“He is very creative and smart and contributed so much to the dialog,” he said about the Oscar winner.ĭamon, meanwhile, remains a major draw in China: his last film, The Martian, performed exceedingly well in the world’s second-largest film market. On casting Damon, Yimou said he feels “very fortunate” to have worked with the actor. “We are using Hollywood film-making to introduce Chinese culture.”
“What I really want is to bring Chinese color and cultural background to the worldwide audience through a film language that they are familiar with,” he added.
The Daily Beast’s Jen Yamato wrote that the Jason Bourne star looks to be portraying a typical white savior archetype, recalling Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans, Kevin Costner in Dances With Wolves, and many other examples.Ī number of Twitter users were quick to voice their concerns, with one saying: “At what point do you think the people who made The Great Wall going to realize casting Matt Damon as a lead was a mistake?” Another called the trailer “#whitewashing at its finest.”īefore the teaser’s debut, Yimou told Entertainment Weekly that The Great Wall is “first and foremost, an English-language film, and a Hollywood blockbuster”.
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