Memes From Chinese Movies | Video Essay
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Accented Cinema - Episode 126
Due to the chaotic nature of the video, we decided to not further clutter up the visuals, and cite all the memes at the pinned comment instead. Go ahead if you want to see the memes for yourself!
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To avoid visual clutter, we are citing the memes, movies, and videos in this comment. A lot of them came from links of dubious safety, so I'll just sit the names in the parenthesis. Google are your own risk and sanity :)
In order of appearance:
Intro
00:06 Confused Cat (Unknown source)
00:08 Shrugging Rabbit (Tuzki by Momo Wang)
00:09 Lisa Simpson Presentation (The Simpsons)
00:16 Millicent's Interesting (iCarly 2021)
00:19 A miserable pile of little secrets (Castlevania Symphony of the Night)
00:22 Richard Dawkins (Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Sience)
00:25 All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Zero Wing)
00:27 All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Red Alert 3 - Viral Marketing Trailer)
00:30 All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)
00:34 Brent Rambo Approves ('90s Apple Promotional Video)
00:37 Doge (Kabosu by Atsuko Sato)
00:38 Nerizzler (Ludokano)
00:40 Princess Majima (Unknown source, uploaded by (Porn)sche)
00:43 Billy Herrington Speech (Billy Herrington, reuploaded by Ain)
00:49 Xue Hua Piao Piao (蛋哥)
00:52 Xue Hua Piao Piao (王志平)
00:59 Neighbor Wang (Chinese Parents, commentary by GrayStillPlays)
01:04 Dancing Auntie (God of Cookery)
01:10 Burning Money (A Better Tomorrow)
01:16 Singing Monk (A Chinese Odyssey 2)
Part 1
01:31 Panda face (Unknown source)
01:55 East Sh*t (As Tears Go By)
02:13 Yeah I'm not listing all that...
02:19 The Pope Smirks (Elijah Samuel Burke)
02:22 Big Laughs (Master Kim vs Master Kim vs Master Kim)
02:38 I Want It All (Hail the Judge)
02:49 I Have Never Seen Someone So Shameless (Glasses version from unknown source)
02:51 I Have Never Seen Someone So Shameless (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
03:24 You Are All Rubbish (Love On Delivery)
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04:06 Whatcha Lookin' At? (Kung Fu Hustle)
04:08 Wearing China On Your Chest (Song of Youth)
04:13 Surprise? Happy? (All's Well, End's Well)
04:59 Loss (Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley)
Part 2
05:24 Super Ip Man (小芃路子野)
05:27 Ip Man With Guns (小芃路子野)
05:29 Ping Pong Ip Man (小芃路子野)
05:39 Dancing Ronald (ランランル, Unknown Source)
05:44 Auntie Yell At Door (你有本事抢男人 be Boychouchou)
06:23 A Murder for Mantou (一个馒头引发的血案 by 胡戈)
06:41 China Wins World Cup (中国队勇夺世界杯 by 猫少爷)
06:57 Two Blind People (瞎看什么)
Part 3
07:42 Korone with a Camera (Uploaded by Sakasandayo)
08:00 Ge You Tang (I Love My Family)
08:30 996 ICU (Unknown Source)
08:32 Sleeping Salary Man (Unknown Source, shared by BBC)
08:39 Tang Ping Meme Collection (Shared by Manya Koetse on Whatsonweibo)
08:55 Works Is Out of the Question (网罗天下 by CTV)
08:56 Ernesto Guevara (Shared by 窃格瓦拉)
08:59 Kizuna Ai (Uploaded by 啤酒子）
09:02 Parody Posters (Unknown Source)
09:19 I Love My Company (War of the Genders)
09:23 F*ck Your Boss Tomorrow (No More Bets)
Afterword
09:55 Dong Dong Never Die (Gameplay footage from nocommentarytws)
10:22 Beauty Restoring Fist (Flirting Scholar)
Hey, can you do a demographic analysis of your audiences?
7:33 What is the name of the song?
@AccentedCinema
did you forget his 1?
th-cam.com/video/JKm4-NXBl8M/w-d-xo.html
What the heck is "cultural fatigue" ...!?
China football team isn't corrupt. It's only the commercial league !
Please do the dragonballs, tribute to akira toriyama
Someone editing a whole movie into a True Crime Documentary is peak meme culture. Hats off to you sir, We will watch your career with great interest.
this is the most Reddit comment I've ever read
@@mrjellyfish2 😭😭🙈
it was such a devastating takedown that the director of the original movie, Chen Kaige, threatened to (or did?) sue the guy who made the video
Ahh yes, that Chen Kai Ge movie the promise. That movie was roasted to oblivion.
reminded me of that video of sam in lord of the ring saying ’its the furthest he’s ever been from home’ every time he takes a step
If anyone is wondering, the often seen "coughing up blood" in Wuxia novels comes from the aforementioned Zhuge Liang's opponent dying the same way in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Oh yes, the scene where Zhuge Liang verbally whoops his opponent and the latter gets KOed.
That's so funny! I have read several wuxia novels as a westerner with little context. I always thought, that this expression must go back to some ancient chinese classical literature to be so widely used 😂
@@timhuester7721的确是古代这属于内伤
@@user-hc5cg3jc3i Sorry if it was't clear from my comment. I have read several translated wuxia novels in english. Sadly I don't understand any chinese.
Also, that phrase “I never seen someone so shameless” became more impactful due to the fact that it was not from that script. The actor forgot the line and he had to improvise, which created this classical line.
8:56 due to his physical resemblance to Che Guevara, the nickname for this man became “qie Guevara” using the phonetic pun of qie 切 being the transliteration of Che, and qie 窃 meaning thief.
this is an absolute genius pun LOL
窃格瓦拉是吧
"Work is not an option, at least not in this lifetime" LEGEND!!!
The translation somehow makes it sounded like a manifest of some sort 😂
Part-time to be precise
By the way, this guy looks like Che Guevara, the main founder of the Cuban Communist Party
"work" is not an exact translation, it's "earning a wage" to be precise.
what he said “打工” is more like 'work for the boss'. note that this guy is released from jail, and now he own a restaurant, he is 'work for himself' now.
I never thought I would see Dong Dong never die on this channel
i came down here to say the same exact thing, wild
CHINESE REV
+1
"Memes, the DNA of the soul"
-some nihilistic cyborg with magnets.
The study of Memes used to be called Hauntology
Now there's a pretty meme. Exquisite.
9:50 Dong Dong Never Die is actually even *more* alive than ever!!!
Somehow two independent groups who've never even been on the same site made their own overhaul mods for the game:
- lilihao on bilibili made Dong Dong Never Die 2023, that added Santa as a playable character
- DismasThePenitent on TH-cam made Dong Dong Never Die: Judgment Day, that added Korone as a playable character
as staff for Judgment Day, I wish we could contact the original creator of DDND (江西恐龙/Jiangxi Dinosaur) so we can see what he thinks of the mods... 😢
this game fun as hell
Wow. I lived in China for half a decade and saw the panda meme thousands of times, even used it myself a few times. Never thought I'd learn where it was from. Thank you, Accented Cinema
😅 everywhere you can see 🐼
I fucking cackled at the Ip Man edits
youtube.com/@xiaopenglzy editors channel.
躺平 is more similar to Goblin mode, which is not trying to meet up the social standard. It could be much more radical.
Quiet Quitting means you are still keeping your job, but playing smart to not impress to avoid excessive devotion.
from 音MAD to YTPMV to 恶搞文化....The art of the Funny Video Remix truly transcends borders.
0:38 NOOOO BIBOO GET OUT OF MY HEAD
I don't know if you know this, but in Taiwan there's a meme called Brother Jie. It came from a life lesson video about a teen being tricked into drinking with a man who then later did something sexual towards him. It's was so corny that the two actors became memes. So much so, the actors embraced the memes and even landed a few sponsorships
A psa gone horribly wrong?
@@SlapstickGenius23 yep
Yea I was really disappointed that he didn't mention the Brother Jie meme, I *really* wanted to know wtf that meme is about since it's so often refenced without context in Arknights
It's also wildly popular in mainland China as well. Brother Jie's actor has a bilibili channel with more than 1 million subs
Brother Jie 😂😂
Pandahead mentioned 😤😤🐼🐼🙌🙌
Memes are actually a really interesting lens through which to look at cultural and linguistic differences. Memes have to be specific enough to have meaning, but universal enough to be understood by a large audience. So a Western audience can look at these and not understand the specific reference but probably, perhaps with a bit of explanation, understand the general premise.
Man I love the quality of these videos, keep it up sir
I love learning about memes fron other cultures! My fam and I quote/sing the part at 1:16 to each other all the time haha
Didn't expect to see the doog korone there. But a welcome addition, nonetheless.
I was surprised to not see the "Chinese Beaver meme" but I guess that's a meme that strangely became popular in the west and less so in China
Marmots are related distantly to beavers. Hence they have similar faces.
you are right
Because that line was quite serious, no one would say those words when joking, and there were very few suitable scenes.
是的😂
It's too long to be put into a single picture, or a short voiceless animation (gif or png format).
YANG: Memes...Really?
ALL OF US: Yes
0:38 Sticking out gyatt for Nerizzle-
Zhuge Liang is so classy that he killed his opponent without touching him. Next you're gonna tell us he got reincarnated to Japan and become a manager for an amazing singer or something 🤣🤣
Chinese memes are not complete without Stephen Chow!
Bang bang a chiki chiki~
Record scratches as Kongming roasted somebody so hard his opponent straight up flatlines
Sticking out your gyatt for Nerizzler
Someone paid ther Biboo tax
lol did not expect to see you here
Zhuge Liang’s roasts are so savage they literally kill people. No one outshades Zhuge Liang
You had a vote and memes won? Really? Really?
should have known
I regret nothing!
Its the better option really, kunfu panda and Milan are not native Chinese and they have been covered excessively by others on this platform, so why not something like foreign memes , it gives a glimpse into the thinking of the Culture of chinese netizens who are heavily censored.
It's a good way to know culture for some, if a little questionable
Chinese memes are fascinating and hilarious though, I'd love to know more!
This was fascinating, and the memes were way more relatable than you let on.
I love how you end the video. Such a nice touch.
Ip Man vs Frieza. Ip Man vs Saitama. Yup, I still remember that meme.
Prior to the whole Kiryu Coco incident, there were a decent number of netizens who contributed random Hololive translation and meme clips here on YT, especially the 'remix' types. Some of the big ones ended up deleting their videos in protest over Coco though lol.
One of the most popular I think was 'Pekora Quest' which ended up being re-uploaded by someone else eventually.
Which was tragic. Chinese editing style was unique in a way that brings a lot energy to the clip. I kinda miss it.
@Oswald-hb2mj Yeah agreed. I have zero empathy for their choice to leave, but it was still an unfortunate loss.
To be honest, Hololive’s public relations performance is confusing and even angry. This is just a political topic that can be easily avoided, but until the relevant forums are filled with all kinds of racism, personal attacks and various destructive bots. But what Hololive did was just add fuel to the fire
OH. MY. GOD. DONG DONG NEVER DIE MENTIONED!
I recently watched the 90s Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series and it was so awesome. So many memorable Zhuge Liang moments. This is just one of them. Tang Guoqian's performance as Zhuge Liang was one for the ages.
We’re all inspired by the Motivational Beaver
I may not know what he's saying. But I feel motivated listening to him.
what about the hall of mirrors in Versailles
I follow & chat with a lot of chinese in my fan community, & have grown to find many of their memes funny? Even if I dont exactly understand the context, so I really do love this information on memes!!! I would watch another video or even a more in-depth video! Thank you for this either way. You are one of my fave youtubers
Thank you so much for making this video!
I can’t believe you actually included “虾看” series！ kudos to you my dude！
Video Remixes/YTPs are truly a universal art form that transcends all borders
Jacky Cheung is such an amazing singer! I loved his songs
You can literally make memes a masters level thesis video. Just continuously great content.
As an American user, the sticker and emoji game on wechat is spicier than Kentucky BBQ. Constant vibe checks, it's always an interesting dance beneath the small talk and conversation rituals.
I love how these memes are just like ours! It takes like 5 seconds to learn the context and they're just as funny
I recognised "Too Simple! Sometimes Naive!" there.
Thanks. I JUST got Gyatt For Nerizzler out of my head. Now it's back.
keep up these videos, love them
In Hong Kong, everything Stephen Chow makes are memes. I mean EVERYTHING!
- His "Chinese Odyssey" series where Luo Jiaying/Law Kar-Ying sings "Only You" As "Ong lee yiew.... Can take me choi sai geng" and got slapped scene was epic.
- His argument during the whole court session in the later stages of "Hail The Judge" was an entire meme scene also.
- The "From Beijing With Love" scene with the pistol firing both backwards and forwards also became a huge joke point and a meme
- The "Forbidden City Cops" bed scene wasn't a real tearjerker meme but it's a good meme about "money shifting" when his wife acted by Carina Lau threw the gear into reverse and breaking the mechanism and the bed makes it a pretty good meme.
Stephen Chow has more but it's too much to list.
Then we have the ROTK TV series which has tons of iconic quotes and memes of itself, especially the newer rendition of it with the 2010 series
- Cao Cao running whilst laughing hysterically against Yuan Shao at the Battle of Guandu's meeting became a huge meme because of how dumb it looks
- Cao Cao shouting "No! It cannot be! NO!" in mandarin in one of the scenes became a real big major meme in China and the Chinese speaking community to be used when things are unbelievable.
- Liu Bei tossing his son away at Changban scene gave birth to the meme of people yeeting stuff away in social media scene.
- Zhou Yu clutching his chest whist vomiting blood also became a huge meme in social media by using the same portrayal that you're being angered to the point of vomiting blood and dying
- Cao Cao screaming "WHY THE HELL WOULD I NEED THIS?!" scene when offered the lost imperial seal also became a meme of itself in social media portraying... yes, as what it's intended.
Really... While you have Stephen Chow running Chinese memes from HK, you have the "new" Three Kingdoms show that runs Chinese memes from China itself.
Not the Battle of Guandu, but the Battle of Red Cliff. This battle was famous for Cao Cao being known for drawing out enemy attacks every time he laughed.
@@magicer911 It's Guandu you fool. Yuan Shao was already dead for more than 5 years when Cao Cao decided to claim Jingzhou and pushed Liu Bei to Xiakou which forced Liu Bei to work with Sunwu for alliance sake and also that's when in early 208, Cao Cao decided to push Dongwu/Eastern Wu into submission by using Cai Mao's navy.
Yuan Shao already died in 202 and the whole laughing and running away scene in the 2010 "Three Kingdoms" drama was the Battle of Guandu when Cao Cao parlayed with Yuan Shao just as a pretext for his cavalry to route behind Yuan Shao's army and when the time hit, Cao Cao mocked Yuan Shao with the annoying laughter like a stupid fool and told Yuan Shao "If I was you, I would never let Cao Mengde live as as long as he has his head on his shoulders, he'll never surrender" and just trots away, like a kid. That was the meme.
@@MrLolx2u Cao Cao's most famous laughing memes are the ones he gave during his escape from the Battle of Red Cliff. In China, this is common knowledge.
@@magicer911 Plus Cao Cao did NOT even laugh when he escaped Chibi in the show.
He fled like a peasant that's in tattered clothing cuz everything he had was burnt and Gan Ning chased him to Huarong. Once he was at the crossroads, he was told by Cao Ren to take the longer but seemingly safer route which, he denied as he was already losing hard, lacking of both men and supplies thus he took the shorter and more dangerous route.
That's when he met Guan Yu blocking Huarong Path and he had never once laughed in the show at that point cuz he knew he was fucked beyond all recognition for losing it all at Chibi and he knew if he played his cards wrong, Guan Yu would lob his head regardless and end it all at Huarong Path.
None of what you said about what fuckery that "Cao Cao was laughing when he escaped Chibi" was correct... IN THE SHOW
Cao Cao DID mock the rest and scoffed that Guan Yu was too kind to let him leave and should have lobbed off his head there and when Cao Cao reached the gates of Xuchang, he pointed to heaven with his sword and laughed at it saying how he was the heaven's protected son and he still gets to fight another day and the lords are too weak to stop him. That did happen in actuality but the scene I'm saying is NOT real life but in the show.
Dude ain't reading for sure.
@@MrLolx2u I ran into a fool who read memes as canonical history.
I may not know many memes, but a quality meme is wonderful to see; I am glad to learn more about panda face since I saw him last week
thanks for talking about the game at the end. i was wondering forever what that game was when I saw videos of it on wechat lol
The IP Man memes/comments remind me of Chuck Norris memes that used to plague the internet - when I was in high school in the 2010s. Maybe it was a South African thing, but we used to make fun of how invincible Chuck Norris was 😅
Chuck Norris meme is a classic.
Chuck norris is so strong he even made memes about him go extinct
Stephen Chou really is the thickest pillar of chinese memes
I learned about Dong Dong Never Die when the Super Best Friends played it. It was for a series about crappy fighting games but they ended up actually loving it!
So good, need more
3:34 another layer of this meme is that due to the facial resemblance the actor playing the primary antagonist, Benjamin Lam, bears with another VERY famous actor and singer Leon Lai, people almost always refer to Leon Lai when using this meme, partially because they mistake Lam for him, partially to just mess around
Seeing Aniki in the intro filled my heart with joy 😊
Nice video 😆👍
Was just watching Stephen Chow's Love on Delivery now on Netflix after Look Out Officer.
I dont understand much of the context from language but always understood the scene from what the scenario is built on so even if I didnt get the main part always somehow got what the movie was hinting it.
I didn't expect to see Dong Dong Never Die in this video! 😂
Those Ip Man 5 jokes are fire, I laughed my ass off :D
man these videos are great, really glad to learn about chinese culture
"Even my mom heard of it." Sub meme in a video on memes. Well played Sir, well played.
Damn, I stopped watching that Three Kingdoms show a while back when it was removed from TH-cam. Need to find it again and pick it back up.
I watched it on BiliBili. You can find it with English subs there.
It's on Nyaa if you're willing to torrent.
Finally someone’s talking about the important topics.
Great video! :D
So glad memes won😂 Was smiling the whole time haha
my man took a meme video and some how made it a feel good educational vid
Not gonna lie, I would love to see a part 2 of this topic
Dong Dong Never Die is a classic of internet culture.
7:37 I know it's him even when there's not a single clear pixel on the screen lol
Chinese memes don’t often get a lot of attention from the west but they occasionally pop up in places that you dont expect, such as Jinkela references in Azur Lane and osu, random bilibili otomads on TH-cam, Chinese memes referenced in the Mokou meme macros, as well as a Blue Archive edit I saw that featured 杰哥.
Some day, we will get an Internet we all can share.
Important document. Thank you
honorary mention to empresses in the palace, it's a bottomless pit of memes and edits
Those Ip Man edits are fire lmao
I just saw Shoulin soccer for the first time a few days ago so I was quite surprised to hear it mentioned in this video. I was going to leave a comment about how it also satiates the corruption of football, but it got a direct mention!
Great video
They do say memes are the dna of the soul.
I’m even more determined to learn mandarin now! A whole world of memes lays before me!
Nothing will be more memorable than the Chinese beaver 🦫 .
I never expected to ever see DongDongNeverDies on this channel
0:38 really? i came for good video but got biboo tax instead
You're so bau bau
Gangsta Zhuge Liang has everything figured out, except for the downpour of rain that robbed him of the opportunity to roast Sima Yi alive!
dong dong never die mentioned :O
Tbh some movie and classic lines mentioned in this video are originally in Cantonese instead of Mandarin, e.g. the “everyone is rubbish” one. Strong recommend listening/watching the Cantonese version so that you get the emotion better.
You're such a man of culture😂😂😂
That fighting game looks incredible
i watched IRL form a taiwan streamer and can say ive learn a lot of chinese internet culture. form using numbers as an alternate for english names or terms like "87"
Drop the streamerre
that 87 was mostly exclusive to Taiwan internet culture due to their dialect though, mainland China rarely or never used that term
@@GreenC thanks for acknowledging greenC 👋 i now learned more in the internet
@@LegoCookieDoggie the streamer is JoeyKaotyk, covid lockdown got me hooked to IRL's
What does IRL stand for here? I only know IRL as "in real life".
These memes are so old I can accurately pinpoint which Gen Accented Cinema’s from xD
Jacky Cheng is famous of his song, but man this man have impressive acting skill .
Omg this is great XD
I only knew about that zhuge liang meme because Gigguk of all people referenced it in his 2022 best anime video when he was talking about Ya Boy Kongming
good job for spread the hong kong culture and memes to the worlds
+rep for mentioning Dong Dong Never Die, may it live on forever!
More!! This video is way too short. Honestly you can make this into a series
Omg we would quote the 这辈子不可能打工 all the time 😂😂😂
1:21 perfect.. a chinese odyssey
Dong Dong Never Die is very similar to Street Chaves, a fighting game with characters from El Chavo del Ocho (Chaves, in Brazil) that got popular here in Brazil some 20 years ago
Fascinating.
"Juk Sai Lei" is my favorite one!
Memes will never die. I live for the memes.
Long live the memes.
Man, I grew up watching a whole bunch of Stephen Chow movies. Watching the original and Hmong dubbed versions, so many scenes are too relatable.
I see a distinct lack of information about the meme in the sponsored advertisement at around 4:59.
I have to ask, is that "Loss"?
Bro I was so happy you mentioned dong dong! Hypest fighting game at parties. Did you know a new version came out? It’s called dong dong never die: judgement day
And just like any internet meme, the trend turns so fast some of the mentioned meme already out of trend.
Current trend in bilibili example: a clip from Garfield and Friends Chinese version has been severely meme on right now, into various topics like as said in part 3 of the video.
What awesome is, our dubber and translator mostly change the meme and its honestly still very funny 😅
I LOVE YOU DISTRACTION DOG!
didn't expect to see Dong Dong Never Die here. didn't know that the characters were all different Chinese stereotypes. do you know if there are any explanations of those stereotypes anywhere?