International is everywhere outside the U.S. from your point of view isn't it?
You must be acting intentionally obtuse. Let's review the responses to my initial comment:
I really don't think that the creators of Jersey Shore said 'We'll kill in the European markets with this!'. The masses who make shows like that popular are the reason that movies have been dumbed down. Not Europe. :rolleyes
i think some people here should rethink their oppinions. dumbing down movies for europe is just plain offensive. also, i dont see why this is a problem, as its usually the other way around with releases, see my previous comment.
Now, where in the OP did it specify Europe? Where in my post did I specify Europe?
Neither the OP, nor my initial response singled out Europe. Therefore the two responses which talk about Europe are either red herrings, or straw man fallacies.
Hence my response "who said anything about Europe?" As my second post made clear, it's actually not about Europe and really more about Asia than anything else.
If anything, European films are being dumbed down for American audiences. See, for example, Luc Besson's Taxi series in France, and the American reboot with Jimmy Fallon and Queen Latifah.
Different word, same implication. Sounds as if you implying that the rest of the world wouldn't understand the plot if the film was made with an all American audience in mind, so the plot is simplified therefor diminishing quality in order to generate more profit.
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No, I am implying exactly what I said in my second post.
Films now routinely gross more outside the US than they do inside the US. Look at this from a strictly economic point of view. If you're marketing a product to one country, you have to find a profitable demographic in that country. But if you're marketing a product globally, you have to find a profitable demographic in many countries, with different cultural sensitivities, different cultural understandings, and different meanings.
Look, it's easy for you to cut out the first sentence of my explanation and put in a some counter argument, but you're not actually dealing with what my argument is. And the argument I'm making is not really all that controversial, and intuitive in terms of economics.
If the largest segment of movie goers in Japan are middle aged women, and the largest segment of movie goers in the US are young adults 18-34, if you're making a big budget Hollywood film, you're really going to sit there and say that you're not going to find a common denominator between those two groups?
Now extrapolate that to every other country that the film is going to be seen in.
And look at the movies that are grossing huge overseas. It's the big budget blockbuster films. Avengers, Avatar, Harry Potter, etc, etc, etc. It's not The Tree of Life (voted best film by Sight & Sound for 2011). Heck, it's not even The Artist. Now look, I like explosions and fun films as much as the next guy, but I'm also not going to say that they are qualitatively equivalent to the artistic value found in any number of films that don't gross a bazillion dollars.
