Yay music มีตติ้งทีมงานสายตื๊ด-HD
(Remix edit of Zombie, originally by The Cranberries)
That's just a coincidence: a song about fighting, and by extension about seeking peace, which happens to have the same name as the topic of this post. Which is just zombies.
This is probably the first short-form vertical drama that I clicked on, and the first that I bookmarked. It's now private:
(I watched several episodes of this series two years ago, until I realized that a song had been removed, leaving only the distorted voice audio: [7:57 music missing from 5:20]ENGSUB【美人攻略 Beauty Strategy EP04】亡族公主逆袭变一代皇后 | 古装 爱情 | 关畅 / 张景昀 | YOUKU COSTUME - YouTube It has short episodes but is not in a vertical format.)
The uploader of that video, Wuxia Legends Theater, only has 1050k views. Out of what YouTube says is 50 videos (48 are visible), the most-viewed has 116k views. They made private the video that has 3x as many views as their second-most-popular video. The channel description says, "All series on this channel are provided by licensed partners or rights holders and are fully protected by copyright." but that's presumably true for big channels like Youku as well and they suffer from muted audio on many videos.
I'm assuming that if there is a government conspiracy, this video was made private because of that conspiracy. If there is no such conspiracy, then it's an unrelated reason.
Anyway, zombies. This short drama, by the same channel, has a very Chinese storyline:
[FULL]Zombies got me outside, one second from death… system saves everything🔥#cdrama #shortdrama
I wasn't intending to watch the whole thing. I was going to watch 1 or 2 minutes, then I decided 10 minutes was fine, but I didn't want to stop so I told myself 12 minutes, and then finally stopped at 17 minutes.
The channel doesn't publish the Chinese name of the short drama. It is most certainly published on one or more Chinese video sites, but without knowing the name, if it gets made private it might not be possible to find and watch it. I have to accept that, having stopped where I did.
The story opens with a group of people intending to eat the male lead. His ex-girlfriend was requesting that they save his hand for her to eat. 15 minutes later, he is about to agree to give his ex-girlfriend food.
Wanting to eat someone is terrible. And many or most Chinese stories have someone who acts badly. Even in Three Body, the crew of the ship that was targeted for destruction was described as the worst criminals in the world. In contrast, the Netflix production, 3 Body Problem, filled the ship with innocent young people. Despite this, China is a country with one of the highest rates of saying that 'other people can be trusted' in the world.
It's like warning people to look both ways before crossing the road. People may be warned constantly, but despite the warnings they may still consider the risk to be low.
That's why to a Chinese audience, the logic "well, she did just say she wanted to eat him, but he has food and she's hungry so he should be nice" is seen as completely reasonable, to explain the actions of a character in a story.
I was thinking that in the US, it's seen as bad to be selfish, and the stories which attract most people are ones where people are not being selfish; instead, they do things that don't benefit them. Like arguing and fighting with people they know. Whereas in Chinese stories, doing 'selfish' things like trying to find someone to be in a relationship with, or just trying to earn more money, is seen as completely fine, and so there are many stories about it. There's no need for the 'excuse' of, like, a reality TV show in which people are forced to be in close proximity to each other, although China doubtless has those and similar shows as well.
But this sort of implies a prediction that with the poll about being generous or nice, a lower percentage of people in the US would answer 'selfish' than in China. If that prediction is accurate, more people answering 'generous' in the US does not mean more people are actually generous; it could be that people think that being generous would be better for society, but do not think that they, or most people they know, act in the way which is best for society.
Zombie movies and shows that I've seen: Train to Busan (Korean), most of World War Z (US), #Alive (Korean), All of Us Are Dead (Korean), the Key and Peele skit about racist zombies, and the first season of Sweet Home (Korean), which seems like a show about zombies for the first episode. This is my basis for saying this Chinese drama about zombies is unlike stories from other countries.
Because of the short drama that was made private, I intend to not watch any more short dramas based on the same condition as not watching other dramas.
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