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> Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. I don’t think Korea won a single award at the Oscars this year. They won a single golden gl

> Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. I don’t think Korea won a single award at the Oscars this year. They won a single golden globe and two Emmys. It’s just parasite and squid game, so far. They are very far from sweeping the award ceremonies.

echelon 4y ago
I was referring to Parasite, which won six Oscars, including the coveted Best Picture and Best Director nods. That was two years ago, but it speaks to the new high water mark Korea is now hitting at.
- otikik 4y ago
  Isn’t that a bit like saying that Australians are great at playing piano and singing songs and cracking jokes about religion because Tim Minchin exists?
  - coldtea 4y ago
    No, it's more like observing that a region with 30%+ of the world's population is rising (economically, influence, cultural appeal wise, and so in) and another with a paltry 350M one appears to have had its heyday... The US had a couple of Tim Minchins back in the 18th century too, and even up to the early 20th century it wasn't that much of a deal in terms of global cultural cachet. As for GDP terms it only surpassed Great Britain around 1880 and then had its global share peak in 1960. It's been downhill since.
    - otikik 4y ago
      Ah! I see. Have a wonderful day.
    - imwillofficial 4y ago
    - oarabbus_ 4y ago
      >As for GDP terms it only surpassed Great Britain around 1880 and then had its global share peak in 1960. It's been downhill since. If you have a bizarre, adversarial world where someone else's gain is your loss, then sure. In nominal terms it's been uphill since.
- oarabbus_ 4y ago
  >The age of the "American" film has already peaked. >edit for downvotes: Do not confuse this post for anti-American sentiment. It's an honest current and forward-looking assessment. I don't think it's "anti-American sentiment" as much as unsubstantiated claims. Parasite was an excellent film I thought deserves all its praise. But "Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars" is a very different statement than "Bong Joon-ho and the Parasite team swept the 2019 Oscars". What you're claiming is that American cinema has peaked, and "Hollywood is going to be washed out". A more reasonable statement is "The age of exclusively USA/Hollywood filmmaking awards is over".
  - agileAlligator 4y ago
    > The age of the "American" film has already peaked. I kinda sorta agree with this sentiment. I am a huge film buff, and most of the movies I remember fondly are from the 90s (can't blame this on nostalgia since I wasn't even alive then)
rurban 4y ago
Korea is the dominant movie producing country of the last decade. Not much of this boom arrived in western cinemas, but festival goers do know. And sooner or later the superior quality will sweep over to the mainstream. Parasite is just a relatively minor movie compared to the really big ones. https://koreanfilm.org/ https://koreanfilm.org/ might give a good overview.

echelon 4y ago

I was referring to Parasite, which won six Oscars, including the coveted Best Picture and Best Director nods. That was two years ago, but it speaks to the new high water mark Korea is now hitting at.

otikik 4y ago
Isn’t that a bit like saying that Australians are great at playing piano and singing songs and cracking jokes about religion because Tim Minchin exists?
- coldtea 4y ago
  No, it's more like observing that a region with 30%+ of the world's population is rising (economically, influence, cultural appeal wise, and so in) and another with a paltry 350M one appears to have had its heyday... The US had a couple of Tim Minchins back in the 18th century too, and even up to the early 20th century it wasn't that much of a deal in terms of global cultural cachet. As for GDP terms it only surpassed Great Britain around 1880 and then had its global share peak in 1960. It's been downhill since.
  - otikik 4y ago
    Ah! I see. Have a wonderful day.
  - imwillofficial 4y ago
  - oarabbus_ 4y ago
    >As for GDP terms it only surpassed Great Britain around 1880 and then had its global share peak in 1960. It's been downhill since. If you have a bizarre, adversarial world where someone else's gain is your loss, then sure. In nominal terms it's been uphill since.
oarabbus_ 4y ago
>The age of the "American" film has already peaked. >edit for downvotes: Do not confuse this post for anti-American sentiment. It's an honest current and forward-looking assessment. I don't think it's "anti-American sentiment" as much as unsubstantiated claims. Parasite was an excellent film I thought deserves all its praise. But "Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars" is a very different statement than "Bong Joon-ho and the Parasite team swept the 2019 Oscars". What you're claiming is that American cinema has peaked, and "Hollywood is going to be washed out". A more reasonable statement is "The age of exclusively USA/Hollywood filmmaking awards is over".
- agileAlligator 4y ago
  > The age of the "American" film has already peaked. I kinda sorta agree with this sentiment. I am a huge film buff, and most of the movies I remember fondly are from the 90s (can't blame this on nostalgia since I wasn't even alive then)

rurban 4y ago

Korea is the dominant movie producing country of the last decade. Not much of this boom arrived in western cinemas, but festival goers do know. And sooner or later the superior quality will sweep over to the mainstream. Parasite is just a relatively minor movie compared to the really big ones. https://koreanfilm.org/ https://koreanfilm.org/ might give a good overview.