2006-07-14 18:51:24 · 7 answers · asked by >(",)< 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
When you add up all of the movies - both studio and independent, big budget and low-budget student films, the result is a very good snapshot of what we value as a society.
The top Hollywood films alone do not accurately reflect our culture and society - for they are produced for an American and a global audience simultaneously. One of the reasons studio films these days are so simple and formulaic is that they are deliberately written for the US and Europe and Japan and China at the same time. Because of this, concepts must translate easliy. This is why we see a lot of action movies with simple dialogue - it is easily understood and translated.
But when you look at a cross-section of films in all genres from comedies to documentaries to action thrillers, and you look at what people spend their money on - and people value their money so if they part with it they must value that thing more - then I think you get a sense of who we are as a people... for better or worse.
Yes it is fundamentally a matter of personal taste and each of us may not like or agree or support certain films. Yet the fact that there are movies like Gigli (generally thought of as horrible) and movies like Crash (Best Picture in 2006) released within a year of each other tells you that there is a diversity of interest and ability to produce differing levels of quality at the same time. It is this diversity and the freedom to access that diversity that we value above the specific content of one film.
2006-07-14 19:18:34 · answer #1 · answered by Andy in the OC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on which movies you refer to. Most of the family movies do represent a fairly close representation but most are about as exact as bollywood or Hong Kong action movies are to Eastern culture and values. Heroes, villians and excitement drive american movies.
2006-07-15 02:03:58 · answer #2 · answered by sting_harkonnen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only Hollywoods values
2006-07-15 01:57:45 · answer #3 · answered by are u crazy?...cuz i am not! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL well.....
Frankly I'm embarrassed by American culture lately, and if anything what you see in the movies is an idealized version.
Oh now that's depressing :(
2006-07-15 01:56:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not even close.
2006-07-15 01:55:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely NOT!!!!!
2006-07-15 02:01:45 · answer #6 · answered by Artsy Lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-15 01:55:01 · answer #7 · answered by Pichi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋