Oh Lord Capcom accused of Racism for RE5

[foont]

Slimebeast said:

foont said:

Why they chose that setting? Because it's exciting with the most mystical and primitive setting you can think of - as exotic and opposite as possible from the safe, familiar and predictable Western world.

It's not a coincidence that there are a few Zombie-like movies made in the same setting - like a couple of these Satanic zombie-movies like the prequel to The Exorcist and another movie set in Africa had this Pazuzu demon (name of movie escaped me) and many other scary movies set in the similar Voodoo/Creol setting.

Capcom's "the origin of humanity" argument is bullshit - it's just something they're saying to please the politically correct mafia.

I'm sure you agree with me.

 

 

 

I absolutely agree. I was skeptical of Capcom's explanation from the start. And you're right, I think they did choose the location because it's exotic.

And for some reason, something about that bugs me, though I can't quite put my finger on it. I haven't seen the movies you mentioned -- so maybe I'd feel differently if I saw them?

 

This whole thing kind of reminds me of Palestinian-American, Edward Said (pronounced 'Saiyeed', I think?), a writer and cultural critic. He wrote a controversial book called "Orientalism" in 1978. It's about the way the post-colonial world outside of the middle east depicts and (mis)interprets the middle east in derisive/prejudice ways. (It's more complicated than that, of course).

Anyway, there's some truth to his writing, and I think some of it applies to the RE5 example.