I noticed that in America, we seem to not do national releases of very many foreign movies from overseas in theaters. When was the last time we had a foreign movie that spoke entirely in a foreign language? Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger? That other movie with a dude on a boat with a tiger? Talking about the last 20-30 years up until streaming services.
I think the American entertainment industry is trying to keep americans isolated. So they can't see movies from other countries where they can compare it to American made movies. So we can't see how bad american made movies are. To keep us from seeing other cultures and to see their perspective.. to see that they don't use ugly goblinas or trannies or POC. If you watch a chinese, korean or japanese movie.. most of the cast are handsome or pretty/cute and are like 99.9% asian lol. Maybe our country will be less woke when we actually see what other cultures around the world is doing.
Even with streaming services (which i dont use since they are all woke as hell), last big name was Squid Games? After that not much foreign things that took off. Maybe that Shogun show, but its niche.
I also notice.. movies aren't butchered as badly with translations and localization when compared to video games. But that is for a different day hehe.
Not a thing in Aus, interestingly…
I would say more than half of the movie trailers I see are foreign-language, probably solidly a third of the total shown on linear TV are subtitled, and they’re one of the few things I still go to the cinema to see (but I love European and Latin cinema, which, I suppose, makes me the target demographic).
One of the local multiplexes (in the most “multicultural” area) even shows regular Bollywood films, meaning there’s obviously demand for that. So… That’s definitely not the case here.
Sweden, as far as I could tell, was fairly similar. Though I focussed on film festivals and premieres, while there, so I’m not 100% sure what it’s like during “normal” times.
They seemed to like their arthouse stuff just as much as Aussies do, though. So I guess this more of an American thing…