Cityspeak from Blade Runner (2002)
I rewatched this the other night. Cityspeak was great as a concept and the way it was portrayed in the film, but the poorly done Chinese graffiti that appeared on walls and buildings at various points harmed the cinematic vision of this future city (well, for me at least). It was clearly drawn by someone, probably not a native speaker or writer, copying simple phrases or making up sentences from a dictionary (中國人好，美國人不好, "Chinese good, Americans bad").<p>Chinese has a long history of slogans, 4-character idioms, and graffiti. How hard could it have been to find someone -- an artist, calligrapher, or even a non-artist who grew up in Asia (almost everyone learns calligraphy basics using brushes in secondary school) -- to do it better?<p>Or is the idea cityspeakers are clumsily writing random Chinese stuff on the walls?