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Ah yes, because he singularly represents a foreign nation as all good Americans know, and doesn't possess any individual thought.
True, but I'm not sure what that has to do with Hayao Miyazaki the outspoken antiwar environmentalist.
He is not Japan's sole representative and is not responsible for everything they do or should do.
Trying to think of some, you must be thinking of some indie films or documentaries cause nothing comes to mind in the mainstream.
I assume this is a purposefully generalised statement to compare it with this thread's title? Because I read the article and didn't really see anything about hating American movies as a whole. So it would be an odd comparison to make. Did I miss something?
Who cares? Really? Stubborn, close minded guy doesn't like things. Does it really matter that he is really famous and influential?
Why not, Unchartedand Tomb Raider sell pretty well and aren't those promises similar and both starring white people?
That's funny, I don't recall the last American movie that has seriously looked at the implications of the atomic bombs or the native Americans or prisoners of war or their operations in Cuba or the Middle East.
Okay? You were still holding him responsible for all of Japan.
They get their fair share of criticism about that element, too. Perhaps not as much as the whole mass murderer protagonist thing, but they do get their knocks.
Video game journalism is ill equipped to offer cultural criticism from this angle anyway, people get outraged if their game is an 89 on Metacritic instead of a 90. There's no audience for "The Colonial-Imperialist tradition of narratives like Uncharted".
C'mon. Are you really going to pretend that the majority of American(Hollywood) Fantasy/Action films don't have a lot of racist/imperialist messages ingrained in them? Its a systemic problem in society so of course its going to seep into our media. These films aren't the sole representation of American movies but they're held up as some of the greats so of course they'll receive criticism.
Yeah we get Green Books all the time.
Oh, don't get me wrong, it's rare that we get anything written at length about games and their themes that aren't some kind of surface evaluation of a game's themes, but it's not completely ignored at least. Maybe in 20 years!
We have a bunch of Vietnam movies about how the inhumanity of war makes our own soldiers feel bad.
I don't recall movies about the Trail of Tears or a movie about how the U.S tried to use the Open Door policy to have a turn at exploiting China.
Does it matter if they're Chinese or Japanese? Since you're being pedantic, the Japanese are descendants from the Yayoi people who lived in modern China and Korea.
They aren't providing counterarguments at all. They're merely responding with anti-intellectual, reactionary posts. And purposefully so, because they are wholly incapable rationalising their objections. So drive by it is.
It doesn't matter, because Miyazaki's overall point was that Indiana was killing people foreign to himself, not specifically Japanese.
Huh!
