If you look at movies coming out in the near future and recent past:
-superman cannot stand for "Truth, Justice and the American way," Only "Truth and Justice and the rest of that stuff.
-Captain America has to be called not Captain America but only the First Avenger overseas because of foriegn sensibilties
-Red Dawn must digitally remove all traces of china because the studio doesn't want to offend the huge audience pool. Instead they make the bad guys North Koreans because they are too busy being killed by their government to watch movies.
And then we have the movie Hannah. The plot is a girl is raised to be a killer by her father. The girl was part of an experimental program which the creator is now trying to make disapear. The problem for me is that the entire movie is set in Morroco and Europe, specifically Germany. Eric Bana is an east german spy, recruited by the C.I.A. to get women to give over their babies to the program. Who is the villain...of course, the C.I.A.
Every character in the movie is German, British/australian and the bad guys aren't east german or russian but americans.
Don't get me wrong, there is every right to make this movie like this. My query is, if America has to step so lightly around the world with our movies so we don't offend the delicate sensibilities of everyone else, why are they so comfortable offending our sensibilities? We also have a large audience base who may pay to see a movie. Are we just tougher than the rest of the world, that we can be shown as the bad guys and not need to be digitally sanitized out of the film? The movie itself was more worth a dvd rental but that is one view of the movie situation.
-superman cannot stand for "Truth, Justice and the American way," Only "Truth and Justice and the rest of that stuff.
-Captain America has to be called not Captain America but only the First Avenger overseas because of foriegn sensibilties
-Red Dawn must digitally remove all traces of china because the studio doesn't want to offend the huge audience pool. Instead they make the bad guys North Koreans because they are too busy being killed by their government to watch movies.
And then we have the movie Hannah. The plot is a girl is raised to be a killer by her father. The girl was part of an experimental program which the creator is now trying to make disapear. The problem for me is that the entire movie is set in Morroco and Europe, specifically Germany. Eric Bana is an east german spy, recruited by the C.I.A. to get women to give over their babies to the program. Who is the villain...of course, the C.I.A.
Every character in the movie is German, British/australian and the bad guys aren't east german or russian but americans.
Don't get me wrong, there is every right to make this movie like this. My query is, if America has to step so lightly around the world with our movies so we don't offend the delicate sensibilities of everyone else, why are they so comfortable offending our sensibilities? We also have a large audience base who may pay to see a movie. Are we just tougher than the rest of the world, that we can be shown as the bad guys and not need to be digitally sanitized out of the film? The movie itself was more worth a dvd rental but that is one view of the movie situation.