Confucius 2010

Confucius (Chinese: 孔子) is a Chinese biographical blur aboriginal appear in Beijing on 14 January 2010. Directed by Hu Mei, the blur stars Chow Yun-fat as the titular philosopher.

Production on the blur began in March 2009 with cutting on area in China's Hebei arena and in Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang.[2]

The blur was appointed to awning afterwards in 2009 to admire the 60th ceremony of the founding of the People's Republic of China, as able-bodied as the 2,560th altogether of Confucius himself.[2] However, the absolution date was afterwards confused to January 2010.

Cast

* Chow Yun-fat as Confucius

* Zhou Xun as Nanzi

* Jiao Huang as Laozi

* Lu Yi

[edit] Controversies

[edit] Best of actors

After the activity was announced, the acknowledgment in China was absolutely mixed. As the blur is fabricated in Mandarin, abounding accept bidding affair that Chow, a built-in of the Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong SAR, will abridgement the requisite Mandarin-speaking abilities to portray the admired philosopher.[3] Others were anxious that Chow, a adept of activity and Kung Fu-cinema, would about-face Confucius into an "kung-fu hero." Such apropos were alone affronted afterwards acreage brilliant Pu Cunxin criticized Hu Mei's calligraphy as absolute inappropriate levels of activity and affair for a blur based on Confucius' life.[4]

[edit] Kong Jian lawsuit

In December 2009, added altercation arose back a claimed-direct descendent of Confucius brought clothing adjoin the film-makers. Afterwards seeing the film's trailer, the descendent, Kong Jian, approved to accept several scenes deleted from the absolution of the blur and aghast to the intimations that Confucius was romantically admiring to the concubine, Nanzi.[5]

[edit] Screening

During the film's barrage in China, the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar is reportedly actuality pulled from about 1,600 2-D screens beyond China, to account the advanced absolution of this film.[6] Instead, Avatar will abide to be apparent on the fewer, but added accepted 900 3-D screens throughout China, which has generated over 64% of the film's absolute admission sales in China.[7][6] The Hong Kong bi-weekly Apple Daily speculates that the Chinese authorities were afraid Avatar had bedeviled the bazaar allotment from calm films and acclaimed that abounding of the abandoned cinema slots will be replaced by Confucius[8], and the blur would be "drawing exceptionable absorption to the acute issue" apropos affected evictions of Chinese homes.[7] However, China's State Administration of Radio, Blur and Television responded by advertence it was a "commercial decision", and because the "box appointment achievement of the 2D adaptation has not been great."[9] However, due to low appearance for Confucius, and aerial appeal for Avatar, the Chinese government antipodal their decision, and accustomed Avatar to abide on some 2-D screens in China. This best appeared to be at atomic partly based on the banking achievement of the two films, with Avatar grossing about 2.5 times added money per day.[10]