I feel like elaborating on this -- Americans have such a self-centered view of pop culture they often don't realize, like fish not knowing what water is, when people from other countries are deliberately "acting American" and imitating US culture Especially in animehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1294575849220395009 …
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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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It took me a while to realize that SCTV's fictional setting of Melonville was a town in the United States. They had to invent Bob and Doug McKenzie to satisfy Canadian content regulations, because the rest of the time they were mocking US entertainment culture.
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Where it really becomes clear is the "CBC" episode, where they spend the length of one show actually making fun of Canadian television instead. It opens with the head of SCTV making a condescending speech about "the delightful snow creatures" up north lending their feed.
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This indirectly fits the appeal of James Bond. Even though the character is certainly British, he fits a lot of the american ideals of masculinity.
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