Do you live in new York or LA? If not you know how it feels.
How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes?
Submitted 1 day ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Aeao@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
vegafjord@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Superheroes are cops with superpowers.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The same way I view the location of most anime being in Japan. It’s just typical of the genre.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 day ago
Honestly, it helps with the suspension of disbelief. Some local author tried to tell urban fantasy stories in my home town… Its just too silly for me to read about a werewolf/vampire/alien fighting on the street I cross to get to the supermarket.
And of course it is absolutely masturbatoric, same as Japan and aliens invading Tokyo.
ericwdhs@discuss.online 1 day ago
Funnily enough, I find NYC and Tokyo to be the least masturbatory targets for off-world interest.
NYC makes sense as a combined seat of international politics (see the UN building), economic power (largest GDP by city and Wall Street seeing 2/3rds of all public trade), and genetic representation for humanity (Queens being the most ethnically and linguistically diverse urban area on the planet).
Tokyo makes sense as the world’s most populous metropolitan area and highest GDP by metropolitan area.
So, aliens scanning the planet or the Internet or whatever and thinking “we need to go here first” for either location is believable to me in an objective sense.
It also helps that there is often some background lore adding to why a particular location is important, which also includes explanations for Earth itself being important on a cosmic scale.
Griffus@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
I know!! It’s like when Thor repeatedly put the story in Norway’s oldest town, the one I grew up in, and put it in a valley. The one very notable thing about the town is that it is on the opposite side of the country from the fjords and big valleys, and surrounds the castle on top of the mountain facing the sea.
dragontology@retrofed.com 17 hours ago
Reminds me of Doctor Who and how this awesome time-traveling, space-hopping demigod mostly only cares about this one random island (Great Britain).
The Doctor did come to America for a season (with the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith) and America has been mentioned a couple times (e.g. “New New York”, though that was an alien city) but for the most part, the series is UK-centric because it’s made in the UK.
*Most* anime takes place in Japan, if it’s from Japan. *The Apothecary Diaries* is a recent one that takes place in China. That’s weird. When anime is set in the west — for example, *Fullmetal Alchemist* and its sequel, *Attack on Titan*, Saga of Tanya the Evil, and SPYxFAMILY all being set in Germany, and The Promised Neverland taking place in the US (minor spoiler, some of these don’t actually take place there, but you’re led to believe they do) — Japan likes to make a live-action version that IS set in Japan, however ridiculous that ends up being. I guess they’re a bit xenophobic, but so are we, so… not gonna hold it against ‘em, but rather, just be thankful for more entertainment options.
So, it happens. Placing the action in another country. It’s not normal, though.
_NetNomad@fedia.io 16 hours ago
Doctor Who always ending up in London destroyed my self of disbelief almost every time after the first few, until it hit me like a brick how wildly hypocritical I was being as someone who grew up close to NYC
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
I don’t know why I’d expect a US production to be set in Germany and be about, uh, local superheroes (?). (In fact, thinking about it, I’d dread any such production unless the majority of the people involved are in fact German and know the country.)
Spider-Man doesn’t work in our cities anymore than he works in a small US town.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 hours ago
It’s all fantasy and entertainment. We know that superheroes are not real and we don’t care where they fight their enemies. It all could just as well be happening in made up lands like Middle-earth, Gotham City or Boston.
Zykino@programming.dev 18 hours ago
Its funny. “Oh the earth is about to explode? Only show it crack in the USA”. Makes me feel safe knowing how much it is fictionnal and in no way relatied to me.
biofaust@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As a form of masturbation.
mlg@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s pretty indifferent because Hollywood has an excellent track record of screwing up literally every aspect of a foreign country, even with next door Canada and Mexico, so people would rather just see a good movie than a bad depiction.
As for superheroes, I’ve always made the argument that most people actually don’t care all that much about the current genre outside of fictional entertainment because to them it’s purely fictional entertainment. Especially for 3rd world countries, they would find it dumb for some superhero to battle a supervillain in their hometown when there’s a shitty government/military/cartel/mob right down the street that’s done 999999x worse than whatever a fictional villain can threaten to do.
One of the reasons the Batman trilogy was so well received internationally is because unlike the rest of the superhero genre, it revolved around Gotham’s decrepit justice system being reignited and actually leading to a systemic improvement in society, which is everyone’s pipe dream.
Griffus@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
I’m more annoyed that US movies puts places on earth in other places. Like Mission Impossible put a Norwegian mountain in Cambodia, Superman put Norwegian snowy mountains on the north pole and Star Wars took the exact same mountains and put them in a totally different galaxy, smh.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
This is Sekovia erasure! Again!
reader@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Captain France always Fights for France, in France.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
They love them. Supercape shit is wildly popular the world over.
enphurgen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wolverine is Canadian so I dont really care
dihutenosa@piefed.social 1 day ago
Easy! We don’t view, or watch, American superhero movies. Never saw them or their appeal.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That is bullshit.
- The Dark Knight made 500 million in the US market and 400 million in the international market.
- Batman V Superman the Dawn of Justice made 300 million in the US Market and 500 million in the International market.
- The Avengers made 600 million in the US market and 900 million internationally.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Ok, but have you considered the fact that those numbers are actually pretty small for the international market considering that the US represents only about 4% of the global population? Even if you limit it to the English speaking world it’s only about a 5th of the global population, and of the movies mentioned only Avengers even came close to having the kind of market penetration it did in the US (discounting how much of that international market number is made up of non-English dubs and subs).
Suggesting no one watches them is a bit of a stretch, but there are certainly a lot of people outside the US who just don’t.
dihutenosa@piefed.social 1 day ago
Thou confusest my personal perspective with bovine excretions. I’ve heard the name “Batman”, none of the rest rings any bells. I am hereby offering an utterly personal perspective on Ameirican pop culture - we have no contact.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
Not every non-USian is as advanced mentally as you, please be patient with us.
king_comrade@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
Most of Hollywood is yank wank, you kinda get used to it. Tbh Hollywood is way too ignorant to portray anything outside the states accurately.