Movies in General
- Thread starter bladerunner
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Anyway, I just got done watching "The Martian" film last night and I love it! I hope it gets some Academy Awards nominations. It is by far the best and most real scientific situation space movies out there, more so than Interstellar, Gravity, and Apollo 13.
While we are on the subject:
The Hateful Eight was good. It is a dark comedy/mystery thriller, a pulp fiction homage to spaghetti westerns by Quentin Tarantino with a more honest yet cynical sensibility about that period of US history thrown in. If you enjoyed any of his other movies you will probably know what to expect and like the vibe of this one.
If Hollywood really were catering their products to supposed Chinese racism, and let's throw in sexism as well, then Hollywood movies should be full of Chinese lead actors rescuing and getting it on with maidens of all races while sidekicks of other races goof around or get killed off. But that's not what's happening so.
I think that there is actually a good chance of this happening if Hollywood could routinely keep 50% of their gross at the China market.
Equation
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I doubt it. I will say it has to be 98% of their gross in the China market it order for it to happen. Remember Hollywood only cares about a guaranteed.
Movie theater owners will boycott the film (and/or start an insurrection) long before that happens lol.
AssassinsMace
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The Hollywood industry is one of the jewels of the West. It's not just about making movies and TV shows. It also includes the industry of celebrity where you have agents, managers, publicists, the Hollywood media, and even hair dressers all dependent on celebrities they're in business for are big and successful because that means the more money they make. That's why you see this controversy over the Oscars over diversity in their own market. If there's this controversy within their own society, you better it's even more internationally. They don't want foreign Chinese actors becoming big because that means less money for them. This is also the absurdity where you see Hollywood complaining about that they don't want to have to cater to Chinese audiences by adding Chinese elements just for their movies to be shown in China and also they want unrestricted access to show any of their movies in China. Why? Because they want to train Chinese audiences like they have done in their own domestic market to spurn foreign movies and only like Hollywood ones. Sometimes when I comment in the Hollywood trades where people are complaining about this, I'll thrown in a comment that if China is so unfair to Hollywood then get out. That always throws them. Why, because there's this assumption everyone in the world loves Hollywood movies. There's this assumption that everyone in the world would rather see a white Westerner being the hero and saving the world. And now you know why Hollywood isn't diverse. That's what they tell themselves to justify it. It's not them. It's you! Same logic as Bill Maher's comment that it's China's fault not Hollywood if there's racism.
Hollywood's value also comes from being the number one propaganda machine promoting the West. Can't have a Chinese hero or have them saving the world. Only Westerners are responsible enough to know what's best for the world. You can see why there's resistance to Chinese influence in Hollywood. And you can see why they also want to access and dominate China. They're paranoid that China will do what they're doing now.
Hollywood's value also comes from being the number one propaganda machine promoting the West. Can't have a Chinese hero or have them saving the world. Only Westerners are responsible enough to know what's best for the world. You can see why there's resistance to Chinese influence in Hollywood. And you can see why they also want to access and dominate China. They're paranoid that China will do what they're doing now.