Film Influence On American Culture

American Film influence on world culture How can people live up to the American hype? White teeth, hot sex, perfect chiseled bodies, money, power, superpowers, even true love. Do other cultures feel the same pressure to assimilate to be these idealized characters and visions? People everywhere regardless of upbringing being bombarded with the same redundant ideas. It has to be infiltrating the mind set, and changing their cultures. American ideas of success, of flawless images shoved down everyones throat to make more money for Hollywood, over saturation of these same ideas, endlessly wearing on the people. Consumerism, glamorized, and pre-packaged for the masses. Movie after movie filled with meaningless glorified violence. American film

American films not only push beauty, they push fashion ,success, materialism, slang, drug use and sex. Visit a small isolated country and you will see this American influence; Coca Cola, McDonalds and Nike to name a few. This is not a new thing, in 1987, “79% of film and television exports world wide originated in the U.S, lack of local production lead to other countries filling empty time slots with American film.” (ReinholdWagenlitner, 1993.) Young people in particular are fascinated with American culture. Wanting to look like their idols, dress the way they do and buy the possessions they flaunt in film. When one has grown up watching American film it is only natural that the would acquire these Americanized traits. Even Michael Gorbachev used American film ideas when he said the philosophy he used was, “Frank Sinatra… I’ll do it my way.” Certainly having this as a basis for his decisions further proves American film influence on other

American rating system is very different than in Europe as well as other countries world wide. Here violence slips under the radar, but nudity is vilified. There nudity is a much more excepted as reality and violence is highly discouraged or only shown when necessary. In an article of the L.A times this is mentioned, "In many Korean films, the violence is justified, where in Hollywood entertainment movies it's more cartoonish, violence is depicted as a joke, and it doesn't have a social subtext.” (Mark Olsen, L.A Times, 2013.) American film is more focused on making money than being politically