I finally kind of get why it might be advantageous to make Hollywood remakes of foreign films or whatever, for a more valid reason than just cashing in on star value
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This summarizes why I hate so much of the whole remake trend, which pretty much hinges entirely on the "A MINDBENDINGLY DARK AND GRITTY REVISION OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC! NOT YOUR MOM'S RAGGEDY ANN!!!" marketing hook, with absolutely no advances in story since the original book/movie was released.
I mean, it was kind of novel with American McGee's Alice, but not it's become so woefully predictable I'm just begging on my knees for the trend to stop.
but man, I bet those book reviews would read differently if the author's last name had been Brown or Johnson or whatever.
They most certainly would. The reviewers would take it as a given the book portrayed some range of human experience, rather than being shocked, SHOCKED! that a book from the Land of [Simplistic, Narrow, and often Infantile Stereotype] portrayed a range of human experience outside of the stereotype.
It just iiirks me because some of this stuff is really insightful and has made me reexamine stuff like my relationships with people and life in general, and I think a wider audience could get something from it, too. But because it's got this big FOREIGN label on it that's all a lot of people are seeing. Like, "I hear they study pretty hard in Japan! This book has students in it! They are dysfunctional people! This must be meant as a critique of the Japanese education system!" When actually it's more of a character study and coming of age story with the education system just coloring things, or whatever. It just seems like such a waste :////// Book reviews about Japanese books always read more like Japanese Studies 101 than anything about the actual book itself.
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I mean, it was kind of novel with American McGee's Alice, but not it's become so woefully predictable I'm just begging on my knees for the trend to stop.
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They most certainly would. The reviewers would take it as a given the book portrayed some range of human experience, rather than being shocked, SHOCKED! that a book from the Land of [Simplistic, Narrow, and often Infantile Stereotype] portrayed a range of human experience outside of the stereotype.
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