Speaking English in a film made for English speaking audiences is "cultural imperialism"?
In speaking about a new film on Che Guevara, the Cuban terrorist, Steven Soderbergh was asked about filming the movie entirely in Spanish:
"You can't make a film with any level of credibility in this case unless it's in Spanish," Soderbergh said. "I hope we're reaching a time where you go make a movie in another culture, that you shoot in the language of that culture. I'm hoping the days of that sort of specific brand of cultural imperialism have ended."
Cultural imperialism? So a movie about this thug is only "credible" if it is in Spanish? Otherwise it amounts to cultural imperialism? What does that even mean? Just more liberal psychobabble, designed to sound intellectual. Ironic given that the film is no doubt a puff piece glamorizing Che, poster boy and t-shirt favorite of the modern young leftists.
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