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The fact that the government doesn’t get to step in and insist on sanitized portrayals of American life is a huge part of why Hollywood has the soft power it do
by jumelles 7y ago
The fact that the government doesn’t get to step in and insist on sanitized portrayals of American life is a huge part of why Hollywood has the soft power it does. Even the ratings system is technically opt-in and was set up by the studios to avoid a government ratings agency. (The MPAA has plenty of problems to be sure, but these days films can just be released unrated anyway.)
- coldtea 7y ago>The fact that the government doesn’t get to step in and insist on sanitized portrayals of American life is a huge part of why Hollywood has the soft power it does. Well, as a European cinephile, I find the portrayals of American life in most Hollywood films (even the 'gritty' ones) so soapy and sanitized, that the government doesn't need to bother. The last decades Hollywood movies with any real bite (the way, e.g. Dog Day Afternoon once had) are few and far between. I'd say the "soft power" is more due to Hollywood being a kind of McDonalds for movie-goers, and the bigger budgets allowing no continued competition on this front from other parts of the world (whereas a European cop flick or western could compete visually with the average Hollywood one up until around the mid-late 70s).