Hollywood's big summer movies were all filmed elsewhere

#1

This summer’s biggest-budget films have everything moviegoers have come to expect from Hollywood blockbusters: superheroes, pirates, space aliens. But in the truest sense of the term, none of them is a Hollywood movie.
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#2

Globalism in action.

But as a Classical Archaeology graduate student from Wisconsin told me decades ago when I said her country’s movies were better than mine (Canada’s), without any sense she was flattered: “but Hollywood doesn’t represent US culture.”

I thought about it since then–Walt Disney’s movies represented the heritage of the country, and I think RKO did as well, especially Merian C Cooper’s films (The Most Dangerous Game, King Kong, Son of Kong) but the other studios were Eastern European and reflected their heritage in story and actor choices.

Can a truly traditional US (or English if speaking about the UK) film industry start up again?
I suspect there is a domestic audience for it, the challenge is getting around the corporate monopolies.

#3

Well although Hollywood is in north America.
The North american audience is no longer the target
of hollywood movies.
why are there so many dumbed down sequels and reboots??
because intelligent plots with nuanced American cultural references
will not sell well in China where big budget flops like
“Warcraft” actually make their money back.

Youthful, increasingly affluent movie audiences in places like China or Iran, are not sophisticated enough to recognize a poorly executed
TVshow to big screen debacles like “power rangers” or “Max steel”
because their closed societies have no knowledge of the source material good or bad.

Netflix,torrents and other technologies have long made Hollywood’s
north american Distribution model economically obsolete
they sooner they admit it the better.

#4

Breaking up the media monopolies is essential–for the public good, but they will resist it to the bitter end.
The public is already abandoning their news media, but for movies and tv it is harder since good programming requires funding and distribution, and I do not think Netflix is an honorable alternative. It has been criticized for harming the low budget horror film market for one thing, and their recent Cannes festival products listed films by South Korean, Japanese, Spanish, no films mentioned were from Western Europeans.
THIS is the problem.
If I watch a Mexican film, I expect to see Mexicans. If I watch a Japanese film, ditto. But it seems if I watch a film set in England, even if its 800 AD, or a film that is supposed to be about Norse mythology, it must have a multicultural spirit.
This isn’t a problem if there is an alternative that is more natural and common sensical, but there is not.

Thus one has to go back to 1960s European film, or an occasional later oddity like Krull to find this traditional storytelling approach.