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I've never heard this theory before, but it makes sense. Can someone corroberate or expand on this point please?

If it's true, the implications for art are pretty worrisome in a globalized marketplace.

As I understand it , China is a bigger market for Hollywood than the US at this point. A lot of Blockblusters are written around what will fly in China and what wont cause CCP censors to object.

That said, I dont have a ready source for this but I definitely have read it before somewhere.

You might have read about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483777

> As I understand it , China is a bigger market for Hollywood than the US at this point.

Definitely not at this point. There was a point it looked likely five years ago, but US box office is holding up better than expected, and the Chinese government increasingly block release of the vast majority of US films.

More generally, compare worldwide box with domestic. There are films that gross 10x oversees selling "American blockbusters" that all but flop in the US. It's why so many film franchises have felt so puzzling, disconnected, and out of place over the past twenty years.

Hollywood doesn't make film for Americans any more than the baubles at tourist traps give insight into local life.

One metric you could use is lines of dialogue. Here's a Reddit thread which gets into this with Mad Max Fury Road.

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/gbjt9t/mad_max_in_f...

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