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What big tropes are found in the movies of some cultures but pretty much absent in others? (leminal.space)

submitted 2 days ago by big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example : Megadeaths happen with nary an eye batted in Japanese movies, but you rarely see that kind of thing in the American. And the total dominance of the aristocracy over the underclasses is as assumed and invisible as gravity in French movies, but it seems to be taboo elsewhere.

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[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

We don’t do that in USA

Don't you? GI Joe Retaliation: London gets shelled from orbit and apparently destroyed - barely acknowledged afterwards. GI Joe Resolute: Moscow gets obliterated by a space laser or whatever as a show of force, and it barely matters afterwards. And don't get me started on the action movies where hundreds of people are snuffed out on the regular with perhaps just a quip to notice it. It's only "reflected on" if it's the "correct" kind of people