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Like, it makes sense they wouldn't think of it (and also would struggle to do it well). America would think a story about an eagle learning to be a cowboy is too on the nose and we'd do it as such. But if china decided to do a kids movie that's as American as they can make it because it sounds cool and foreign they might manage to do it well.
Wrong, Eagle Cowboy sounds fucking awesome
I agree, but I don't think America can do it right. Just like how a lot of the most iconic westerns were made by Italians. Some American westerns were great like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly are some of the most well known and loved westerns for a reason. The European filmmakers could deal with the conquest of the American west in these films without seeing it through American eyes.
Like I'm down to see an eagle cowboy movie. Add a hissing marsupial and some bioluminescent flies, but if we did it we'd be blinded by ourselves. But I don't have a strong interest in seeing American cowboy films unless they're subversive, because most white American stories about things that are too culturally American are too masturbatory for me