Why is french media so based?

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Why is french media so based?
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I originally came in here to refute your claim. "That doesn't happen in The Stranger...wait. Well, doesn't happen in Pere Goriot. Nevermind."

I then came to the realization that if they aren't killing/fucking someone that they themselves are being killed.

The only time I can think of this not happening is Martyrs, a movie where the women are endlessly tortured and beaten.
 
Asterix is pretty kino. However Tintin is Belgian not French, before anyone brings that up.
Still also kino though.
 
I fucking loved Lastman, started off as an adult comic, then got a prequel cartoon. Inspired by chinese cartoons with the typical french flair.

In one episode there's a pervert demon that makes people fuck until they heart explode. You're welcome.
 
Yeah, they have some cool aspects. Their movies and comics can be out there and they release manga that the US wouldn't. Then again, they had the Charlie Hebdo incident, revere Jerry Lewis and protect Roman Polanski.
 
The French have historically always hated the British, or competed with the British over influence.
It's so ingrained into their culture that when US media started spreading worldwide and English started to become the world language French were much better prepared to resist it and did so right from the beginning. They literally have a government agency in place to do just that.

As a consequence they've avoided a lot of the cuckoldry being tied to the American cultural sphere has brought upon most of the Western world. Even their leftists are more reminiscient of the old labor movement than the modern US iteration obsessed over trans representation in video games or whatever the fuck.

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How the French Promote and Protect Their Language

Though there are a number of minority languages, there is just one official language in France – the French language or Français to native speakers. The French people are known to be very vigilant in protecting their language. Recently, efforts to safeguard Français in France
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I guess I’ll sperg a bit about my French movie fetish.
I think the French unlike many other european countries embrace their morbid past. They capitalize on things like the guillotine, catacombs, and old religious practices. They’re very isolationists but are amongst so many other countries that they have to go to extremes to stand out. This is often reflected in their media particularly film. Take a director like Gaspar Noé. His works are not only incredibly morib but also reflective of real life events and trauma. “Irreversible” the story of a woman’s rape told in vivid detail but backwards. It’s an awfully bizarre topic to cover and outside of maybe Japan or 1970s Italy it’s not something any other country would proudly represent as a piece of art. But France does. Noé is considered the best by many and has won many awards. So to answer your question why is “French media so based?” Well it’s cuz they’re taking the extra step that other places aren’t.
 
They're certainly not afraid of having racist imagery in their comics and cartoons. I don't see Lucky Luke ever becoming mainstream in the US at this point.

I know there was the Hanna-Barbera cartoon but did they have black caricatures like this? I know they had full-on Chinese and Indian (obviously) stereotypes.

The Go West movie had what I assume was a big black woman from NOLA who wasn't like this. I'm guessing it has to do with the perception of the character from the viewpoint of others? I think I saw someone make that excuse for Tintin.
 

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