Comment on Beijing and Hollywood are decoupling as Chinese audiences favor domestic productions
maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Relatedly, something I know has been telling me that we are right now in a rather dramatic shift away from western cultural dominance and that most westerners aren’t even aware of it at all. Obviously it’s been building for a while, but they tell me they’re repeatedly seeing signs of it all about the place. This seems to be part of that picture.
Chuymatt@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Not sad, honestly, especially with movies. Maybe the drive for the Chinese market will calm and better films will come out of it. But, that’ll require the bubble to bust.
maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Oh yea, I wasn’t trying to present it in a negative light at all. The only possible negative is that parts of mainstream western culture could be both unaware and uncomfortable with the development. For people seriously into the “art” and happy to go “crate digging” etc, it should really open up new things, and as others have said, allow Hollywood to re-calibrate.
Just the other day a friend asked me if I’d like to see RRR (indian/bollywood film) with them … though it’s fairly popular and broke into the west, I don’t think that would have happened to me 5-10 years ago (where neither of us Bollywood fans or anything).