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.
You make a good argument that Hollywood looks after its own and is quite parochial about what flavour of diversity it wishes to highlight on any particular year.
I suppose the next step into looking into this 'Art' is how it is altered to suit markets such as the Middle East or China rather than retain its original form regardless.
If, for example, in the recent Star Wars trilogy the character of Finn was minimised in Chinese advertising then how artistic is it to have him more central in Western advertising and if the women kissing in the background after a big battle was removed from the Middle East versions then why does the West have to see something which might not gel with their religious outlooks?
I certainly don't have the answers but it does drive home that art/product question and how those producing it are colonialist in the areas where they wish to spread particular messages but restrict others. Does Hollywood consider itself too grand to force the concept of homosexuality into areas where that can have someone killed but belittle heterosexuals for not watching it in areas where they won't be killed?
I said Hollywood was parochial earlier because culture, and its advancement across the world, is a form of church (With all the trimmings of illicit sexual behaviours, drugs and rock'n'roll).