Think about it: real estate, our college education system, and entertainment- which includes Hollywood and our sports industry-are our biggest commodities! For films, China will soon be the biggest marketplace in the world. It's one of the big three American exports we have that the Chinese want. We have an amazing export here in Hollywood called movies. When the SEC was cracking down on DMG's operations, he framed it in terms regarding world safety. He sees the movie-making aspect of his work as an example of ping-pong diplomacy between the two nations. I truly do." I walked over to the water cooler. So, I figured I'd take the United Nations approach. It does feel a bit like I'm a communist sympathizer though, with all the stuff we're asking for. And that whole diplomacy thing sounds too rainbows and unicorns." "Stephen, will you please escort Dan and Chris out of the room so we can discuss this," Kevin asked.
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Okay, that all sounded a bit peace-hippie-utopian when I said it out loud to a room full of Marvel executives that day, but I did believe it. And that will make the world a much safer place for all of us." It's a glue that binds the two superpowers, and Marvel can be at the epicenter while adding to that glue and manufacturing a much stronger bilateral bond. That cultural collaboration will create commerce, which will make the bilateral relationship stronger. By being a platform for culture, Marvel can bring the two countries closer together by collaborating with China through a Chinese studio, DMG, to make Iron Man 3. And right now, those avenues are open for business between the two countries, though they could use some strengthening. So that leaves us with the other two forces: culture and commerce. Best case, we agree to disagree with them on all three. And frankly, we will never be able to change their minds, either. Three forces we don't agree with China on-at all.
Three of those five forces are politics, national security, and human rights. You need at least one force, or bar, working to keep the connection.
Marvel can do it through movies… It means that like a cell phone, there are five bars of service that keep countries working together versus going to war, or at least starting a cold war. It's diplomacy, and one created by culture. "Look, I get this is a bit foreign to everyone here, so let me mention another reason to do this deal with us. He told Kevin Feige and the others, with his DMG partner Dan Mintz. Failure would surely result in the opposite effect.Īnd he talks about a theory of his which later in the book he uses in an address to Marvel executives, we mentioned in a previous article regarding proposed plot changes in Iron Man 3. We were bridging a cultural gap, making the world smaller, more stable, less contentious, and much safer. We were doing more than opening a market or making nice with China. We were pulling a rival country's culture into our own. But as an American, something bigger was at stake. I felt a sense of mission that went far beyond box-office numbers. Like most ambassadors, I had developed a love and loyalty to my adoptive country. How Chris Fenton Tried to Save The World With Iron Man 3 and LooperĮarly in the book, which begins with Robert Downey Jr's Beijing red carpet, he writes And while much of Fenton's motivation is making money, as well as explaining what's really in it for China, he also talked about his own motivations. You can follow along with a few I wrote with this tag looking at his adventures in high-international movie-making between the USA and China, including Looper and Iron Man 3 – as well as The World's Strongest Man, Hanson, and more – and turning Chinese peasant farmers into security men for one day, catching Robert Downey Jr fans falling out of trees on the red carpet at The Forbidden City. I recently read it, and it made for quite the page-turner, and there are so many nuggets to share. Fenton was president of the China-based DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group, General Manager of DMG North America (owners of Valiant Comics), and Senior Advisor to IDW Media Holdings. Over the last couple of months, Bleeding Cool has covered a lot of stories featured in Chris Fenton's book Feeding The Dragon.
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