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Mnementh said:
Let's look at it from the other side. Did you realize that no Hollywood film has ugly actresses. They just don't cast them. Even if the movie is about an ugly, all they do is plant glasses in her face. Most Hollywood-movies sport heroes aged in their twenties or thirties (equivalent to your high-school-aged animes). Hollywood movies shows action but seldom consequences. If the hero beats up a thug, we don't follow the thug in the hospital where his family comes and is sad. Most women are depicted in one of multiple categories: damsel in distress (still), romantic interest for the hero, overly shallow, as a protagonist often an overly romatic and at the same time clumsy one, or a unrealistic supernatural heroine. Most Hollywood movie have a clear distinction between good and bad people. Bad people drive german cars. You have always something happening. Really. Never once we see the uneventful life of Joe Everyone. And so on. Would it be fair if I lump all Hollywood together? Every entertainment product has tropes. That is natural, we live all in a cultural bubble. But we don't see it for our own bubble. We concentrate on the differences. We never say: how should I distinct Jim and Chloe, they both have a head, a body, two arms and two legs. We concentrate on the facial features and can distinct them. If you lump all Anime together you say: they all have a head, a body, two legs and two arms, so they're all the same. |
I wouldn't have any problem if you told me you generally dislike Hollywood.
But I feel we've drifted quite a bit from the actual topic, Xenoblade 2. Now, we've talked the characters to death, but the other thing for me is that the worlds didn't wow me like they did in the first two games. Hopefully they are some epic landscapes we haven't seen yet.
