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I believe there's more French or Japanese movies in a year than British ones, yet I never saw a French or Japanese movie in the US, even on TV. While there I sa
by hazov 14y ago
I believe there's more French or Japanese movies in a year than British ones, yet I never saw a French or Japanese movie in the US, even on TV. While there I saw one from NZ and one from Ireland, local production, actors and stuff, it was not a Lord of the Rings.
I think there's something about cultural similarity.
- evan_ 14y agoPeople want to watch movies with characters they can relate to.
- hazov 14y agoI believe it's something about cultural similarity, yes, but for me this relates more with cultural insularity[1], and how each culture relates to each other, much less about characters. [1]: This is a term by anti-americanists against anything relating to the USA, it's not my intention, I saw exactly the same thing happening in the UK, France, Israel, Germany, Ireland, Australia and Brazil., where I live
- hga 14y agoMy goodness, where and when did you grow up? For me, it was Joplin, Missouri (SW corner of the state, not considered to be a cosmopolitan part of the country), in the '70s (graduated from high school in '79). I had no access to TV beyond the network affiliates of the big 3 (ABC, CBS, and NBC). Yet somehow I was able to get interested in Japanese culture from the Kurosawa samurai movies one or more showed late at night.
- hazov 14y agoI grew up partly in São Paulo, Brazil (majority of time), and partly in Eilat, Israel (2 and a half years). I studied for 4 years in the USA (for my PhD in Applied Math), and my experience comes from this. The funny thing for me is that I'm married to a Japanese-Brazilian girl, although I'm not interested in Japanese culture at all. I stand corrected, but as I pointed out my experience comes from 4 years.