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China Setting in 'Looper' May Be Beginning of More Chinese Philosophy Imparted in American Movies_4206

China Setting in 'Looper' May Be Beginning of More Chinese Philosophy Imparted in American Movies If you haven't kept up on the news of time travel drama "Looper" being Moncler Outlet a co-production of China, then you've missed Louis Vuitton Shoes out on an ironic turning point in movie history. In fact, you can't help but wonder if someone from the future has time traveled back to our year and tried to Louis Vuitton Sunglasses rectify the situation of preventing China from financing and influencing American films. Anybody who may have tried has failed, because even Chinese philosophy has found its way into the script of "Looper." Yes, China demanded a script rewrite at the last minute to depict China as a mighty superpower in Moncler Outlet the future where they've also mastered time travel and convinced Americans to live there. It's a future they probably already think is happening now. And if they truly do master time travel, perhaps that aforementioned time traveler made this happen. Most people in the movie industry likely aren't surprised as other productions start seeking out financing in China due to a slagging Hollywood economy. The troubling nature comes when China can't let an American film stand on its own and demands changes to a script that allows Chinese philosophy to creep in. Even if China's film industry is burgeoning and they Louis Vuitton USA want maximum profit in their own country, are they doing exactly what we'd do to them? You can argue the case that American philosophy has been force fed to China for decades in films we financed on canada goose jakke our own. But while they sometimes ban certain American films, America can't release a juggernaut such as "Looper" to just the indie movie houses. For the Louis Vuitton Outlet USA first time in American history, a young generation will go see an influential mainstream film and receive a subtle message that living in China is better than living Hermes Belts in America. The question is whether that message alone is all that bad when economic opportunity falters in your home country. Anything more troubling would be if a Chinese-American produced film manages to impart deeper Chinese philosophy into the script to the point where it influences the thinking of a younger generation on the meaning of democracy. You can't help Replica Louis Vuitton but imagine a film that starts to subtly espouse the benefits of tighter government control to weed out prurient pop culture influencing society. Not that a sociological sci-fi tale wouldn't be intriguing in exploring such an idea. When it's placed into a film that doesn't pertain to that, then it becomes alarming. And signs point to more of this in the future as China likely continues to provide financing for our own entertainment. Whether anyone will be able to scope it out to put it in perspective will be a whole other debate. Reports are that when people see "Looper's" protagonist Joe deciding to live in China via suggestion of his boss, audiences laugh at the irony. If patriotic Americans are bothered in the future by much more insidious pro-Chinese messages, they'll have to take it the same way and assume it's mostly for the Chinese market and not persuading America to merge to create a peaceful red, white, blue, prada diaper bag and red nation.

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