I was reading over the Wikipedia pages for the films I watched in my Contemporaneity Chinese Film class to prepare for the midterm. The Wikipedia page for the first film we saw, Monster Hunt/捉妖记, mentioned that many of the scenes were shot in Zhanghjiajie national park. What is interesting is whoever made the signs for the park didn't mention that a relatively new (released in 2015 with a squeal coming in 2018) and very popular (Monster Hunt is the highest grossing local Chinese film of all time) was shot there. The only film that had signs and locations about it in Zhangjiajie was Avatar, a foreign film. Perhaps it is because even though Monster Hunt was successful it wasn't nearly as successful as Avatar. Perhaps the foreign film, Avatar, was easier to market than the local film, Monster Hunt.
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