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> We should pay more attention there, but it's complicated, and doesn't make for great, populist filmmaking. I would say otherwise. Watch the first season of B
by poisonborz 6y ago
> We should pay more attention there, but it's complicated, and doesn't make for great, populist filmmaking.
I would say otherwise. Watch the first season of Babylon Berlin.
- jariel 6y agoOh yeah, that's amazing. But by 'populist' I don't mean 'Foreign films with subtitles' I mean 'American Tanker Crew Defeats Entire German Panzer Division starring Brad Pitt and Jason Stratham, Directed by Guy Ritchie, Produced by Michael Bay' - which is how I think most people around the world learn History and Geography, and which are the only kinds of major films Hollywood makes. Regular people do not read or watch documentaries. HN readers and their peers are not 'regular' people. [1] https://www.pewforum.org/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-about-the-holocaust/ https://www.pewforum.org/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-abou...
- poisonborz 6y agoBabylon Berlin was a action/erotic/murder mistery-filled series on Netflix, with english dubbing. I doubt you can get more "populist" than that. If you mean very specifically a Hollywood-made movie: why should Americans deal with this topic? It is more appropriately made by a society that had more connections to these events. But even so, you see counter-examples, eg. Jojo Rabbit, which is about a small german town, post-WWII. "trending periods" as a topic of filmmaking changes constantly. See how in the last decade a lot of people cried out about lack of coverage on WWI, and then came "1917" or Battlefield One.