Did actress Zhang Ziyi insult China? Chinese netizens respond to her nude photo shoot in movie “The Horsemen”.

Recently, Zhang Ziyi becomes a hot topic on China internet again. This time, it is about her “China insulting” in newest Hollywood movie “The Horsemen”. Below is the news report and related comment from Chinese netizens.

News from 163.com (source: Chongqing Times)

Lately, the international blockbuster movie “The Horsemen” is showing in Taiwan, Hollywood Chinese movie star Zhang Ziyi plays an important role in it. This movie shows piles of Zhang Ziyi’s “nude photo”, all of them are very bold and conspicuously indecent. This makes people inside the movie industry think this movie will not be able to pass the mainland censorship. As the main actress in this movie as well as on those “nude photos”, Zhang Ziyi is accused of “insulting China” by a lot of netizens.

Comment from 163.com and Tianya.cn

网易江苏常州网友/(from Changzhou, Jiangsu)
What’s the big deal of a movie? Associate everything with insulting China, (sigh), why don’t you accuse those things really insulting China, such as encroaching Chinese territory, killing our fishermen, exploding our embassy, and so on…… Criticize shooting a movie on insulting China? Unbelievable.

AV大王
Foreigners are very good at tricking people. First make some stupid cunt into China representative, then use all kinds of gangster method to abuse her, and all kinds of different positions to f*** her; in order to achieve the purpose of raping all Chinese women. Do you think this is disgusting? Bitch!

网易浙江金华网友/(from Jinhua Zhejiang)
Zhang Ziyi has no claim to Chinese female, so she can’t represent Chinese woman.

网易广东中山网友/(from Zhongshan, Guangdong)
Taking a movie so seriously! Aren’t those Chinese movies the same? Bruce Lee defeated numerous strong westerners in early movies, I don’t see other countries accuse us on insulting their martial arts. It is so clear that China is afraid of losing face!

网易四川成都网友/(from Chengdu, Sichuan)
Associate anything with insulting China, I can’t understand why all of you want to look at these things from a morbid mentality. It’s just shooting a movie. (Your are) Too sensitive.

网易广东中山网友/(from Zhongshan, Guangdong)
Taking a movie so seriously! Aren’t those Chinese movies the same? Bruce Lee defeated numerous strong westerners in early movies, I don’t see other countries accuse us on insulting their martial arts. It is so clear that China is afraid of losing face!

网易广东广州网友/(from Guangzhou, Guangdong)
Zhang Ziyi doesn’t represent Chinese…..Look at her recent behavior as well as those movie she’s in, you can’t find Chinese woman’s simple, kind-hearted, subtle characteristics on her at all.

网易河南安阳网友/(from Anyang, Henan)
The No.1 slut in the world! Shameless woman! How sad it is, she degrades herself in front of foreigners, strips and kneels down when sees foreigners, but become noble when sees Chinese!

网易广东中山网友/(from Zhongshan, Guangdong)
Why is this insulting China? Aunt Zhang she has no options! There is a traditional Chinese saying of “Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.”
For making more money, in order to get into Hollywood, in order to survive, aunt Zhang has to do this. She has the capital, which is herself.

网易湖北武汉网友/(from Wuhan, Hubei)
A Chinese celebrity becomes an international star, this is not easy. In certain degree, it is more about well representing China, the motherland, the mother. She should pay attention to her behaviors.

网易湖南张家界网友/(from Zhangjiajie, Hunan)
What if she kneels down to a pig, then is it insulting human beings?

网易浙江杭州网友/(from Hangzhou)
“a lot of netizens…” I think it is actually what the journalist thinks. Don’t “rape” our people’s opinion. Look at the comments above, how many of them are supporting saying Zhang Ziyi insulting China? How stupid the journalist is? Zhang is just an actress and play a role in a movie, how can this represent a country? Is it really so serious? Politics has framed the way you think.

网易江苏徐州网友/(from Xuzhou, Jiangsu)
I feel that some people are really sensitive. But it is good that there are more and more rational people. Please distinguish between a movie and reality!

网易重庆网友/(from Chongqing)
I will go see it if she is completely naked, but if not, then never mind. You people have too much spare time every day, you have seen so many AV movies, why don’t you say they are insulting Japan?

网易广东韶关网友/(from Shaoguan, Guangdong)
Why Chinese pay so much attention on this little thing? It’s not I don’t support patriotic, but what is the big deal of kneeling down to a foreigner in a movie? There are a lot of movies produced by China show that foreigners kneel down to Chinese; did people in other countries say anything? Why foreigners can kneel down to Chinese but Chinese can’t kneel down to foreigners? Movies are just arts!

网易上海闵行网友/(from Shanghai)
A gold digging, shameless celebrity!! She is a disgrace of a Chinese woman!

网易山东济南网友/(from Jinan, Shandong)
I used to be a patriot, but the reality frequently defeats my patriotism. I’m already become hardened to it. If I can, I will change my nationality too.

网易广东深圳网友/(from Shenzhen, Guangdong)
What’s the point of using this news topic to interest audience? There are far more nasty performance in western movies, why don’t you guy jump out and say they are insulting America? Insulting England? So clear this is a marketing method for this movie. All those say it is insulting China go to hell!

网易河南郑州网友/(from Zhengzhou, Henan)
Even I want to change my nationality, I’m so angry! This is just a movie, say it is insulting china is out of the question! If this is the case, if an American girl marries to a Chinese man, then can we say it is China f**king U.S.?

网易广东深圳网友/(from Shenzhen, Guangdong)
A prostitute, how can she represent China? If not, then how can she insult China? She is just a prostitute, that’s all! There are a lot of Chinese prostitutes abroad, are they all defined to be insulting China?

网易江苏南京网友/(from Nanjing, Jiangsu)
(sigh) She is just an actress, how come became a prostitute? Have you met Zhang? Do you know her? What reason have you for abusing her like that? How noble you are then?

AV大王
Zhang Ziyi has no claim to Chinese female, so she can not represent Chinese woman,
She was naked and let foreigner lick her ass.
Associate anything with insulting China, how can a hooker represent China?

Ahmmi
I’m wondering what if a Chinese guy marries an American girl, then will those Americans be talking about insulting U.S every day? A nation can never be represented by an actress.

emikis
Seems that everybody has different boundary and logic….

河中鱼2008
I just want to say:” Can’t she choose some healthy (favorable) roles.” Why she always chooses those disgusting roles? I don’t understand!
Regardless, she can’t represent China, saying her insulting China is actually complimenting her. As a celebrity, she can only represent herself.

不喜多言
Why there are so many mental disorders like to associate the movie roles with reality. Then whoever plays a hooker role is a real hooker, whoever plays a princess role is a real princess, whoever plays a murder role is a real murder. There are so many Hollywood celebrities have played the hooker role, what did they insulted? The U.S.?

你管我叫啥名儿
I just want to say one thing:” the naked picture showed in this news is a foreigner, a guy, it isn’t Zhang Ziyi.”
Zhang Ziyi killed many Americans in the movie; according to your [Sherry: I think he is talking to the journalist] logic, can it be understood as “she represented Asian heroine and punished foreigners?”
Associate anything with politics, too bad you aren’t born during the Cultural Revolution.

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