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While some remarkable indie stuff comes from Hollywood, most its production is *very* homogeneous at a given time in terms of aesthetics, story structures, people making it. I want more diverse aesthetics, cultural background and people!

Some cultural tropes from the USA are almost inevitable, got ingrained in my mind: Most movies contain at least one gun shot. Some contain hundreds, if not thousands, and explosions. Gun saves. "Good guy with a gun" wins. Heroes and cars...

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From Japan's Kurosawa's classics, to Italian Giallo; from Hong-Kong Shaw Bros to Soviet neo-realism; From Truffaut to Mocky to Melville; from Pasolini to Pietrangeli to Fellini; from Argentina to Poland, etc. The list is endless!

The more I learn, the more I realize I know *nothing* about Cinema! So much has been produced everywhere, by people of such different backgrounds, animated by such similar passion of sharing stories with the World!

(dont get me started on soundtracks!)

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My current conclusions:

Cinema, like all things is political;

Like all works of the mind, it influences people;

Like all cultural works it requires *active* participation/navigation/learning, otherwise one ends up being manipulated;

#bittorrent rocks;

"war on #piracy" is a brutal form of imperialism serving US interests;

I dislike guns/glorification of violence;

huge special effects are rarely nice, most of the time overwhelming and boring, filling some void;

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stories where "good" triumphs over "evil" are often boring (a tiny fraction of ways to tell stories);

like always: diversity is beautiful and inspiring;

Sharing is caring. <3

I love all Cinema!

More on these topics :

https://annas-archive.org/md5/6452b48d7b4387bf401ef2acfa94b577

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unofficial-propaganda-arm-of-the-u-s-military-1.5560575

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/03/holl-m14.html
https://www.levernews.com/inside-the-military-entertainment-complex/

https://annas-archive.org/md5/f8cda463eedcc7c47ab71482f642b419 "Operation Hollywood : how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies" (PDF)

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