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Lots of creative Italians in Berlin and London. I reckon that's part of the reason. The climate in the country simply isn't supportive of artists. So they go el
by illumen 11y ago
Lots of creative Italians in Berlin and London. I reckon that's part of the reason. The climate in the country simply isn't supportive of artists. So they go elsewhere. To much more interesting places, where they can live well, and earn well.
As one personal example of someone I know in the industry who left... an Italian who left was not even getting paid for the subtitle translation work she was doing. For something like six months.
- masklinn 11y agoThere's that, but I'm not sure that's the end of it, France has seen similar decline despite pretty extreme cultural protectionism. Globalisation seems to be more of a "culprit": once upon a time, a country's local cultural production had a semi-captive audience (there was less foreign content and less of it moved from the original country to others, leaving more room for local production) and a much easier time competing (lower budgets, lower technological finesse and lower economies of scale all around). Today, there's more high-production-quality quickly-available content than ever, between more people being able to consume anglo content directly and home-grown sub scenes, international mostly-anglo content is easier than ever to access for individuals, and going the other way it's much harder for local content to break international markets because the accessibility is much lower the other way around, which means it's harder for local content to recoup the same production budgets.
- illumen 11y agoYes, there is definitely more 'content' available now. Also a lot more Italians are speaking English. Paris is an even worse place for artists to live and work. Make things affordable for artists, and artists won't leave. Society is much better when you have artists amongst your midst. When a media baron runs the country (like in Italy), it can't be good for the films being produced. Germany has a license fee twice as much as in Italy. (much Germany cinema is beyond terrible but). The UK also has a higher tv fee.
- bad_user 11y agoInteresting, but on the other hand affordable cities are not the cities that are desired, the price being often a supply and demand relationship. That Paris is an expensive city can only mean that the demand far exceeds the supply. San Francisco for example is amongst the most expensive cities on earth and personally I don't get its allure for software developers, especially given that we can work from anywhere, but it's probably about the potential. Software developers, much like artists, want investors and an audience.
- vanilla-almond 11y ago"it's much harder for local content to break international markets because the accessibility is much lower the other way around, which means it's harder for local content to recoup the same production budgets." How does this explain the success of Scandinavian crime dramas such as The Killing, The Bridge, Wallander? These have enjoyed much success in the UK and are always shown with subtitles. So success for foreign language drama is certainly possible in English speaking markets, and without dubbing either.
- masklinn 11y agoIf you read what your quoted, I said it was much harder for non-anglo content, not impossible.
- pervycreeper 11y ago>France has seen similar decline despite pretty extreme cultural protectionism. Despite?
- masklinn 11y ago>> France has seen similar decline despite pretty extreme cultural protectionism. > Despite? Yes?