“Why, before you know it, Americans might discover that other countries, languages, and - worst of all - cultures exist. That might make them question the rightful order, and then where will we be? They’ll start asking questions like ‘wait, paid vacation is a thing?’ or ‘what’s a union?’, and we can’t have that. No, sir.”
They might see that other countries also have beautiful landscapes. They might get exposed to people with foreign accents and learn that those people are just people as well! The foreign-made films will be less subject to pressure from the US government. They might be exposed to other cultures, other religions, people of different skin tones , and accept them as actual people. All of these things are ‘bad, very bad’, from a christonationalist fascist viewpoint.
So the wall to the south was never about keeping Mexicans out but to keep Americans in? Sounds familiar.
It’s ok, you can totally just censor all the queer stuff, union references, beautiful mountains, environmental ideology etc. China is already doing that sort of “quality control” for all imported entertainment.
In some cases, you may meed to resort to some creative editing, since the solar panels and wind turbines will get in the way. Maybe replace them with coal plants and black smoke?
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It reeks of information control. They can control the American narrative using films etc. as propaganda but if people have access to foreign media that will pollute the messaging.
It’s the same tactics that North Korea employs.
Sweden does the opposite.
The reason why there’s always a Swedish actor in Nordic films is that the Swedish Film Institute gives funding to movies with Swedish actors.
It’s such a silly trope by now, but at least it’s the sane and successful way of doing it.
Adding a “tariff” will only result in more CGI slob. What if someone makes a movie with a story happening in Italy entirely by CGI? Would it be tariffed, and if so, what if the Italy location is actually in a galaxy far far away?
As a Dane in Sweden mostly watching European productions this is always so hilarious to me. It’s pretty cool though, we should be exposed to each other more!
Nordisk Film does the same so there’ll be a token Danish actor in Swedish productions too, like in Helikopterrånet.
You know. Like how the Nazis made sure that theirs was the only propaganda that was shown to the people. Nothing is ever new. All of this has happened before. We can break the cycle any time we like, we only just never do because we all have a different understanding of when we have the pressure and the power to overthrow our tyrannical dictators. We all have different perspectives on where the groundswell is. The only way to remedy that is to go outside and talk to the groundswell in person. The revolution will not be televised.
The Cheeto fuckwad is still bitter that Parasite won best picture.
What a childish cunt.
Bollywood will invest in producing their awesome movies in US, right.
I imagine this will only have a large impact on the Anglosphere. Indian movies industries, including Bollywood, rarely make movies in English.
This is actually an example of how a tariff can backfire immensely. The world consumes more US content than the US consumers do global content. Retaliatory tariffs from other countries could significantly diminish Hollywood’s global reach.
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Bruh I’m gonna 100% torrent anything I want to watch no matter where it’s produced, have fun I guess.
That’s bad for the film industry! I have a friend working on film industry here in Canada, and productions are dead, not much left since trade war started!
RIP Netflix
This is goint to be interesting!
Not content with just trying to decimate the sciences, Trump can go after the arts next.
Man, I have such mixed feelings on this.
On one hand, it would mean that Netflix would stop trying to push shitty Bollywood films on me (seriously, if I could prevent all Hindi films from showing up on my Netflix forever, I would absolutely do that). On the other hand it would mean that the really darkly melancholic Euro films would also be off the menu.
A lot of the good South Asian content is in the form of TV shows now. Movies (especially North Indian / Hindi) have been on the downslide for the past 10 years… I feel like shows are generally doing better than movies globally. It’s really hard to explore a topic well in ~2 hours.
Generally if you stop watching movies from a region it will stop suggesting them to you. I watched an Italian movie once and it recommended movies from there for a week or so and then stopped.
I have NEVER watched a Hindi movie. The closest I got was the most recent Zatoichi film, which had a weird-ass song-and-dance number at the end that was totally unrelated to the entire film. But scrolling through Netflix, it still keeps suggesting Hindi films for me, “because you liked…!”
I do watch some K-horror (Train to Busan, The Wailing, Thirst, etc.), Japanese chambara (the above mentioned Zatoichi, Lone Wolf and Cub, Hanzo the Razor–which is solidly pinku-eiga–and others), and sometimes Chinese historical pieces. I’ve watched a few Malay and Indonesian horror films as well. Some of the Asian television series are pretty great; I was really enjoying Gyeongseong Creature and Kingdom. I’ve tried watching Japanese TV, and the stuff I’ve seen has just been bad. I don’t think I’ve come across any Chinese TV shows that have interested me.
Yeah with South Asian movies you have to be pretty selective. A ton of movies are produced there and they generally are not directed at a global audience (which is perfectly fine in my opinion).
I’m not sure what this Zatoichi film is. Generally song and dance numbers are in commercialized mass market trash these days but had their charm (to south asian audiences at least) in the 90s and early 2000s. Those mass market movies are usually the ones that end up on Netflix.
There are some excellent hindi movies out there but more recently I’d say south Indian movies have been better overall.
It was the 2003 version with Takeshi Takano rather than Katsu Shintaro playing the lead role. Without the weird song and dance number it would have been a very solid entry (despite the digital blood).
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From the article:
Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers.
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