evocating:

I’m actually not sure who found this
interview (link here),
but it’s absolutely amazing and in-depth, and I want people with whom to squee
with about it. So I’m… going to summarise a lot of it and translate the
pertinent sections. (Everything in quote marks are translated.)

Otherwise known as local bilingual does
useful things with her language skills instead of horrible things. Also
practices her Mandarin.

This interview is very, very long and this
post is just about the first three parts because I can’t translate a half-hour
interview all by myself in a couple of hours. And a couple of hours are all I have.

Parts:

1. Rogue
   One / Jiang Wen’s filmmaking process and philosophy
2. Popularity of American films and American cultural imperialism
3. European films and ‘selling culture’.

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