Americans sell themselves as these rugged individuals who won’t be easily swayed but then turn out to be absolute pussies when it comes to jokes foreign to them.
What a bizarre take.
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Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Right, because this is only done to appease America, right? That’s why Hollywood doesn’t censor and change jokes/storylines to appease other countries like China, Saudi Arabia, etc when they have pro-LGBTQ+ messaging?
Here’s 11 examples, some I didn’t even know about.
Huh, A Streetcar Named Desire was altered for the Irish release to downplay/eliminate the themes of homosexuality, and the movie becomes unrecognizable as the main character visits her sister and just goes insane.
The Die Hard terrorists were changed from German extremists to former IRA members who became mercenaries. There was a special release of The Sound of Music for Germany that eliminates basically everything after the wedding and the majority of the Nazi subplot.
Disney also makes lots of changes to their movies, not even just to appease homophobic countries: they changed the animal anchors in Zootopia based on the release country, in Inside Out they changed the vegetables she eats based on the release country, etc.
So maybe Wallace and Gromit could have, idk, recorded slightly different audio for those scenes so that everyone could be appeased? Since apparently not being able to make a joke about a “bog chain” makes Americans the biggest pussies in the world?