The latest movies I have watched are: Jack Reacher, 22 Jump Street, and Wolverine. These are not my favorite movies, per se, but are the last three I have viewed at the cinema. Each had instances where foreign characters were portrayed as evil. Wolverine was set over in Japan and had the main characters love interest as Japanese, but at the same time made her seem very exotic. 22 Jump Street in the opening sequences made it look as if the Mexican Cartel was providing the US with drugs, comically of course. Jack Reacher had a man of Eastern European decent made out to be the biggest big/shady-business bad guy of all time.
These movies in particular don't exactly exacerbate the stigmatism the movie industry places on foreign countries. There are many examples where foreign (men in particular) are always up to know good. In Rocky you have the Russians; Avatar it's the people from Earth, and even in television shows like House of Cards where the Chinese are trying to make a free floating currency.
I don't think it's fair we feed into this idea of patriotism where if you're not American than you are second class. Then we tend to in movies make foreign women (even American women) into sex icons. It's not uncommon for the Russian female spy to be dressed in a tight black leather outfit. Is that really how the movie industry perceives other countries? That they're either up to no good or are extremely attractive AND up to no good?
I've only watched a handful of foreign films and I've never seem them portray Americans with this sort of slight. It seems if they wanted to fight fire with fire they could show a bunch of overweight Americans at a burger joint.
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