I was just reading Suarez-Orozco & Qin-Hilliard's Globalization: Cultural and Education in the New Millennium, and I'm shocked by one of the argument in Chapter One "For example, the film Titanic was the most popular movie in China in 1997 because the mamority of moviegoers identified the tragedy of the film with their personal experiences during the Cultural Revolution".(page 8)
Seriously?????? Is it a fancy imagination or I'm just hallucinating?
Firstly, in 1997, Cultural Revolution is a period between 1966-1976; which means the majority of the audience, young people (age 15-30)in 1997, had no or little experience of that notorious Cultural Revolution. So how could they identify their personal experiences??
Secondly, it definitely requires a trmendous work of imagination to associate the content of Titanic with Cultural Revolution!!(for those of you who knows little about the Cultural Revolution in China, here is the wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution)
From my POV, one of the biggest leading reason for the extreme popularity of Titanic in China in 1997 is nothing but the merits of the movie itself. I would way, almost no difference from the reason of the American audience.
Still, please correct me if anything I have overlooked....
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