Elvis never made a bad movie. Insomuch as they are all watchable af.
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1
Did you know that Speed Racer was originally conceived of as a tribute to Elvis (specifically Viva Las Vegas)
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1
The instrumentation of the original Japanese theme song makes it much clearer it's a pastiche of an Elvis songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTq7AJm_GI …
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Wow. Yeah that’s very Viva Las Vegas insomuch as instrumentation and production.
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1
There's some irony that the American dub of the anime made it so much less clear that it was a "love letter to American culture" Though that's because the American dub was produced for like $600
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There seems to be a lot of Japanese media that’s doing just that for some time. Or the stuff I was exposed to, I’m hardly a barometer of that at all.
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1
The usual take is that the US distorted Japan around its gravitational pull unusually hard even compared to what we've done to other countries Given that the US literally occupied Japan after the war with the intention of rebuilding Japanese culture from the ground up etc
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I mean I heard so many of the beat em up arcade games sort of drew from Streets of Fire being huge over there. The iconography divorced of the reality of the place. I mean Akira is West Side Story.
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Yeah it's funny, Streets of Rage ends up being this parodic caricature of the '80s Reaganite conservative fear of "the inner city" as a churning cauldron of violence Literally you're just walking down the street and everyone attacks you
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Is that the one where the mayor starts throwing hooks? In suspenders. That ruled.
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