Homegrown TV shows, movies are ‘rubbish’
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MANY of the movies, TV shows and publications produced in China each year are “rubbish,” and the solution is to banish decadent themes and concentrate on uplifting social values, a senior government minister has said.
Cai Fuchao, head of the State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, and a deputy propaganda minister, said China makes about 600 movies, 15,000 TV shows and 250,000 publications a year.
“Quality, powerful works are still lacking, and there are only a tiny number of classic works which can reflect the times and leave an impression on history,” he wrote in the Communist Party magazine Qiushi, which means “seeking truth.”
“Although quantity shows the vitality of artistic production in any historical period, it can’t hide the fact that there is a structural problem with overproduction and the mediocre quality of film, TV and publishing creation.”
Artists must stop thinking that the only measure of success is the box office, viewing figures or number of copies sold and put “social benefit” first, he wrote in the latest issue, published yesterday.
The government should “grasp the correct orientation for politics, values and behavior, and prevent the spread of depressing tendencies, materialism and the worship of money”, he said.
Films and TV shows in China tend to rely on staid and repetitive topics, such as heroic revolutionaries and ancient historical dramas.
But the entertainment industry no longer depends so heavily on government subsidies and has had to start earning its own way with livelier offerings to compete with edgier foreign works.
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