startling lack of pr or promotion of any kind for shanghai before the movie dropped in theaters it is in theaters now by the way you should go and watch it it's pretty good go support but the movie's been surrounded by a lot of controversy since it was first announced and today we're just gonna do first a deep dive into the history of shanghai as a character in the marvel comics and why a lot of people and specifically like people from china are not pleased with the character that marvel chose we're also going to be looking into why i feel like shanghai has gotten a kind of lackluster promotional push compared to other marvel movies of its kind and we're just gonna end with kind of discussing whether this movie is a redemption art question mark for marvel or whether it falls into the same stereotypical traps that a lot of you know this type of movie usually does does that sound as big sense probably not um but yeah like we're just going to get into it so go ahead and sit back relax subscribe and let's get into it but first i just want to thank the sponsor of today's video likewise if you can't already tell i'm a huge marvel slash superhero fan and after watching black widow a couple months ago and shanghai a few days ago i've been looking for tv shows that are similar to those movies like superhero-esque tv shows but i didn't really know where to look which is where likewise comes in the likewise app is the best place to discover and share recommendations for movies tv shows podcasts and more likewise it's powered by a combination of smart technology and real-life people giving real recommendations so that you'll never run out of things to watch and one of my favorite things about this app is that you can scroll through movie and tv show recommendations you can read full movie and tv show descriptions and look at ratings and comments from other users and then save them right to your watch list if you're interested and from there they'll let you know exactly where you can watch it and take you right to that app and getting set up on likewise is super easy all you have to do is select the genres you're interested in click a few movies and shows you've liked in the past and then you'll get personalized recommendations on your feed right on the today tab if you're interested you can go ahead and click the download link right at the top of my description box it's URL_TOKEN it's free you can follow me right on the app on demand and downloading the app is a great way to support my channel so yeah i'd really appreciate it if you check it out and as always thank you so so so so much to my patrons i love you all so much all right let's get right into it so for me to you know prove to you that there's a problem i have to kind of walk you through why it was so important for disney slash marvel to get this movie right because shanghai just as a marvel character has an incredibly problematic history so much so that this movie hasn't even been greenlit to show in china yet and it's inspired a lot of uproar in china and on chinese social media websites um kind of talking about the anti-chinese sentiment baked into the surrounding of
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN first i just want to thank the sponsor of today's video likewise if you can't already tell i'm a huge marvel slash superhero fan and after watching black widow a couple months ago and shanghai a few days ago i've been looking for tv shows that are similar to those movies like superhero-esque tv shows but i didn't really know where to look which is where likewise comes in the likewise app is the best place to discover and share recommendations for movies tv shows podcasts and more likewise it's powered by a combination of smart technology and real-life people giving real recommendations so that you'll never run out of things to watch and one of my favorite things about this app is that you can scroll through movie and tv show recommendations you can read full movie and tv show descriptions and look at ratings and comments from other users and then save them right to your watch list if you're interested and from there they'll let you know exactly where you can watch it and take you right to that app and getting set up on likewise is super easy all you have to do is select the genres you're interested in click a few movies and shows you've liked in the past and then you'll get personalized recommendations on your feed right on the today tab if you're interested you can go ahead and click the download link right at the top of my description box it's URL_TOKEN it's free you can follow me right on the app on demand and downloading the app is a great way to support my channel so yeah i'd really appreciate it if you check it out and as always thank you so so so so much to my patrons i love you all so much END_SPONSOR_TOKEN