Strawhorse

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by Strawhorse 5y ago
I think we were doing well until you brought in some pap like Mulan.
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
Tell that to Hollywood, man. A lot of their movies now are being passed by Chinese censors first with the domestic market somewhat of an afterthought. Interestingly, though, China hasn't produced a single decent movie in a decade or tw
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
I think the new Mulan fail was due to some social media shitstorm about the lead actress or something; the spastic Chinese internet trolls had a feeding frenzy on something she said. At the same time, the movie got trashed in the West for b
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
That's ironic, because China hates strong female role models or protagonists in movies due to an endemically sexist culture
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
These foreign cinemas have their own industries. Plus, Marvel as an entity has been around for years before they started making those crap movies. It's just hollywood kowtowing to other countries for more money.
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
Movies (non-documentary) can moot and champion whole ideologies, psychologies, and philosophies, for example Fight Club (nihilism), Logan's Run (progressivism, anti-establishmentism), Lost in Translation (existentialism, contemporary a
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
Juxtapose this with a movie like Lost in Translation, where as much of the progression comes from just observing characters and actions as comes from dialogue and interaction. That movie was a modern masterpiece and spits in the face of mos
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
We can blame a lot of the dumbing down on Hollywood's kowtowing to China
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
I smell a purge coming
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
I dunno, man. It's not a great analogy. You're assuming people have a near-infinite amount of time to learn outside of what they normally do. I'm not buying it.
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by "investment is IN ourselves" ...
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by Strawhorse 5y ago
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