Discussion CN Novels face slapping scenes

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  1. ShioriSai

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    Does Chinese Authors have a lot of pent up anger, so they're taking it out on their face slapping scenes?

    just some thought, just some thought, just some thought....
     
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    Nope, it's just a standard troupe of most CHN novels AFAIK
     
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    Well... I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case :hmm:
     
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    Juho Woo made me realize that there's another way of approaching something like that. (Specially that scene where he confronted the Yun Woo impostor alone, the girl could have been in much worse)
     
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    I just thought it was funny..... somehow
     
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    After the face slap(‘s) they look like a Pig.
     
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    Or all Chinese authors have a lot of pent up anger, then it became a standard troupe, so they could release some of that anger?
     
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    Or they just want to get in touch with audience "emotions"
     
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    Probably chinese culture, in dramas and gu dai there s quite a bit of slapping
     
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    and the readers swallow them up ⊂((・⊥・))⊃
     
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    Authors channel their inner rage in proper medium which are characters that represent some people they might consider to slap but decide not to because ethical issue.
     
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    More like they see a scene (ie the face slapping), see that it's popular, incorporate it into their story, others see theirs, repeat ad infinitum
    It's kinda like when you see a scene in the movie that you feel it's similar to another older movie (ie: the face slapping, eye poking & angry Curly from The Three Stooges, was reenacted by Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon or parodies of famous scenes played on other movies w/ Leslie Nielsen as main actor)
     
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    That might explain why CN mc tend to be rather kill happy or use excessive force at least for cultivation novels.
     
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    Maybe one guy wrote a great face slapping scene which got a lot of success and every chinese author decided to do the same, hoping it will work as well... Some of them had some success, more authors did the same, and now there is face slapping everywhere in chinese litterature because plagiarism is a word that doesn't exist in chinese and if a successfull novel used something, every author need to add the same stuff to their novel to succeed ... :blobpopcorn_cool: ...

    Yeah, I know, the trolling bait was a little too obvious here...
     
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    Probably because there's a lot of social stratification with the rich and powerful oppressing poorer folks. You read a lot of this in Korean novels and films too. Some of the earliest face-slapping examples I can remember is usually a "poor looking" MC who's actually really rich, showing up to some nouveau-riche young master. Then the face-slapping idea got extended to all sorts of situations.

    I do think what's almost unique/odd with CN novels is their insistence on portraying cuckolding situations.
    Every protagonist had a woman that betrayed them, slept with another man, or treated MC in a demeaning manner.
    I dunno what the hell is wrong with CN authors in that regard.
     
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    Some of them were just too......extreme ●︿●
     
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    Some novels made me drop it because of that, makes me uncomfortable reading it.
     
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    Probably leftover feelings from their porn. Those ads always go on about incest and having a go at the poor lonely housewife/sister-in-law/daughter-in-law/stepmother.
     
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    Now that you mentioned it, they do have a lot of those too
     
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    Lmao