Chinese Wedding Video Impress Netizens, Spreads Online

by Fauna on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 49 comments

Here is another video that is being shared a lot on Kaixin001. It is a wedding video that many people think was made very well:

Comments from Tudou:

观光土豆:

I don’t see what is so great about it!! The editing for my own wedding 10 years ago is no worse than this. The coordination between the music and the pictures in this are even a little inferior. And it should have included some ambient sounds. It would have been even better!

观光土豆:

They used a bangzi song? They will have to listen to it for the rest of their lives. Such a tragedy.

观光土豆:

Very moving. I hope they will live together to an old age. A very well-made film.

hazelnuts10 海外:

Amongst wedding films, this one was truly done well, very beautiful~~

观光土豆:

I shed tears watching it, very moving, and the first time I have been moved by a stranger’s wedding.

观光土豆:

TangChi Impression, from Shanghai, Tianjin also has a similar company, and apparently costs 7000 kuai, however that is only for the editing, and it would be even more expensive if including the filming.

观光土豆:

What a blessed/happy feeling, I want to get married~~~

9.观光土豆

So touching, maybe this is one of the weddings that all women look forward to~

观光土豆

The groom is so handsome, haha! This kind of wedding is too touching.

What do you think of this wedding video? Is it very impressive or only average?

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kalo

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 1:22 pm

FIRST

such a great wedding :)

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Ryu

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 1:35 pm

Shanzai

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Weinsteinlogowhite.png

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- Ed
  
  Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 11:09 pm
  
  also like typical chinese fashion they have to copy the western world. They should be proud and just make their own logo cause that weinsteinlogo had nothing to do with tangchi impression company it’s a giant W people! Kinda embarassing.
  
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too yellow

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm

this video is sooooo loooonnnnnggg

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Jordan

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 2:54 pm

ordinary…. Not impressed.

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krdr

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 3:17 pm

got bored on 0:30. This just shows how western style wedding are big phenomenon in China. In USA, weddings are 4th industry. Soon, it will be in China, too.

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paul tergeist

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 4:30 pm

ok, filming and editing not bad, I guess it’s easy when mom and dad have money to waste
but they’re both so ugly they had to oversaturate the light most of the time… thus they’ll end up together for long, that’s sure.

oh, and the music.. please, my ears are bleeding!!

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Shopgirls Shanghai

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 4:47 pm

whats the point!?

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Hang

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Yeah, I was bored by the video. How about a nice and simple wedding?

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Rick in China

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 pm

I’ll (hopefully) marry at a quiet reception, and have a ridiculous vacation. None of which will be posted on the internet.

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Kage Musha

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 6:46 pm

lol @ all those commentators about simple wedding and how ugly the people are. It reeks of jealousy.

Is it that bad that a woman wants a big wedding? You are supposed to marry only once. So it’s not so bad to want a nice wedding.

And wether they’re ugly or not does not matter (and especially not to you commentators). As long they love eachother and can care for eachother.

Really lame comments here and on those BBS.

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- laowai22
  
  Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm
  
  “Really lame comments here and on those BBS.”
  
  I agree – while not so bad in this thread, the comments on chinasmack are getting more and more juvenile. People just say stupid stuff that they would never say in real life.
  
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  - Tom2
    
    Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 2:00 pm
    
    ChinaSMACK could be something really special and made a big initial splash, but the lack of monitoring of comments, and topic development is making it an embarrassing website to recommend to non China types. It has the potential to be a great insight to popular topics and show people more of china then what they read in the main media.
    
    What is it with the eleven years olds, who get all excited about being the first person that makes a post?
    
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    - Kai
      
      Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 4:14 pm
      
      I bet Fauna’s caught between a rock and a hard place. She could either censor/moderate more and get damned for, you know, restricting free speech like the totalitarian regime she ostensibly hails from OR she could censor/moderate less and get damned for letting racism, immaturity, and idiocy thrive on chinaSMACK.
      
      What would you have her/them do?
      
      Until you guys can articulate some policy for “monitoring of comments” that she accepts, use the freaking VOTE BUTTONS on each comment. She’s empowered you guys to manage yourselves, right? Do your civic duty or something. Mobilize others to help you. You’re all for freedom and democracy, right? Help rebuke Jackie Chan wrong, and show the Chinese how <a href=”“>Westerners/foreigners don’t need to be “controlled.”
      
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      - Tom2
        
        Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 4:57 pm
        
        Okay as always you are correct. Let’s see then, it is early days but using the comments rating system as a measure we are currently 1:0 with those that found my point positive compared to yours with no response. Please don’t mobilize your fan base, as that would be an unfair advantage.
      - Kai
        
        Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 10:10 pm
        
        While I can’t prevent it, I personally wouldn’t want the rating system to be used as a popularity content. I’m just saying that she intentionally added the feature so the commenters themselves could regulate each other. Over on CNR, I have no qualms of ruling tyrannically, but Fauna’s given everyone the power to squelch the idiots. You only need (I think) 10 negative votes to hide a stupid comment.
        
        Moreover, I bet it’s incredibly tiring for her to sift through all the comments, trying to understand all that English, and make summary judgments. I can understand if she’d rather not do it because she doesn’t have the time or the patience. I personally would rather she spend her time finding more popular stories from China’s discussion forums, and let the commenters take some responsibility in shaping the “community” here. Seriously, this website is free for everyone, I think we can afford to watch after ourselves, right?
      - Chris
        
        Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 4:00 am
        
        OH I know. Have the people democratically VOTE on which comments to sensor. Like the spam button on Youtube. THERE YOU GO. Problem solved.
      - Tom2
        
        Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 7:56 am
        
        currently 3:2 – voting ends once the next new topic is posted
      - Fauna
        
        Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 10:13 am
        
        I translate stupid Chinese netizen comments so I normally allow foreigners to show that they make stupid comments also.
        
        I will try to do a better job monitoring the comments but I hope you can use the voting also.
      - Kai
        
        Friday, May 8, 2009 at 10:26 am
        
        Wow, Fauna’s comment is both interesting and damning.
        
        So here’s the thing: What’s more important? Fair representation or maintaining a website that encourages people to participate and converse with each other (er, in more productive ways than racist or trollish grunting)? Doing one seems to negatively affect the other, and I certainly can see the rationale for both sides.
        
        I will go ahead and argue that leaving stupid comments up to remind people of how stupid “their own” can be will do more harm than good. Why? Because most self-righteous hypocrites will never really acknowledge or admit that “their own” is or can be as bad as “the others” they so viciously generalize or racially attack. On the other hand, most reasonably intelligent people already avoid making racist comments or generalizations because they implicitly know such comments don’t hold up. As a result, I suspect leaving up stupid comments discourages the intelligent people from participating because they don’t like the environment of idiocy, while actually encouraging more stupidity because the stupid people think they can either get away with it or they’re just joining a crowd of people that agree with them.
        
        Anyway, I made my own comment policy clear on CNR: It is your website, you’re free to do as you please with it, whiners be damned.
    - Mercator
      
      Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 9:58 pm
      
      I think the “eleven years olds, who get all excited about being the first person that makes a post?” is just a bit of silly harmless fun.
      
      But the general air of idiocy is starting to annoy.
      
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Nanjinged

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Neither Very Yellow nor Very Violent… disapointing…….

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月

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 8:42 pm

看来这里大部分都是男人，我是女的，看了就很感动的，哎~ 男人就是大线条，没有情调。

哈哈哈，我现在确定Fauna肯定是个还没有结婚的年轻女孩子

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- Rocketship
  
  Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 5:17 pm
  
  no. men simply are not impressed with mediocrity and phoniness. you can whine about how men don’t have情调 and whatnot but the fact of the matter is, all the greatest romances have been written by men, because romances are 大线条. women can only write erotic novels because thats the 情调.
  
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Ed

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 11:04 pm

This wedding is like every other wedding, someone’s special day to them but to me it’s just another wedding video.

I’m not so sure why everyone thinks the video is soo nice. I think it’s badly done, why? there’s too much damn flipping from scene to scene, no scene lasts more than 1/2 a second and bam they throw on another one while the last one barely registered. It seems as if they don’t have enough good footage to show and had to jam in bits of another one, it’s like a math flash card game! I’ve seen better video where it acutally holds you onto the scene and sucks you into the symbolism that one scene does. I had to stop at the 7 minute mark cause I was getting a headache trying to get the visuals. I’m sorry but it’s a really badly done movie. Music is subjective and everyones tastes are different so that can easily be changed.

The bride and groom are nice looking and there’s nothing to say about that and that’s not what i’m commenting on (pretty or ugly is not the subject here for me beauty is in the eye of the beholder). Also like an above poster stated DO NOT oversaturate the entire damn movie here it’s kinda too much of a neat camera trick that ruins it. imagine an entire major movie was done like this?! gah! yeah you get the idea it’s not the 1970′s anymore. And the blurriness is too much but that might be the youtube type conversion killing it so i can’t really comment.

My gosh if someone was epileptic they’d be seizuring right now!

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Victor Chau

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 11:45 pm

Who do they think they are? Liza Minnelli and David Gest?

Typical over the top Chinese style wedding faking Western weddings.

And where was the mahjong? One thing I dun understand about Chinese weddings is they are not about having fun. Just a circus-like spectacle wrapped up by rounds of toasting and collecting oranges.

And the catwalk?? puhlease! Enough already.

And how can anyone actually shed tears watching this video?

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je ch oo

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Video editing and post production work is excellent and on par with small production tv programs. The amount of time doing the editing and audio sync is considerable and shows the person’s expertise. Well done.
As for the sociology of the wedding video, I can only comment that the couple’s family were well off and wanted the couple to have a great wedding. Its not that different that in the USA. Could that money have been spent on much better things like a down payment for a flat or putting it into a savings account for a possible rainy day or something for their children? Of course, but then again, most people don’t value things when they get older, they value memories and experiences.
So to sum up, they could afford it, it came out nice, good luck to them.

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lenovo

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 12:26 am

According to my estimation, the cost of the wedding should be less than $30,000 USD, I don’t think it is a big problem for Chinese these days.

If I myself schedule a wedding, I don’t mind spending $30,000 on it.

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- Vinowank
  
  Friday, May 8, 2009 at 11:11 pm
  
  That’s so expensive… I got my Chinese bride on the internet for 10,000 yuan. We had a wedding for less than 2,000 yuan (wedding ceremony, reception, video, hotel, honeymoon for 2 people) – now that’s good value for money.
  
  China the best place to get married. If only they would lift the one child policy….
  
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lenovo

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 12:38 am

The pictures about the new couple can be found here
http://www.z-lstudio.com/bbs/dispbbs.asp?boardid=2&Id=1073

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- Ed
  
  Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 3:26 am
  
  Looking at the pics and not judging the looks of the bride and groom the pics are really well done. I love their play of colour and constrast to the background from the subject. But unfortunately the photos and video aren’t the same company, the photo work was really good there.
  
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meso

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 1:44 am

Yawn…The groom looks like a butch dyke!

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booyah

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 3:19 am

This is nothing but a quick slide show of moving pics one after another!?!?

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Yan Xishan

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 3:29 am

I made it about 45 seconds into the video before wanting to wretch. That much cheese needs wine and crackers to be palatable.

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Alikese

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 5:22 am

Everything is so over done. I would feel so embarrassed if huge photoshopped pictures of me in front of churches were on the internet. It seems like such unabashed narcissism.

I suppose I won’t ever understand the Chinese’s penchant for Glamor Shots of themselves that they can show to friends.

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- meep
  
  Friday, May 8, 2009 at 11:27 am
  
  >I suppose I won’t ever understand the Chinese’s penchant for Glamor Shots of themselves that they can show to friends.
  
  Well how could you posssibly understand the “Chinese” penchant when you assume this one video represents the majority.
  
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Capt. Absurdity

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 9:13 am

I was gonna say something negative but what the hell, I was at some wedding (I doubt Capt. Absurdity is going to get to be a groomsmen for awhile after this) and ultimately it is something for the couple…for the girl…and a little bit for the guy. It is their moment to shine one in the life time thing. For me I just want to hit up the strip joints and forget about all the stupidity around me! Yeah yeah! (A non-religious guy at a very religious wedding pretending to be religious just tickles my inner funny bones!!! Haha if you read this I’m sorry bud but I don’t believe in that stuff man!)

I don’t think I will ever get to this level of happiness. I think I will remain forever unhappy, perverted, lonely and sick of humanity on my kick-ass boat out here in the middle of nowhere bobbing on waves and waiting for pirates; while commenting on Chinasmack, of course!!

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blue water

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 9:41 am

Simple minds, simple pleasures.

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fireworks

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 10:06 am

I’ve seen a few wedding videos. This maybe slightly better in editing. Other than that, its just a wedding video.

My advice, spend the money on the honeymoon.

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Mark

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 10:55 am

I thought it was well done but nothing special, just a live action version of the glamor photos that Chinese people are so fond of. Most Chinese girls would love to have their wedding turned into the intro to a Korean soap opera :-P

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goldenbarn

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 6:06 pm

never understand those lavish weddings. after all its just a one-day show.

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- meso
  
  Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 12:35 am
  
  It’s more about the illusion of success and happiness. “Look at me world, I’ve found my soul mate and I am complete! Please envy me!” They’ll feel differently after the 3rd divorce.
  
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Phil7

Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 5:17 am

Hmmm, could it be that Chinese girls prefer to have a great wedding with an average guy than an average wedding with a great and suitable husband?
It might be a great show … but after all it’s only a show, only day no. 1. The real test for the couple will start after the wedding.
But then again, they are excited and look happy, it’s a good start.

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ML

Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 10:04 am

The groom is so handsome!! he looks like one of those korean actors. Very nice film production. The camerasmen did a good job capturing the genuine happiness felt by the couple and other people.

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bert

Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Waste of money. The woman looks psycho. A wedding is about union and true celebration not spending money for the sake of showing off.

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Overseas Chinese

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 5:36 am

The editing is done well…but it seems rather impersonal. It is just like watching another mass produced video done by a studio.

My personal preference is minimal editing. Wedding memories should include warts and all.

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Tony

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 1:15 pm

It’s pretty good, but not that extraordinary.

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WinGal

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 7:09 am

It doesn’t look like a real wedding.The wedding banquet is like a variety show…Or the couple got trucks of money to burn.
It is more like a commercial.

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ImmortalTechnique

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Culture seeped in showboating and concepts of ‘face’ + lavish weddings = match made in heaven!

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