It seems the use of video parody has inspired a creative streak in China. At the recent FEAC conference in Manila, I talked about the rise of podcasting (audio and video) in China, and the famous viral video “The Bloody Case That Started From A Steamed Bun” which lampooned the high budget movie “The Promise.”
Roland Soong at ESWN has a story about how Hu Ge’s video has inspired even more creations. But it seeems some folks are not happy. An excerpt:
The targets of the spooks [sic] are two classical Chinese movies: Twinkle Twinkle Red Star (闪闪的红星之潘冬åå‚赛记) and Railroad Guerilla Brigade (é“é“游击队).
A spokesperson for the company that produced Twinkle Twinkle Red Star said: “Hu Ge was making fun of a commercial entertainment movie and did not overstep any moral bottom line. But Twinkle Twinkle Red Star is an acknowledged red classic and its contents have nothing to do with a singing contest. To make fun of it for no apparent reason is incomprehensible. This can only be Internet junk.” But the movie company probably has no recourse because they are up against the state behemoth CCTV.
In round #3, creative netizens made a spoof on the CCTV spoofs (see story in link). This spoof used the used the video clips from Twinkle Twinkle Red Star and Railroad Guerilla Brigade. The difference was that the newly dubbed voice-over contains a lot of obscenties. CCTV has announced: “We will investigate until we get to the bottom of this. We will be merciliess in eradicating this type of behavior.”
