featofstrength said:Here's a review of Cap that highlights it's overall lack and ridicule of patriotism: http://www.popgunchaos.com/2011/07/25/captain-america-movie-review/#more-2315
I hear ya. (Assuming the article is right. It seems like there's room for there to be patriotism isn't the film that isn't just dependent on flag-waving, literal or figurative.) I suppose that's the fact of an international market as much as it is patriotism being out of fashion, to whatever extent that's accurate to say. And it's a shame. Because where film is the medium most capable of reaching a broad audience, and thereby manage to actually say something to a people as a broader entity, the fact that big movies like this are made for a global audience makes that sort of thing difficult. This is odd, in some ways - the French, for example, loved John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Jerry Lewis, who are surely examples of people doing art and entertainment at the same time. Ford in particular is about as American a filmmaker as there is. And yet he translated, and remained fashionable abroad even once he wasn't any longer in the States.
Of course, the difference there is that the American trappings of something like a John Ford movie are different than the Star-Spangled Banners - musical or physical - that something like Captain America requires.
Come to think of it, the global audience bit probably has something to do with the overall lack of swastikas as well. The German market is huge, and you can only do so much of that there, legally. But then, to have dozens of swastikas without any American flags would be the more absurd option. Care to get upset about that, Nurhachi?
Still, I look forward to seeing it, whether I do so this summer or wait for home video. I hear the World's Fair stuff is great.
featofstrength said:...oh, and I dislike ScarJo...
Now, that's hard to defend.
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