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However, people are also allowed to be frustrated if a movie franchise or something they were looking forward to was made with a different cultural appeal in mind, and therefor isn't as enjoyable to them. In the US people were frustrated by this because the movie was white washed by this decision, but it was made anyways to include the Chinese market.Īnyone is allowed to make movies for any market. For example, Tilda Swinton was chosen to play a character that in the comics is from Tibet, because China wouldn't show the movie if a major character was Tibetan. On top of that, if you want to show a movie in China, you need to exclude certain ideas and content, because China cares a lot about stuff that we don't. It's fairly easy, however, to make a really simple dumb movie that appeals to a foreign market and translates well. The issue isn't that Chinese tastes aren't as sophisticated, the problem is that it's hard to make a smart movie that translates well into other cultures. Was it a better/funnier/funner film than it would have been otherwise? I'm going with No. Did it make more money than it would have otherwise? I'd bet so. My friends and I laughed at some parts that didn't seem to work for the local audience, while they laughed at some jokes which were clearly intended for them but mostly made us cringe or say 'huh?'. I'm reminded of my experience seeing Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at a cinema in Shanghai. Where I said American, you can substitute Chinese or German or French or whatever. reflecting American values/interests/culture) are generally just better than the transnational films (with shoehorned in plot elements, a hodgepodge of joke styles, and all the other trapping of engineered mass global appeal) that major studios are betting on these days. Another comment interpreted your response as meaning that only Americans can appreciate good film, but I think the truth is that American films made for American audiences (i.e. I actually agree with you, generally speaking. You went at this as though with a hammer when you might have benefited from a bit more nuance.
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