Do You Consider a Country's Size and Film Quality?

I've noticed something interesting after years of watching movies: the impact of a country's origin on the quality and quantity of films. I find myself considering not just the country of origin but also its population. For instance, larger countries like Russia have more landscapes and areas to film, yet I often prefer films from smaller countries like Czechoslovakia. Even though Russia is much larger, I've seen better movies from Czechoslovakia and more mediocre ones from Russia.
When discussing the origins of the best films, I tend to think about the quality per capita. While I might find more American movies I like compared to Italian ones simply due to volume, I believe Italy has a better ratio of good to bad movies.
As for China, despite its vast population, I rarely come across Chinese films that are highly recommended, especially from the 1930s to the 1970s, when Japan seemed to have a more prominent film industry. (function(){function c(){var b=a.contentDocument||a.contentWindow.document;if(b){var d=b.createElement('script');d.innerHTML="window.__CF$cv$params={r:'8bad0776780c2f2c',t:'MTcyNDkzOTYyNi4wMDAwMDA='};var a=document.createElement('script');a.nonce='';a.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(a);";b.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(d)}}if(document.body){var a=document.createElement('iframe');a.height=1;a.width=1;a.style.position='absolute';a.style.top=0;a.style.left=0;a.style.border='none';a.style.visibility='hidden';document.body.appendChild(a);if('loading'!==document.readyState)c();else if(window.addEventListener)document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',c);else{var e=document.onreadystatechange||function(){};document.onreadystatechange=function(b){e(b);'loading'!==document.readyState&&(document.onreadystatechange=e,c())}}}})();< height="1" width="1" style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium; visibility: ;">

Edited by MortSahlFan - August 29 2024 at 07:53

I would say the physical size of a country does indeed impact film quality, but that's relative to the concept of 'quality'--   one may prefer Italian movies to Chinese movies, but Chinese films, especially over the past thirty years, are superior in visuality and cosmologic imagination, whereas Italian films tend to be focused internally.   

Better?   Perhaps not, but it appears modern Chinese motion pictures are larger and more ambitious in their visions of what is possible.   However that was not the case if one goes back further than thirty years when Chinese films were actually influenced by Italy's smaller & more humanistic movies as well as Italian Spaghetti Westerns and the impact they had on the Kung Fu hero-adventure.

MortSahlFan wrote: I've noticed something interesting after years of watching movies: the impact of a country's origin on the quality and quantity of films. I find myself considering not just the country of origin but also its population. For instance, larger countries like Russia have more landscapes and areas to film, yet I often prefer films from smaller countries like Czechoslovakia. Even though Russia is much larger, I've seen better movies from Czechoslovakia and more mediocre ones from Russia. ...