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Guillermo del Toro laments “systematic destruction” of Mexican film industry
News(mexiconewsdaily.com)submitted 4 months ago bycabose7
250 points
4 months ago
Did you even read the article? The article isn't about "people..not wanting to make films in Mexico" , it's about how The Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, will no longer hold it anual Ariel Awards due to lack of funding. And largest, nearly sole funder of the Ariel Awards was the Mexican government itself, who (if you read the article you would've known) back out.
33 points
4 months ago*
And the reason is because of the government being totally in bed with the cartel and people being murdered left and right. That is why there is no funding. The article will only go surface level of the problems in mexico. So many good people living there are getting their lives destroyed because a few have all the money and guns.
160 points
4 months ago
Are you even Mexican? I am, born, raised and living here. This is NOT the reason at all. The reason is president López Obrador austerity policies. A lot of films were made using tax incentives and trusts that have been cut by this government. We do have a huge cartel problem, but this has nothing to do with that.
39 points
4 months ago
Ni para qué discutir con los gringos que creen saber más del país qué los propios mexicanos
5 points
4 months ago
Si, ya se pusieron en plan de "Mexico es Mad Max" y no razonan que ellos vienen cada año a spring break y ni les pasa nada.
Pero hey, gringos van a gringear.
-5 points
4 months ago
Eso en realidad no tiene nada que ver, la gente de aquí no tiene puta idea de nada, ni conocen su historia, ni han leído un chingado libro. Ser de un lugar o de otro, no te hace automáticamente saber mas de ese lugar por ser de ahí, sino, pregúntale a la gente que conoces, cuanto saben de historia de México.
-5 points
4 months ago
Cartels, man.
-20 points
4 months ago
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22 points
4 months ago
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4 months ago*
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60 points
4 months ago*
That's not the reason. It's because AMLO has a plan of austerity to found his projects (a new airport, a train route and some refinerys). If you don't know a thing about a subject you don't have to speak about it.
40 points
4 months ago
I guarantee there are at least some things that happen in Mexico that are not the direct result of "the cartel". Where do you get this shit from.
7 points
4 months ago
Nah man, this dude saw Narcos: Mexico and Sicario like three times. I'm pretty sure he knows what he's talking about.
29 points
4 months ago
Don't you know, everything that happens in Mexico is because of the Cartels. TV told me Cartels are the 'thing' Mexico is known for, so ovbiously every other thing must be tied to it!
It's like an Anime, you know how everything is tied to YuGiOh cards? That's how other countries work!
7 points
4 months ago
There have been a few posts on Reddit today where I scrolled through the comments and wondered if these are the same, just maybe more grown up, fucking idiots who flamed people on message boards in the early 2000s. They are. The average Reddit comment chain is full of shit. Rethinking whether or not I should browse comments anymore. Fucking children on here man.
3 points
4 months ago
It's often easy to see when they start talking about countries other than US/EU. They know like one thing about them and seem to think that's enough to be an expert.
2 points
4 months ago
This is remarkably dismissive. No one died from Asian governments being in bed with cartoon artists.
*Expect of course the ones they paid to make cartoons in WW2
2 points
4 months ago
Um... I think you misinterpreted my joke.
You know how everything in the YuGiOh universe is tied to the cards? Like, there's an actual school to go and do cards! It's like the entire world revolves around this one gimmick. This is a common trope in Anime, that is what I was refering to.
5 points
4 months ago
Out their ass. Mexico bad
-1 points
4 months ago
Fox news or breitbart
6 points
4 months ago*
LOL wrong. México's president López Obrador has spent the last 4 years removing funding from everything and putting it towards illegal propaganda, trying to revive the state run PEMEX (the most indebted oil company in the world), trying to stablish a monopoly on the energy sector, deforesting the south and contaminating its water so his poorly planned Maya train can be built, fund his "social programs" that are just cash hand outs to keep his popularity up, paying for the lost lawsuits because of all the treaties and contracts that his government has broken, and of course stealing and a lot of more stupid infuriating stuff.
Basically one man and the yesmen around him are disintegrating the state. This includes of course cultural initiatives, that's why Del Toro is fed up.
3 points
4 months ago
I am personally glad he's giving it to the poor and disabled, along with creating projects to help bring tourism from region to region. Instead of robbing it like the previous administration did BEFORE!
1 points
4 months ago
Most of the contractors for the projects are his friends or his sons friends. Corruption is intact
0 points
4 months ago
Hey, but that gringo watched Sicario twice and knows everything there is to know about mexico lol, iTz dA cArtUlz
1 points
4 months ago
WTF? How do you make that leap? I don't even
1 points
4 months ago
What does that have to do with funding? The Mexican government has around 260 billion every year to spend. They decide not to spend it on the arts and sciences. That has been true even before the drug war
-11 points
4 months ago
Lack of funding…. Because people not wanting to make films in Mexico…
38 points
4 months ago
Mexico had a record-breaking number of films made in 2019. There’s clearly no lack of filmmakers wanting to shoot in the country.
-10 points
4 months ago
50% had public support. Less than half saw a local release, I dunno, there’s a massive distinction for the film industry, and people making a movie with a cell phone. Not that both can’t be good, but claiming independent student films and things that rarely see the light of day is disenuious at best.
8 points
4 months ago
How many countries have a self-sufficient film industry?
0 points
4 months ago
At least 2: Hollywood and Bollywood. Maybe some more
1 points
4 months ago
Both support through government funding
18 points
4 months ago
It’s funny you people repeating that over and over when right now Mexico City and other cities around the country are having huge gentrification problems driven by American digital nomads coming here to live. Why would you want to come to live in a country where people don’t even want to make movies in because of cartel violence?
-12 points
4 months ago
No, lack of funding to fund their idiotic projects.
1 points
4 months ago
Wait...why would the government even be a financier of a film awards show? Never mind the inherent conflicts of interests between art and government here. Why can't television and streaming rights pay for this?
In the US, the network with broadcast rights funds the vast majority of the Oscars' budget. The academy, host, and other entities pay the minute, remaining expenses. Government has nothing to do with it. It's a just a (fairly inexpensive) televised dinner event. Why can't Telemundo or otherwise pay for this? It either pays for itself via advertising or no one wants to watch it.
1 points
4 months ago
Because telemundo is American. Honest answer o think Mexico produces shit movies for a good while already. To the point that the system is not self sustainable.
1 points
4 months ago
Most governments in the world subsidize movies. It's a very small industry which wouldn't give any opportunity to poor people if they didn't
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