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   Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:25:22 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

   🥱 While some remarkable indie stuff comes from Hollywood, most its production is *very* homogeneous at a given time in terms of aesthetics, story structures, people making it. I want more diverse aesthetics, cultural background and people!

   💥 Some cultural tropes from the USA are almost inevitable, got ingrained in my mind: Most movies contain at least one gun shot. Some contain hundreds, if not thousands, and explosions. Gun saves. "Good guy with a gun" wins. Heroes and cars...

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:25:25 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     🪖 Even some of the most modest productions get infused by the geopolitical agenda of the USA, and the PR interests of its armies and intelligence agencies: USA always the center of the World, the "good guys", defines "bad guys".

     😵💫 This is subtle but extremely powerful. I want to reset my perspectives and World view by adding multiple input, by counter-balancing that force. In past 20years, thanks to #bittorrent🌊 I explored cinema of all places and times:

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:25:44 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     🌍 From Japan's Kurosawa's classics, to Italian Giallo; from Hong-Kong Shaw Bros to Soviet neo-realism; From Truffaut to Mocky to Melville; from Pasolini to Pietrangeli to Fellini; from Argentina to Poland, etc. The list is endless!

     🤯 The more I learn, the more I realize I know *nothing* about Cinema! So much has been produced everywhere, by people of such different backgrounds, animated by such similar passion of sharing stories with the World!

     🎶 (dont get me started on soundtracks!)

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:25:46 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     My current conclusions:

     ✊ Cinema, like all things is political;

     🧠 Like all works of the mind, it influences people;

     📚 Like all cultural works it requires *active* participation/navigation/learning, otherwise one ends up being manipulated;

     🌊 #bittorrent rocks;

     ☠️ "war on #piracy" is a brutal form of imperialism serving US interests;

     🔫 I dislike guns/glorification of violence;

     🦖 huge special effects are rarely nice, most of the time overwhelming and boring, filling some void;

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:25:48 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     😴 stories where "good" triumphs over "evil" are often boring (a tiny fraction of ways to tell stories);

     🌟 like always: diversity is beautiful and inspiring;

     💞 Sharing is caring. <3

     I love all Cinema! ❤️ 🎬

     More on these topics 💾:

     https://annas-archive.org/md5/6452b48d7b4387bf401ef2acfa94b577

     https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unofficial-propaganda-arm-of-the-u-s-military-1.5560575

     https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/03/holl-m14.html
     https://www.levernews.com/inside-the-military-entertainment-complex/

     https://annas-archive.org/md5/f8cda463eedcc7c47ab71482f642b419 "Operation Hollywood : how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies" (PDF)

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     Jérémie Zimmermann???? (jz@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 23:25:53 JST Jérémie Zimmermann????

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     to explore #Cinema in perpendicular ways, i sometimes search my favourite #bittorrent trackers:

     - by directors, exploring entire filmographies (Truffaut, Hitchcock, Murnau, Lang, Melville, Lautner, Godard, Varda, Risi, Pietrangelli, Antonioni, Fellini, Yimou, Gavras, Wilder, Eisenstein, Fulci, Kurosawa, Campion, etc.)

     - by name (or through lists) of specific production houses (Hammer, Shaw, Ghibli, Golden Harvest, Cannon, ..)

     - by year, for fantastic journeys 1972, 1966, 1984, 1917, etc.