The Representation of the East-Asian Culture in the Cymbeline Poster and the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Video Cover

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The Representation of the East-Asian Culture in the Cymbeline Poster and the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Video Cover

East Asian culture has changed such as many other cultures over the

last few centuries. The famous Cymbeline that has recently been

publicized represents East Asian culture as heartless, evil monsters

that get the fun of killing each other, as the white Europeans were

considered the dominant and the more inferior compared to east Asians

as it shows in the poster but the CTHD cover represents east Asians

heartfelt, good people that fight for protection than for thrill and

that involve equality in the east Asians culture.

On one hand the Shakespeare Cymbeline poster and the CTHD video cover

differences of East Asian cultures are the way the women are shown and

represented. The Cymbeline poster, the East Asians fighters are all

men and the only women there is a White European.

This signifying that the East Asians are all Chauvinistic and that

White Europeans are all for equalitarianism; considered a higher form

of citizenship.

On the other hand CTHD represents women as equals and not as ruthless

as the poster.

The video of CTHD the women are as good as men in the matter of

martial arts at the back of the cover as you see two East Asians women

fighting.

This implies that East Asians are all for equalitarianism as the White

Europeans in the Cymbeline poster.

Heroes are needed in any form of media. The Cymbeline poster heroes

are the white Europeans.

As shown, the size of the East Asians to the White Europeans, the East

Asians are like ants but the White Europeans won’t crush the ants.

This connotes that Europeans are heroes as they don’t crush ants even

if they do bad, you can say that they are lovers not fighters as the

White European man and women are almost kissing.

In comparison the video cover shows East Asians the representation of

the hero is much more complicated, and is a celebration of the East

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