 Are the Saints the team you hate the most in the NFL? Yes. Is there an even close second? Second would be Cowboys, but it's... But if not for the same reasons? Some of the same reasons. I hate their fans equally as much. Yeah, but... No, no, it's 1A and then like five would be... Got it. Uh... And then who would be a team, Falcons get eliminated, who'd be the next team that you're really hoping for? Does it change season to season? I don't have like a second team, but it's like... Last year I was rooting for the Lions, but they didn't make it the playoffs. I have teams that if they're... Depending upon what's going on, who's on the team. Bengals, when they went to football, was rooting for them. Me too. Even though they're like a dynasty now, I still don't hate the Chiefs. I like them a lot. I like Pat Mahomes. How can you not appreciate that Man's the Great? But no, I have one team. I mean, I guess technically, the Chargers, because my dad was a fan growing up with them. I wish they wouldn't have left San Diego. Yeah. That made me sad. But... Anyway, we'll go back to where Steve directs of Corbyn. We like football. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, foreign cheese. Are you going to watch this here? Because I don't think you watched last year. I'll watch a little bit more this year, yeah. I mean, I like... You love football. Oh, yeah. No, I do not. I really like football. The problem oftentimes, and I'm going to try to remedy it this season, is I often get so focused on the postseason and baseball. Yeah. At this time, that's over. The season's already six weeks in for football. But the Yankees aren't even going to make a playoffs. Well, the Yankees suck ass. But the Dodgers are absolutely in the thick of it. They'll be in there. Red Sox is the best team in the MLB. Well... If the Yankees don't... I mean, for God's sake... Steinbrenner should sell the team. Um... Anyways. But Judge did become the fastest player to ever reach 250 home runs in the history of Major League Baseball. He just hit his 250th. No one's gotten it that fast. Oh, wow. Uh... What are we doing, Corbett Miles? I don't know. Stop asking me. Oh. Today we've got a video. This is called Dungle How Indian Film Captivated China. Yeah, it's the biggest success of all time in India cinema history. In terms of box office. Yeah. It blew our minds. And it was... And one of the reasons it is, is because it was so popular in China. Gamir Khan. That's so interesting to me. He's probably the... You guys let me know if I'm wrong. I think he's probably the biggest star in China in terms of... Indian cinema? A shower con, I guess, would be a close second. And any reason why? What that's all about? They like him a lot, I guess. I don't know. But this video will go into explaining it. We've seen a couple videos from this channel. You'll probably recognize the guy's voice. He does video essays. I don't know if he was the one that did the Superstar Rashnikan fan one. The Japanese fan? Yeah, maybe. But we've seen a couple videos from this channel. So, here we go. Cool. Looking forward. We love Dongle. Haven't seen Dongle in a while. Great movie. Spent a long time. His transformation was incredible in that Amir Khan. And it's such an inspiring story. Wow, I thought to be more information. Everyone was talking about it. And it was nothing but praise. Based on a true story, Dangao is a 2016 Indian sports drama about a father who raises his daughters into Olympic wrestling. In this journey of defiance against traditional gentle roles, the film tackles the topic of gender inequality in India. With a fantastic premise, solid story and masterful acting, the film became the highest-grossing Indian film ever made, raking in an impressive 77 million US dollar in India and more than double that in mainland China. I wasn't joking when I said China burst into flames for this movie. You see, the 2010s was a decade of feminism in China. Ha! In 2011, Chinese celebrity Li Yang was publicly accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife Kim Lee. Lee said the police did not take action as both they and Li Yang believed the abuse was private domestic affair. In reaction to this case and other discrimination cases that followed, women's rights entered public discussion once more. Good. Chinese women petitioned for further legal protection. While some men mocked activists as female boxers, upon the implies women to be men-haters. Donggeo was released right in the middle of this feminist wave and if he could be a perfect ally, the movement needed. Despite the massive cultural divide, women across China still find the film eerily relatable. That's how the one common thing between the two ancient nations is thousands of years worth of sexism. Today, from a Chinese perspective, let me walk you through this Indian masterpiece and show you what Chinese women see in this film. Let's talk about why you two should watch this movie. Oh, we already have. Thank you so much. So it's kind of like a perfect storm almost. I guess so. Movement and film. Our story begins with Mahavi, a former national wrestling champion. Despite talent, his Olympic dream was cut short due to the harsh financial reality. If there's no food in the plate, why don't you eat? Funding for sports in India has been lacking historically. Most athletes in India struggle to make a living. I earned money in the first place. I just couldn't earn money. Mahavi too has to set his stream aside. He ended up a lowly wrestling coach in his village. Each night, he'll look at his awards. What I wanted to do, I'll show you my son. My son will win gold for the country. And with this half-patriotic, half-selfish motivation, Mahavi anxiously awaits his first trap. That phase is so familiar to me. For a very long time, I was the only son in our extended family. All of my paternal uncles had daughters. And I distinctly remember when one of my cousins was born, someone in my family exclaimed, How come it's a girl again? Fortunately, just as Mahavi loves his daughters, my cousins were loved as well. But there is always this undertone that I, the only grandson, is the most valuable one to my grandparents. That I bear the most responsibility for this family. This is hardly the standard, however. More than a few of my female friends as a counter-example grew up in neglect. In fact, girls in China are more likely to be neglected by parents, although boys are more likely to be physically abused. Basically, boys need to be whipped into shape while girls are just whatever. The subtext is that daughters just aren't as valuable. There are many justifications for this perception, but in my eyes, they are all excuses. Now you can see why the Chinese audience instantly bonded with the film. After the birth of his first daughter, the entire village begins giving Mahavi tips on having a son. Mahavi, you are writing a son-in-law. Keep on doing what you really want. That too happens a lot in China. Superstitions, of course, don't work. Mahavi and his wife continue to have three more daughters. Seeing this, Mahavi decides it's time to give up his dreams. While we are on the topic of awesome Indian movies, why not check out some more with today's sponsor, Movie. If you don't know, Movie is a streaming service dedicated to elevating great cinema from around the world. We've watched a few movies. Great, we're elevating. It includes classics like Gangs of a Support, both Hot 1 and 2. It's one of, if not the most, requested film for this channel, and it leaps up to the hype. Sure does. Six-hour movie. If you are interested in Chinese cinema, Let the Bullet Fly is also highly requested. Which one? What do you say? Let the Bullet Fly. Honestly, every movie on Movie is fantastic. As the entire catalogue is... Oh, that's a good movie. Pick a movie from one of many collections and retrospectives. Or browse by country, by year, or by genre. Read the summary or curators note or user reviews. From iconic director to emerging authors, pop on a movie and have a fantastic time. If you are interested, you can try Movie free for 30 days at movie.com slash accent cinema. That's mubi.com slash accent cinema for a whole month of great cinema. Enjoy the beauty of world cinema today. Check out the link below and give Movie a try. The story takes a turn when one day Mahavi comes home to see two schoolboys having a ass handed to them by his two older daughters, Jita and Pavita. Goddamn right. And so, an idea comes to Mahavi. He'll train his daughters to become wrestlers. Girls can do it too? Strict diet, intense exercise, all distractions removed. If their clothes are in the way, Mahavi changes them. If their hairs get in the way, he cuts them. He raises his daughters like sons. This is another thing that the Chinese audience can relate. I couldn't find any study on this so you have to take this with a grain of salt. But as far as I know, parents raising their daughters like sons is a somewhat common thing in China. Under this practice, the daughters are given traditionally male-sounding names often grow up in gender neutral clothing. They are taught math and science over arts and music and they are encouraged to be stoic, reserved and independent. Often this practice is motivated by the parents' unfulfilled desire to have a son, but that is not the only... Reminds me of the Irfan movie. To many parents, this is also for their daughters' future. You see, in Chinese history and literature, the one where he wanted the son, the Punjabi one, yeah. On one end, we have Mulan, the warrior, the female emperor, Empress Lu, the politician. They were women who did the men's work. Cunning and determined, these women lived long and successful lives. And then there is Diao Chan, Yang Guifei, Concert Yu. These are women defined by the beauty and the relationships to men. And they were all driven to suicide at the end of the story. It's a strong internalized cultural bias. Beautiful women are seen as a home of Troy, a source of trouble. So for a daughter to be competitive in China, she has to man up. In a way, Mahavi is doing the same thing to his daughters. In this scene, Jita and Barbita complain to the friend about the abusive father. Sitting in front of them is their friend, a 14-year-old girl about to become a bride. It is here we begin to see Mahavi from a different perspective. Mahavi is a fraud character. His treatment of his daughters is hard to love. Yet I think a lot of Chinese women would agree he made the right choice. It is a privilege to be able to choose your own destiny. Many women in India have no such choice. Many women around the world have no such luxury. Should the daughters grow up as everyday girls, they'll be stuck in the lowest class of society. Cook, clean, and bad children. In an unjust society, this kind of hardship is the only way out. If you are familiar with the Japanese cramped school culture, it's pretty much the same in China as well. Students, both boys and girls, spend every waking minute in high school studying for the National College entrance exam. Why? Because the entrance exam has a low barrier to entry. It offers an equal playing field for disadvantaged students to seize their own destiny. A diploma from a top university allows low-income students to find high-income employment. A degree title allows women to be independent and not be dictated by men. Perhaps having experienced this type of hardship, Chinese people are often very understanding of Mojave. Even when Mojave repeatedly says that the whole thing is his dream, Chinese reviewers nevertheless would say this film is a great depiction of fatherly love. Jita and Babita realized the importance of their training. They became much more receptive to wrestling. Soon they stopped winning local tournaments and then national ones. Jita would enter the national team and eventually entering the finals of the Commonwealth Games. So the night before her final battle sitting in front of the stadium, Mojave gives his daughter one last lesson. This line resonates with so many people. If you belong to a group facing prejudice, you know that your action is never just your action. You are always a representative of your group. The book is blocked at some stage. One of the most used examples of media bias is car accidents. News articles frequently refer to female drivers as female drivers. While male drivers are just drivers. Every time you see a story about car accidents, you only ever heard of the mistakes made by women. While mistakes made by men are gender neutral. The failure of a male driver is the failure of an individual. The failure of a female driver is an indication of women being unfit to drive. Even though per capita is not just Australian, it will fight against all the women who think this way. The words of Mojave struck a chord with Chinese women. Jita has to fight a war just to get the same amount of rights and respect that men get from birth. That is the reality for the vast majority of Chinese women too. Will Jita succeed in the end? I'll let you watch the movie and find out. While researching for this film, I posted a community post asking my audience about the practice of raising daughters like sons. At the time, I thought it was a Chinese thing, but then I got flooded with emails from around the world, sharing stories from the Middle East, from Eastern Europe, from Southeast Asia, and from my Chinese-American audience. This movie isn't just about India, certainly the film has its problems, one of which is how the story is told almost exclusively through a flawed male perspective. But for my male viewers, that also means this would be a good entry way to know more about women's struggles. Just to show how real and important the film's topic is, allow me to share one last anecdote. I once had an Iranian friend in secondary school in Canada. One day during recess, I asked her what's her plan after graduation. And she said she doesn't really have a plan, because once she is out of school, she'll have to get married. Her tone of voice was sheared into my memory. She doesn't sound sad, but she sounded hesitant. She knew this sounded wrong. She was 15. Well done video. Yeah, I recognize his voice. We've seen him at least a few times. Yeah. I don't know why I'm still recording the screen here. Why am I still recording the screen? Am I really? Okay. So I guess it was kind of like almost a perfect storm of why that film did so well. Yeah, which I didn't know, obviously. That's why, obviously, I think a lot of Indian films have done well in other Asian countries. Because, I mean, even though the cultures are extremely different, they're also very similar in some aspects. Sure. Makes sense. Yeah. Makes sense, aside from the part of it just being a really good movie, I was unaware of it arriving at the time there was this influx and increase of things pertaining to women's rights in China. And also the other points he made about the focus that is made of fathers treating their girls like the males they wish that had been born and they could see the dad in this doing that. Because he is in the film, no spoilers, it was given there. But if you haven't seen Dongle, which I guess all of you have. But he does, I mean, right at the very beginning to say you know, your expectation is first and foremost, give me this son and you're disappointed with a daughter. And then before the child is even born, you've already decided that they're gonna be athletes and win the gold and that you're gonna drive them to do that. Yeah, that's not disappointed with your girls, that's why you kept having some Tomica? No. Ah, okay, sorry. Yeah, I've never I have never understood we are never understood it. We have a different perspective on the in a different kind of Oh for sure. Privilege that we as white Americans in the white American culture that it's not something that I mean, obviously other people that have prejudices. 100% But it's nothing in comparison. But it's not national? No. It's nothing like what China or at least India sometimes has depending on the region not at all and and yeah a lot of dads want sons but there isn't and obviously when you're talking about the rights of men and women, that's a completely different story. But as it pertains to culture that you grow up in, I mean my stars, China had a one child policy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're just obviously affecting them now. Rightly so. But the I actually always wanted a girl. Yeah, I I my my feeling I come from a family of boys though. My my feeling was I'm interested to see what God gives me and if you don't believe in God what nature in the universe is going to give to me and I didn't had a girl loved it and then when new another one was coming because the girl was so beautiful I was kind of hoping for another girl but would have been cool to have then when Micah came it was weird because I'd only had girls so it was like Oh, what's this going to be like? I was not expecting that even though I've always thought about I would love to have had both. Yeah. But there was no guarantee I was even going to have kids. Yeah. So I just and the same thing with grandkids I happen to know I guess intuitively wherever when I was told what do you think it's going to be I was right when it pertained to every being a girl and Leville being a boy. That's 50 to 50. But I don't care. They're human beings. Wow. Rick doesn't care about his grandchild. You heard it here first everyone. Yeah, I just I just I don't obviously in many cultures around the world that matters because of the prejudice but it's sad and not Yeah, it's unfortunate. Yeah. But yeah, there's very interesting video because we've always wondered like especially Rick when he found out that Dango was the highest ghosting film of all time. China contributed a great great deal to that way more than actually India did. Yeah. In terms of money. Yeah. But also isn't whatever money they use in China worth more than the rupee? Yeah, I think Yan Yan has always been a little bit higher value than the rupee. Yeah, I do not know the exchange rate but my understanding is it is obviously like the dollar is higher and so you don't have to sell the pound tickets exactly to make money here off of a film than you do in for an Indian. I appreciated the fact that it's coming from his perspective. You know have a Chinese person explaining the Chinese perspective in that in that regard. Yeah. Great video as always. 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