Say like they picked French or Spanish to use instead

Because American Media has a lot of influence so I wonder what if English wasn’t chosen. Would there be people that would see French/Spanish as a desirable language to learn?

    • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 days ago

      Problem is that it:

      1. lacks the amount of colonization as British empire had
      2. Mandarin-media is so boring. They’d never get widespread like Hollywood stuff. I used to watch them as a kid, but then I just realized they’re repeating the same cliches too often… It’s basically just half anti-japan stuff and half set in imperial China, never anything exciting.
        • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          2 days ago

          Lmao, skimmed the plot on wikipedia and it sound so wild.

          Maybe I’ll look for a torrent.

          Bizzare plots are kinda fun sometimes.

          Like… it doesn’t sound like a “good” movie, per se, more like one of those “silly” movies imo, similar to “Olympus has fallen” or “Moonfall”, if you know what I mean. Sometimes these silly movies are kinda fun to watch, like ridiculous movie action is always funny.

          • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 days ago

            yeah I heard it mentioned in passing in a video essay and looked it up to see it was the highest grossing domestic movie in China when it was released, definitely on my watchlist now

            doesn’t sound like an arthouse masterpiece but fun action schlock I agree lol