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Both pit a morally hidebound middle against a culturally permissive overclass.
Given the track record of most diversification experiments, Sony should have a "do not try this at home" label attached, but its adaptability and innovation belie the traditional critique of Japanese corporations as hidebound and conformist.
One is hidebound, stiff, silent in the face of media criticism.
I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.
The first is that the film's mainstream success--it's now grossed more than $108 million--speaks to the tremendous flexibility of even as hidebound an industry as Hollywood.