I have to say, this conversation is as much eye opening as it is refreshing
Oh, I'm very familiar with Charles V, because his extended Bourbon and Habsburg houses have shaped the history of Europe and her colonies, and Europe itself. I grew up on the closed off end of the Iron Curtain, but the divide between East and West did not start with Charles V. In fact, a major factor to that rift goes back to the 14th century. The Hundred Years War just ended when the Ottoman occupation started its first signs in Europe. If you ever care to take a look at the map of the Black Death, you'll notice that Central and Eastern Europe got off relatively unscathed from the affair, simply because the trade routes largely have already avoided them. In other words, incoming barbaric hordes from the east or south mattered not much.
Suleiman's endgame to his death was to conquer enough land from the Holy Roman Empire to force Charles's brother, the Austrian/Bohemian/Hungarian king to either pay a constant ransom customary in the oriental faith, or what's more likely, to have him accept his domain, and via his cultured wife, to elevate his reign to a status rivaling that of Charles. This is why nations on the Mediterranean teach their history differently from Central and Eastern Europe, in that the former talks more about the naval battles and the failed attempt to capture the pope for ransom.
Meanwhile Charles simply viewed the colonies as an extension and replacement for territories they lost to the Turks. That's when Europe irreparably broke off into two, not in the 20th century.
Asian cinema produces so called Category III movies, which translate into X rated, though some still get cinematic outings, for example in Korea. I've seen a blaxploitation karate movie from HK from 1974, but haven't seen Black Emmanuelle (by Lucio Fulci) or regular Emmanuelle in Asia, a movie with lesbians for a non-Caucasian market may easily exist. Cultural hemisphere is a real thing, in that what in my view is most rare is a movie where neither cultures are a window dressing to another. Seriously, I have seen 2 Chinese movies, one shot in Milan, the other in Paris and both after the 20 minute mark turned into a movie about Chinese characters, simply because the audience can hardly identify themselves with people they're rarely exposed to.
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