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Sky Fighters
歼十出击
2011 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Ning Haiqiang
Top Gun Chinese style. Yue Tianlong and Yin Shuanghu are top J-10 pilots and rivals. They have to reconcile their differences in order to successfully perform a training exercise and secure China's precious airspace.
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No, there are two different strategies. One is to promote your own worldview as good. The other is to make a lot of noise and confuse enough people that nothing happens.
Current example of the first: "Absolute Loyalty to the National Interest".[1] This is a propaganda movie from China. It even says so in the credits, which list "Publicity department of Quindao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China", "Publicity department of CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee", and "Propaganda Corporation". Tencent distributes it. This is classic old-style heavy-handed self-promotion. The classic of that genre is "Sky Fighters" (2011), when the PLA air force made, directly, their very own ripoff of "Top Gun". It's considered the worst movie ever made about fighter jets. Since then, most Chinese movies have some propaganda content to keep the censors happy and get the Golden Dragon stamp of approval, but newer content is 90% entertainment, 10% propaganda. There might be a plug for the cops or COMAC.
Examples of the second are so easy to find today that it's not necessary to list any.
[1] https://viewasian.co/watch/absolute-loyalty-to-the-national-interest-2021/watching.html?ep=1