Like Speed Racer is just the first and most blatant example of a show that was only kind of okay in Japan but became this massive cultural icon in America, partly because *the point of the show was it was an homage to American pop culture*
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It's happened a bunch of times since then Cowboy Bebop is the example I think everyone knows
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But there's a lot of examples throughout culture I think of Americans being really into people from other countries feeding us back our own cultural tropes, altered enough by the process that it feels novel to us Spaghetti Westerns and such
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The saga of American author Dashiell Hammett's noir novel Red Harvest being turned into by Akira Kurosawa into a samurai movie Yojimbo that in turn gets turned into a Western, A Fistful of Dollars, by Italian Sergio Leone
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I've seen this take before about, say, ABBA ABBA's music doesn't really take place in their native Sweden, it's about this imaginary America that only ever existed in movies and pop music -- "Dancing Queen" as this distilled iconic essence of "prom night"
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And because they never had the real thing to compare it to, their dream America was much purer and more potent than any version Americans had made in a while, and actual Americans were intoxicated by it
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