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    Titanic challenge for Spielberg, Zhang
    By Raymond Zhou (China Daily)
    Updated: 2006-04-18 05:56

    "When can human beings stop physically annihilating each other and reach a phase of harmony?" he asked.

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    Zhang Yimou
    "Communication is the next important frontier to conquer. We have to communicate and understand each other," added Spielberg.

    He also saw environmental degradation as the crisis of our time. "We're at the tipping point environmentally," he said. "We harvest the environment and it's going to come back to haunt us." As "powerful countries," the US and China can play a role to save the environment and films could be a "good medium."

    "Movies and other arts can change the way people see the world and move people to act," he elaborated.

    On cultural differences embodied in their work, such as the individual vs the collective, Zhang commented that the Chinese culture and education have always emphasized the importance of the group. For all the recent changes, "collective" is always given priority, especially in martial arts films.

    "It's a glorious thing to die for and my film 'Hero' highlights that concept," he explained.

    Contrary to popular belief, Spielberg does not see "Saving Private Ryan" as a group of people trying to save one person; he believes Ryan is a symbol which stands for all the things that people fought and sacrificed their lives for during World War II, "the last great war."

    He admitted that he didn't expect films like "Ryan" to click with the masses but was confident that cultural barriers would not prevent Chinese movies to resonate with American audiences. "I'm fascinated how some movies are bigger in one market than another."

    But the underlying power of human emotions goes beyond borders. "The worst thing is apathy," he asserted.

    Zhang has been accused of pandering to foreign taste, but he was perplexed because "I don't speak a foreign language and I honestly don't know what foreign film-goers want."

    But sometimes he approaches the question by putting himself in a similar position: "Why do I like certain foreign fare? It's not the exotica, the history or the locale. It's the shared emotions that touch me."

    When it came to Hollywood's hegemony, Zhang said there are many people in the Chinese industry who are angry with Hollywood but at the same time desperately want its recognition. The right approach, he said, is to "absorb its experience and use it to enrich our national cinema."

    Spielberg readily acknowledged Hollywood's "domination" of the world market. He cited an instance 13 years earlier in Italy and France. The local press accused his "Jurassic Park" of squeezing out local releases. "I felt terrible and guilty. But it turned out to be not exactly true."

    The situation has been addressed since then when more movie theatres were built in Europe and more opportunities arose for domestic output to be screened along with Hollywood blockbusters, he said.

    For all the technological breakthroughs he spearheaded with his digital dinosaurs, Spielberg did not concur with the statement that "the history of filmmaking is the history of technological advances." "It is the history of good story telling," he offered.

    New technologies only make it easier for filmmakers to tell stories. They are tools. And "that's why movies will be with us forever," he said.

    Zhang shared his opinion: "Whether a movie is intended to be entertaining, thought-provoking or educational, the story is the basis of everything. Everyone, from small kids to older people, loves a good yarn."  


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