Is Hollywood Being Asianized?

The import of foreign talent from Hollywood has been a constant since its inception. In fact, great American films are the work of authors from outside the U.S. like Ernst Lubitsch, FW Murnau, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Paul Verhoeven.  By these names is evident that Hollywood try to keep western values, no matter if it was a Hollywood film, a remake movie from Asia or Europe, a cartoon or a video game, It is often argued that Hollywood plays an extremely significant role in the development of global uniformity, by instilling the Western values and ways of life into other cultured films. (Klein 2004) At the end it will be always “Americanised”. But why is then Hollywood being Asianized? Doesn´t matter if it’s because Hollywood is running out of ideas, or because Asian industry is growing, or because since the 1990s there were more Asians working in Hollywood (Klein 2004).The real fact is that every day more and more Hollywood films have an Asian background.

Japanese Cartoons, Animes: One of the most famous Japanese cartoon Dragon Ball have a Hollywood movie made with real actors.

Video Games: Street Fighter Console video game that appear for first time in Arcade Games and the first Nintendo Console, had a remake movie and remake " Americanized"Cartoon... Giving a first roll to Guille an United States Army Soldier, Instead of Ryu and Ken Japanese Martial Art Fighters.

Classic Disney Cartoon: The Lion King Simba and the White Lion Kimba

Asian Horror movies: Disturbing and almost indecipherable stories come from Asian horror films with scripts that are born of ancient myths and legends of the ancient cultures of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand 

References:

Klein, Christina 2004, ‘Martial arts and globalisation of US and Asian film industries’, Comparative AmericaStudies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 360-384.

Hollywood Remakes from Asia : http://www.imdb.com/list/25J16taTicE/