Russia: Winter, shots of the Kremlin and saint petersburg for some reason. A granny in a babushka walking the street. Mean looking military men in soviet uniforms, don't ask why.
A granny in a babushka walking the street.
Matryoshka babushka.
granny in a babushka
It's fucking wild how the portrayal of Russian women changed over time
During the Cold War: lol Russian women are old and ugly
After the Cold War: :awooga:
I saw a Tik Tok the other day made up of historical photos, one was a black and white photo of a Russian woman being forced out of her home by "Soviet Troops" after losing her husband and brothers in..............wait for it.......1995
I saw a WW2 documentary a while ago where they put sinister music over anything to do with the Soviets regardless of what was being discussed
Any scene in China will take place either during lunar New year, in Shenzhen at night time with all the building lights on, or 5 ft away from the Great Wall.
Really gotta seal in the Jackie Chan flavour, regardless of whether he had anything to do with the film.
Then it cuts to seedy red light district with women wearing skimpy outfits talking to thuggish guys or johns
american south: sweaty black people walking around or working with bright blue skies with white women using fans to air their faces. lots of dirt roads. have someone speak in the stupidest drawl you can
As someone who has always lived in the south, this is mostly accurate though.
Segregation is very much still a thing in the south. Black people are often forced to live in separate neighborhoods because of systemic racism. Then white people in the south will be like "Don't go to that neighborhood, it's a bad neighborhood" and it's just like black people existing there. In the south, black people are sometimes forced to live in entirely separate towns from white people.
There are lots of dirt roads because the infrastructure is shit and the government is run by chuds who block any sort of new infrastructure from going in.
Here's a secret about the southern accent. It is very performative. The stupider drawl you have, the more southern cred you have. That's it. If you don't participate in the performance, people think you're weird. People in the south will make fun of you for not doing the stupid drawl.
There's also confederate flags everywhere. There's white people who casually use the hard-r in public and people think it's normal. There's no labor unions.
The inaccuracy of the way that movies portray the American south is that they don't go far enough. The stupidest southern drawl that you've heard in a movie is not a fraction of how stupid southern drawls actually are. The American south is way more reactionary and racist than a movie should even portray. Movies should not accurately portray the south because the movie would be too racist and reactionary.
The failure to fully reconstruct the South after the Civil War is one of America's greatest tragedies.
Some bridges in the South that had been destroyed were not even fixed till after WWI.
Two elderly black men sitting on the porch in overalls or plaid shirts and jeans
Old skinny white guy running the small gas station
Cut to shot of white father and son walking home from a hunt in the forest with guns slung on their shoulders
Boston - someone says a racial slur
They do this in the Departed and it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. WTF Scorsese?
Actually watching it right now, inspired the joke. I mean the racial slur and subsequent homophobia did make me go "yep, that's Boston".
if it works, it works :shrug-outta-hecks: says more about Boston than The Departed imo
My reading was that the erectile dysfunction, him being closed off and stuff was hinting at his conscience eating at him, since it the Hong Kong version that character is revealed to had second thoughts and turned himself in at the end. It just came from nowhere there since there was no buildup. The funny part is that in this one there was a seeming build up, but the guilty conscience thing doesn't enter at all in the end.
"can't wait to go to this bodega, only in New York"
*TTC streetcar rolls by, CN tower makes it into poorly planned shot
Even when Mexico is supposed to look cool it has that stupid fucking filter, like the opening scene of James Bond Spectre.
I was watching that D*sney Ms Marvel show recently, not of my own choice, and seeing "Pakistan" (I looked it up and they filmed those scenes in Thailand due to COVID and "political instability") shown without a filter was nice even if it was filmed in a different country.
The couple episodes I watched even showed scenes from the partition, how horrible it was and that it was caused by asshole Brits, but didn't dive into why. I got to educate the people that made me watch it on why exactly it was bad and how it was done to purposely cause suffering as part of a long line of colonial crimes.
A little odd, because the Boston liberal/conservative will do everything right up to the point of saying a racial slur while sincerely trying to claim they aren't racist.
