First of all, who gives two shits about Forbes idea of what a tastemaker is. Anyone reading Forbes to make their tastes is a moron. That quote about “the collapse of the old notion of a ‘foreign film.’ ” Sounds like that Rumsfeld quote about Old Europe. It's kind of the same thing too. When all the foreign directors come to America to make crappy US movies in English, I guess you could say that's a new notion of "foreign film."
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posted by @ 3/15/2007 8:49 PM
I don't think that very many people (if any) read Forbes in order to 'make their taste', it's rather that Forbes monitors trends and thus can gauge which people are the most written about and/or successful, and thus
'tastemakers'.
As I implied, I disagree with the idea that the 'old notion' of a foreign film has 'collapsed', it's more that Hollywood has assimilated 'foreign movies' into its output.
The USA, a country founded by 'foreigners', has always sought to improve its national filmmaking by welcoming 'foreigners' to make films with its money, and this has been happening since the 1920s. However historically, as you say, foreign directors have made Hollywood films in English, which resulted in many great directors (Fritz Lang, Jean Renoir, etc.) failing to make films nearly as good as the ones the made in their own languages.
Recently, the Hollywood remake has continued this trend, with directors of successful foreign language films being invited to 'do that film again, but in English', a formula which has always produced markedly inferior results to the original.
What's interesting about the current trend, however, is that Hollywood is no longer insisting that a director's good ideas have to expressed in English. And whether that is a good or a bad thing remains to be seen.
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