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Which will result in retaliation against US movies, thus further undermining the US’s unparalleled soft power.
This man is doing literally everything Putin could ever want.
And probably demanded
Yup. The US has exerted far more power via blue jeans and culture (movies, music) than it has with bombs.
Movies and TV shows are the US’s cultural export. It helps keep us front of mind. They are essentially asking for retaliation where the US is erased from all foreign screens.
As a non American, that kind of sounds like a good thing tbh. US cultural exportation is why the MAGA right is popping up all over the west
I mean, I would think it’s the billionaire financiers that are directly funding the right, but the movies probably don’t help.
The movies normalized The American Way™ as the default way of doing things. The billionaires then financed the people pitching The American Way™. Without the first, the second wouldn’t work.
It might be a “good” thing, but it is an incredibly stupid thing for a US president to cause, that is unless they’re trying to undermine the power of the US.
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Uh, ok, what?
Are we trying to drown out foreign influence now? Like, idk, China? North Korea?
Media is our biggest GDP dollar. Donnie is playing with fire here. I’d bet my life savings he backs down, like he has on everything else.
Maybe he’s talking about movies shot in Canada? I think a lot (no idea of an actual percentage) of movies are shot in Vancouver.
A lot of TV shows and movies are made in Canada because our dollar is worth less, so American companies get more value for their money.
Québec has done a lot of VFX for movies too. Hallmark movies often film in northern Ontario.
…software is next…
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The US being by far the biggest exporter of movies, the only way this makes sense is that Trump is not seeing enough ass-kissing (and
bribescampaign donations) from the US movie industry, so he’s actively trying to damage them.Claim foreign movies are a threat, wait for other countries to retaliate against US movies, sit back and watch
bribessales of $TRUMP grow as the major studios seek his political favor.Explain to me how the fuck does this fix the economy?…
Making people poorer helps the rich get richer
Not when retaliatory tariffs come up
Ah yes that correct!
I don’t think that’s what he’s trying to do.
2+2=5
How would that even work? At what point do you charge the tariff?
That’s a good question. Everything is digital nowadays, so it’s not like we’re getting film reels from Bollywood.
If I had to wager a guess, the cinemas would probably be paying the tariff at the time of acquiring the license to show the film.
Or more likely the streaming service. How much of Netflix/Prime/Apple/Hulu’s library is shot outside the contiguous US? How much is entirely foreign everything except funding and profits?
This guy is playing a board game and losing to a toddler.
The problem is he brought a deck of poker cards to a chess game.
I think this is good. It will help local (outside the US) artistic industries space to flourish without being threatened by Hollywood.
Movies all over the world face inmence pressure form competing from Hollywood, buy without that pressure, they could focus on their local strengths instead.
Yeah USians are probably fucked though, but it’s kinda bad to feel bad for the facists and their enablers.
I didn’t vote for him. But fuck me anyway I guess.
There is a whole lot more to a healthy democracy than “I voted”.
As a dual US and EU citizen, good!* European movies are better than that Hollywood shit anyway.
*for the record, neither this nor anything else Trump is doing is actually good.
For someone that said he explicitly doesn’t like losers, he sure can embody one.
I’m getting so sick of this guy.
On some level this is a good thing. Many American movies are low level oligarch propaganda (e.g. The “Tony Stark” character in Iron Man).
We shouldn’t be funding what is essentially a proto-fascist state. While there are many sane Americans, they have yet to prove that they have the risk tolerance to fight back effectively. From my experience living in the US, American culture isn’t really suited for that kind of thing.
Is the “we” in this Canada or Mexico or something?
I’m not following. If Trump’s incoherent ramblings are to be generously interpreted, he wants all production to move back to the states. Currently many countries, and states, have huge tax incentives and other government handouts to encourage filming on their ground. If they all go back to that states, the American Companies lose that free foreign money, and depending on how it all shakes out, states will still be paying out tax incentives. At least for awhile as the industry finds a new home.
That’s all extremely hypothetical to try and understand Trump.
The We refers to the rest of the world.
What Trump is saying is irrelevant. Best to not pay for American media. Subscribe to your local streaming companies that offer content in your local language, watch movies and series from other countries. A dollar to America is a dollar to supporting fascism.
And not all of it works on a tax incentive basis. Here in Ukraine the cost differential alone was enough to attract film productions (pre-full scale russian invasion of course).
If sane Americans get their house in order (not Biden or Harris style bullshit, but real anti-corruption programs that decapitate the US oligarchy), then that’s another discussion. But that is a big if.
As a film technician in Canada, I sadly can’t be so strict. Yeah I swapped deodorant, Ceasar dressing, energy drinks, cancelled my Prime and Uber, but I got to make a living.
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For sure, every small bit counts. Power in numbers.
A single person dropping all American spend does nothing. 100 million people cutting down US directed spend by 25% is going to hurt.
I was under the impression that they film a great deal of movies in Canada because it costs far less than filming anywhere else. We also have places that look very modern while maintaining very gothic cities and all of the land in between that could be filmed to look like many places abroad. So he’s costing the film industry the savings that they have gotten used to by filming in Canada. Art of the deal.
Tons of Hollywood films are shot in Hungary! Dune being one of them, but there’s many many more. Cheap extras, cheap studio space and VFX industry.
Apart from the point that this would be illegal (he won’t know or care, but it is), imagine other countries responding in kind? At least our country imports more media from the US than we produce on our own. And the return tarrifs costs and losses caused by that would also hit primarily US companies like Netflix, Disney, Amazon, AplleTV…
