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China Real Time talks to Chen Kaige<\/strong><\/a>, the “Fifth Generation” director of Yellow Earth<\/em> and Farewell My Concubine<\/em>, about censorship, Hollywood, and his latest film, Sacrifice<\/em>, which arrives in the US this month.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not so sure [Sacrifice will] work for American audiences. So why did I pick this project? With the great progress China has made in the last three decades, we\u2019re sort of proud of what we did, but there is another side.<\/p>\n

Look at Beijing\u2014I grew up here, but now I come here and am a stranger. I don\u2019t want to identify myself as someone who is from Beijing and to me it\u2019s a shame, really a shame. They give you a new Beijing and let the old one die. I totally disagree with this, because the soul of the city is gone with the physical stuff. We pay very little attention to what we respect and what we loved in the past with our culture.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s why I want to pick up this project to tell people who we used to be in our past.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] I enjoy watching films like \u201cAvatar,\u201d because I believe it\u2019s like a dream, a dream that will take you to another planet. But you can know from it the American spirit. So what\u2019s the Chinese spirit? Why in the last decade has everything changed so much? Why do people feel like there\u2019s a chance to have a new hope? What can we do to help people have a dream? That\u2019s very important for us to say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click through<\/strong><\/a> for video highlights from the interview. Also at The Wall Street Journal, Laurie Burkitt reported on Thursday how China’s booming box office\u2014whose takings have risen by 42% in the last year\u2014is increasingly dominated by foreign films<\/a>, despite restrictions on their distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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