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In Reply to: Re: Wait a sec . . . posted by Victor Khomenko on January 15, 2004 at 15:04:06:
Locals? Who are the locals? Locals to me? Here, in Delaware? In NYC (loved the one last night)? In Paris (loved one a few days back)?The locals in the location the film takes place. Mongolian films are invariably about Mongols doing Mongolian things.
***America is the great melting pot. Every culture bubbles into the stew, flavoring it. We don't care about other cultures as much the rest of the world does because we already have them living with us on the same block.
I don't think this as as true as you are describing. Many Americans are completely oblivious of the world outside their home town - the isolationism is in American veins.
Nonsense. Within 5 houses of my own suburban California home I have black, white and asian neighbors. I have 1st generation German, Brits and Chinese immigrants. How many Icelanders, Japanese or Russians or Mongols can say this? Its' right under our noses every single day, so obvious, no one seems to notice . . . outside the USA.
Regardless, just as many Euros and Asians are ALSO blind and oblivious to the world outside their home town.
Like every other country on Earth it (America) also has weak spots. High culture is most definitely one of them.
Because art is business driven in the US. In Europe's golden age, all the money was controlled by the church. The church sponsored all art. That's why the Louvre walls are covered with Bible scenes. Today, business controls the money. The US is the strongest business economy in the world, therefore, we have the largest sponsorship of the arts. No, not the government (we are disgustingly behind on that), but business.
Now, note I didn't say "High Culture". High Culture (opera, classical music, poetry) is dead, run down by the onrushing express train of the machine age. The art of the 20th century that will be remembered 500 years from now are disciplines like industrial design, advertising, architecture, movies etc. Places where the US excelled over all other countries.
***The freedom to kick ass. This dynamic allows for a film industry like ours to flourish unlike in any other country.
Well, unfortunately most of it is like fast food industry. Unfortunately we, the Americans, let our formerly advanced movie culture decay in favor of schlock one... I feel very strongly that way.
Yes, but because it's so strong, producing hundreds of movies a year, there is also room for a lot more good small films to leak through than in a place that produces 3 films total per year.
***Without the American business to emulate, the rest of the world's movie industries would be at a loss for how to make movies.
Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that. Perhaps you should review the things done in Europe before that.
Before that? Before movies?
Or do you mean stuff like German Expressionism which was really simply a style of art direction? The French New Wave films about nothing? Please elaborate what I'm missing.
Today more and more films in more and more countries immitate the American money-producing trash. You can see it all over the globe. And this is not something to be mightily proud of.
You see the glass half-empty, I see it half-full. You can fight the world if you want, but the world doesn't care. It will just mow your ass down mericilessly if you let it. Better to keep you head above the wave and see the good when it comes.
Anyway, big subject and good foundation of endless discussions.
Boy howdy!
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Follow Ups
- A bit of clarification and more aggitated gesticualtion - Troy 16:32:42 01/15/04 (1)
- I shall leave this final word to you. (nt) - Victor Khomenko 09:09:35 01/16/04 (0)
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