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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4181668" data-attributes="member: 32740">The fact that although everything in the movie is based on Chinese myth and movies, the HERO is an American teenager, and not even Chinese-American.&nbsp; It rings false through the whole movie.&nbsp; The fact that the exposition is accompanied by voice-over.&nbsp; It's generally preferable in movies to just SHOW what you want the audience to know rather than state it to them because movies are a visual medium.&nbsp; I.e., a father is shown to love his son by action and expression, not by the fact that he says, &quot;I love you&quot;.&nbsp; Mainstream Hollywood films are paranoid about the audience &quot;not getting it&quot;, so they TELL it to them rather than show it (or in addition to).So I get a vibe of, &quot;Americans won't care about the hero if he's Chinese - he's got to be American.&nbsp; Kids won't care about the hero unless he's a kid.&nbsp; Nobody will understand the backstory unless we verbally explain it all to them because we Americans know American audiences aren't smart enough to understand with having it EXPLAINED to them.&quot;&nbsp; YMMV</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 4181668, member: 32740"] The fact that although everything in the movie is based on Chinese myth and movies, the HERO is an American teenager, and not even Chinese-American. It rings false through the whole movie. The fact that the exposition is accompanied by voice-over. It's generally preferable in movies to just SHOW what you want the audience to know rather than state it to them because movies are a visual medium. I.e., a father is shown to love his son by action and expression, not by the fact that he says, "I love you". Mainstream Hollywood films are paranoid about the audience "not getting it", so they TELL it to them rather than show it (or in addition to). So I get a vibe of, "Americans won't care about the hero if he's Chinese - he's got to be American. Kids won't care about the hero unless he's a kid. Nobody will understand the backstory unless we verbally explain it all to them because we Americans know American audiences aren't smart enough to understand with having it EXPLAINED to them." YMMV [/QUOTE]

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