Talk:Lists of Chinese films

Combining List of Hong Kong films & Chinese films

I see there are alot of people working on these 2 lists. If you guys are willing to merge the two list together, I can make an effort to plug info available from the Hong Kong Film Archive. That would fill alot of gaps and overlaps between 1913 to 2003. See link here. What that list is still missing is alot of mainland films. For example Purple Butterfly was not on the list. Let me know what you guys think. Maybe we can have a region column, with PRC/HK. Is there a mainland downloadable movie pdf somewhere? Benjwong 01:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Against I'm not for it, both for practical and substantive reasons. Practical, just because there are a LOT of Hong Kong films, and combining the two lists might be overly ambitious, and substantively just because HK cinema is almost always seen as distinct from cinema from the mainland. Granted the two cinemas were much closer together in the pre-PRC days, but combining the two lists doesn't make too much sense. If we did, we might have to combine the Taiwan list too... Tryptofeng 06:06, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Against. The Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong film industries have been very independent of each other both in terms of operation and filming styles. Although in recent years there have been a growing trend of extensive cooperations between the two, each production still unmistakably bears either a "Mainland" or "Hong Kong" style stamp. Should significant ambiguity arises, the film should then be placed under both the List of Hong Kong films and the List of Chinese films. --Plastictv 06:13, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Totally against -what on earth?? not only are the cinema industries seperate (you can't see merging Cinema of China and Cinema of Hong Kong pages can you?? I known since 1997 some of the films are part of both industries but as the lists develop a mergedpage for both would become ridiculously long anyway. Definately not -they need to develop that all ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 14:43, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Against - Regardless of how closely related the mainland Chinese and HK film industries may or may not be, I'm against this for the simple reason that the Hong Kong list would be pretty long just by itself. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 14:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

No prob - Appreciate the opinions. Can we maybe rename the list to "list of mainland films"? Hong Kong and other regions can be considered Chinese too. Btw if the goal is not to have every film, why don't we settle for category pages? The HK list if complete would be about 3MB long. Benjwong 15:10, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

BTW - I was part of the animelist project. The "list of Anime" and "list of notable Anime" were deleted for indiscriminate collection of information after a few years, since they were too long to ever be completed. The end result is we categorized each film by decades. The category list then self-sorted everything and we had a Anime#Lists. Maybe this is the approach to take instead? Opinions? Benjwong 15:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)