My favorite one!)


1998 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3QT70LVtNc


2001 Anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGejeMd-soo (2nd favorite)


2006 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jssz_n7fRgM


2014 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLx9fRumSQ


(Notice how Xiao Long Nu = Padme always wear white, except in the '98 adaptation and in the anime, where she wears black and pink respectively. This is where Princess Leia's iconic white robe comes from, even though she is Padme's daughter, not Padme herself. Also notice how in the '84 and '14 adaptations, Xiao Long Nu sport a set of prominent "meatballs" on her head = Princess Leia's buns/hairstyle...)
 
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Like mother (Padme), like daughter (Leia) part #1.

Images below show: i. Padme (= in Xiao Long Nu's favorite dress color, except the '98 Taiwan & anime), and ii. Leia's trademark hair buns ( = Xiao Long Nu's "dumplings" on her head in '83 & '14 Condor Heroes adaptations)

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1983 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFdRQoP5v5g

1995 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P9T43BpIk (My favorite one!)

1998 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3QT70LVtNc

2001 Anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGejeMd-soo (2nd favorite)

2006 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jssz_n7fRgM

2014 TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLx9fRumSQ

(Openings/clips of the various adaptations of The Condor Heroes)
 
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