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It's already hard to imagine a Hollywood studio making a movie that puts China in a bad light.



The same is true of all large markets. US movies generally don't put India/EU/Japan in a bad light because the goal is to maximize profits.

Consider the last Pearl Harbor (2001) at the time it was the sixth-best debut of all time in Japan. That was very much intentional and had a big impact on the film.


It's different, because an organization or individual making a negative movie about China might get all their future movies blacklisted from the country.


Hollywood did once put Japanese into a bad light in 80s~90s.

At least in RoboCop 3, the antagonists was Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_3


Poor Russia


So we're stuck with Russians, Nazis, and fictional -Stan countries. We've already reached that point in the video game industry.




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