100% tariffs on non-USA movies?

[JeffS7444]

If enacted, it will be yet another intrusion into matters of culture and the arts. And ironic, since I always thought of the movie industry as being pretty cosmopolitan.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7e2z1rxyo

 

[Chrispy]

Tariff on what? The value of a single copy or what? One of my specialties as a customs broker was dealing with films at festivals in LA and SF. Even got deposed by Customs about the "obscenity" thing.

 

[JeffS7444]

Tariff on what? The value of a single copy or what?

Everything they can get their greedy hands on?

 

[Titurel]

Even tariffs won't help Hollywood. Almost nothing there worth protecting.

 

[Chrispy]

Even tariffs won't help Hollywood. Almost nothing there worth protecting.

Tell us how you really feel. And what you consider superior of course.

 

[JSmith]

Seems like a way of shutting down international views in foreign films coming into the states... this whole tariff thing has become a bad joke.

Hollywood is under no threat whatsoever from foreign films.



JSmith

 

[Sokel]

What art is next, music perhaps?

 

[Titurel]

Tell us how you really feel. And what you consider superior of course.

Here are a few problems too often present in today's Hollywood flicks. Naked polemic: it's not only bad art, it's boring. The number of digital effects technicians shouldn't routinely outnumber the cast. Actors should not have to improvise fixes for bad writing. I enjoy a good formulaic film as much as anyone, but formula alone can't save stale writing, box-office casting, and weak direction.

The number of films superior to what's typically coming out of Hollywood is vast, so I'll only offer you a short list off the top of my head.

Lawrence of Arabia
Godfather 1 & 2
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Metropolis
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
La Dolce Vita
Bullet
Lagaan
The Seventh Seal
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Walkabout

Plus a few hundred (or thousand) more... and "maybe an old Steve Reeves movie"

 

[Bleib]

He destroys everything he touches. He has studies the matter in the last week, as that's time enough to understand it
I'm beginning to think that he really is a glitch in the matrix

 

[Chrispy]

Here are a few problems too often present in today's Hollywood flicks. Naked polemic: it's not only bad art, it's boring. The number of digital effects technicians shouldn't routinely outnumber the cast. Actors should not have to improvise fixes for bad writing. I enjoy a good formulaic film as much as anyone, but formula alone can't save stale writing, box-office casting, and weak direction.

The number of films superior to what's typically coming out of Hollywood is vast, so I'll only offer you a short list off the top of my head.

Lawrence of Arabia
Godfather 1 & 2
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Metropolis
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
La Dolce Vita
Bullet
Lagaan
The Seventh Seal
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Walkabout

Plus a few hundred (or thousand) more... and "maybe an old Steve Reeves movie"

Meh

 

[Thomas Savage]

If a industry is subsidised by the state , with the product produced then sold into foreign markets, its not uncommon for that product to be taxed at the border or even in some cases banned .

Large subsidises are avaliable for film and TV, certainly in the UK and I'm fairly sure elsewhere in Europe, possibly Canada, China?

The state involved then creates a unfair trading environment , to protect one's domestic market for that product , things get taxed ( a tariff ) , Fair trade ?

100% blanket tariff seems bonkers to me but a lot of film and tv production has gone outside the US due to state sponsored incentives aka subsidises.

One can discuss the merits of these things without planting a blue or red flag in the ground , insulting democratically elected leaders etc . In turn one can read through those insults without flying into incandescent rage .., unfortunately...

If one thinks their post will promote political division, reveal their own political allegiance and potentially alienate others , don't post it . We are united here through audio and music , let's stay that way.

 

[valerianf]

The side effect will be with a very defined boundary: in the theaters, the US viewers will only discover the US states, when the rest of the world will be educated/entertained discovering the whole Earth!
No more Gladiator, Spartacus, biblical or historical movies...
Forget The Battle of Midway (Midway).

 

[voodooless]

The side effect will be with a very defined boundary: in the theaters, the US viewers will only discover the US states, when the rest of the world will be educated/entertained discovering the whole Earth!
No more Gladiator, Spartacus, biblical or historical movies...
Forget The Battle of Midway (Midway).

Well, you’ll just have to get by with Judge Dredd sequels

 

[olieb]

What art is next, music perhaps?

If you start to tax intellectual achievements, then literature, music, paintings, science and patents will be next.

 

[Chr1]

Well, you’ll just have to get by with Judge Dredd sequels

Bring em on...
Loved Judge Dredd (2012) personally.

Best dystopian grimfest since Robocop IMHO.
"I'll buy that for a dollar!"

(Both quite prescient films too, I would suggest...Sequels just need added ICE agents.)

 

[Phorize]

Seems like a way of shutting down international views in foreign films coming into the states... this whole tariff thing has become a bad joke.

Hollywood is under no threat whatsoever from foreign films.



JSmith

I think we need to consider the possibility that a full economic and cultural impact assessment of this policy has not been carried out.

 

[Phorize]

The side effect will be with a very defined boundary: in the theaters, the US viewers will only discover the US states, when the rest of the world will be educated/entertained discovering the whole Earth!
No more Gladiator, Spartacus, biblical or historical movies...
Forget The Battle of Midway (Midway).

It might backfire with higher prices implying better quality-it works for Wilson Audio, why not the experimental art house film makers of Uzbekistan?

 

[delta76]

Everything they can get their greedy hands on?

after the shitshow with China, I don't think it'll ever be implemented. it's just something the orange says to get the spotlight

 

[Hiten]

Large subsidises are avaliable for film and TV, certainly in the UK and I'm fairly sure elsewhere in Europe, possibly Canada, China?

yes.
https://qz.com/473695/china-is-crea...se-to-rival-transformers-and-the-hunger-games

https://m.imdb.com/news/ni62989821/

Probably all countries do it. (mine too). we are in a world where each major power wants trade dominance. By fair rule book or not so fair. These thread will inevitably turn in to politics.

 

[Bleib]

These thread will inevitably turn in to politics.

Because it is politics. Bad politics.