I'm from denmark and I don't watch danish TV/movies at all.
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The World Wants More Danish TV
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Re: The World Wants More Danish TV
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I certainly tire of too many Hollywood productions supposedly located in Europe or Asia but with obvious California landscapes.
The specific example I was thinking of is some Netflix series (might be Sex Education ?) that is ostensibly set in a school in England and has English actors, but is written like it was set in a US school, full of details that are completely out of place. I'll admit I haven't watched it though, I just saw someone criticising it.
Well, here's the inverse, this is filmed in NY, live even, but it feels 100% authentic British:
Re: The World Wants More Danish TV
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also quite expensive, since the Danish government provides a lacklustre funding for filming, according to Danish film makers. Even Danish productions often goes to places like the Czech Republic to film, because financial advantages are much better there.
Do Danish filmmakers feel it's essential that the government fund their work?
Many european filmmakers but also many European publics, feel that it's not just essential that the state fund such work, but also part of the role of state.
They don't consider the government some hateful opponent entity (or rather, they don't consider the state that. They can still hate this or that particular party / person running the government, protest its decisions, etc.).
The government is people they have voted into power to pass laws and guide the state machinery. They expect from the state to promote arts and fund culture, the same way they expect of it to make roads and maintain public infrastructure.
The US doesn't need that because
(a) there's not an emphasis on culture in the European sense, it's more about entertainment, most don't even believe there's a distinction between these two
(b) it dominates globally and has the most money, so they can push their culture everywhere anyway and teach global audiences to prefer their ware from a young age (after enough Spielberg and Michael Bay and superhero stuff kids become desensitized to movies with no SFX and explosions -- that happened to European cinema -- once equally or more popular as the American in Europe -- after the late 80s and the rise of the Spielberg era),
(c) it still gives all kinds of incentives, tax breaks, government (e.g. army) support for movies anyway, just doesn't call it for what it is
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#44I hope it doesn't lead to them trying to make American shows that are ostensibly set in the Nordic countries but don't feel at all like it. It's already happened to the UK.
Interesting. Here's a related phenomenon: currently Spanish-speaking Netflix is flooded with a batch of Spanish-made comedies, romances, dramas and thrillers -- the most high-profile of which is The Money Heist ("La Casa de Papel") -- most of which have a distinctly Hollywood/generic feel to them. Every character and situation is a cliché from Hollywood, with no local flavor. Save for the accents of some of the actors, there's no Spanish feel to these shows. Even the credits soundtrack is in English.
I wonder if the netflixization of shows will tend to erradicate local flavor forever, and if so -- what's even the point of watching them? I don't want to watch yet another heist movie or prison drama, only with Spanish actors instead of American ones.
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#46They're all crime procedurals. I'd like to see more Scandinavian prestige dramas not centered around detectives returning to their hometowns or whatever.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do Danish filmmakers feel it's essential that the government fund their work?
Aren't most films subsidized in some ways, even the huge successful ones? Lots of communities bend over backwards to get them to come and film. Tax breaks, cheap studio rent or whatever. New york gave out $621M a year in tax breaks, that's as much as $31 dollar per person living there, according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_production_incentives_in...
Perhaps, but as the article says: "Unlike other European countries, Denmark does not offer tax incentives to production companies."
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#48Any recommendations for Danish tv shows? (can't open the article)
The Danish TV series has to be Matador. Not sure about its availability or if it's the sort of show you had in mind. But it's entertaining and really well written and it tells a lot about Denmark and the Danish self image. I'm re-watching it now with my family and we are all really enjoying it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_(Danish_TV_series)
I think the biggest issue for danish releases is that the producers and distributors haven't bothered with english subtitles, even though most releases would see a scandinavian edition, but not an english one for whatever reason.
I would love to show my girlfriend one of the Olsenbanden movies, but there are no international releases I could find. I did write to Nordisk Film to ask about it, but I got no response back.
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#49I'm from denmark and I don't watch danish TV/movies at all.
I just mean all danish media sucks, and my mother tongue makes me want to puke. lol.
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#50There have been so many extra shows filmed here in Denmark that we've had to import extra rain from Norway, and push sunrise an hour later to give enough moody darkness.
Oh, common you would still have enough wind to blow everything away.
Btw I'm looking forward to see the next Lego movie to be created in Denmark where it belongs, preferably with life cast as well, that could be a huge international success (only half joking here).