tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post7596201612523420067..comments2024-02-28T02:21:55.733-08:00Comments on Four of Them: What I've Learned About Americans (from foreign films)Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08085105568601878075noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-90941623227766762762011-03-19T13:17:58.128-07:002011-03-19T13:17:58.128-07:00Franz: That video made me feel...icky.
Sugary: Th...Franz: That video made me feel...icky.<br /><br />Sugary: That is quite disturbing.<br /><br />CS: Wasn't the dwarf guy American too? I forget.<br /><br />Jose: Well, I imagine they'd involve random dance sequences and Khan references. As for the French, the American auteur movement was a long time ago, and we haven't exactly been living up to the legacy lately. For all we know, we're the world's biggest sellouts.<br /><br />Okinawa: What movie was this? And your description of US-France history is the best ever. Ever.<br /><br />Darren: We'll stop when you guys stop having such boss accents.<br /><br />Vance: I think I've heard of this one...I'd consider it a foreign film because at least half of it is in another language, though it's not subtitled (at least, the bits that I've seen weren't). And, yes, it appeared to be one of those fuck-and-be-awful movies that doesn't remember it's own point by the midpoint mark.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085105568601878075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-63220806274275195292011-03-15T13:35:06.987-07:002011-03-15T13:35:06.987-07:00To your point but not exactly, my least favorite m...To your point but not exactly, my least favorite movie of all time -- and I have discovered this recently through a scientific process that I will not detail here -- is a movie I saw just last August called Twentynine Palms. It's not a foreign film in the sense that you are discussing here, where it takes place in a foreign country and there's a token American -- it's set in the California desert. But it's directed by a French director (Bruno Dumont) and stars an American (David Wissack) and a Russian woman who speaks French (Yekaterina Golubeva). You'd think the reason I hate it is that Dumont's impression of Americans is so negative, but I'm not that type of guy -- the anti-American sentiment is just the icing on the cake of a truly awful, horrible and dramatically inert film in which America is filled with hillbilly rapists and one particular douchenozzle (Wissack's character) who is unremittingly monstrous to his girlfriend, for no apparent reason. Its aesthetic is the worst Vincent Gallo movie you've ever seen, which should turn off everyone else who hasn't already been turned off by this description.Derek Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13750747272647975591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-15181982349569930122011-03-15T01:59:42.702-07:002011-03-15T01:59:42.702-07:00Hey, at least you guys aren't the drunken, lau...Hey, at least you guys aren't the drunken, laughing-on-the-outside-crying-on-the-inside, "aye"-saying, punch-ya-as-soon-as-look-at-ya, funny-accented gombins that the Irish typically seem to be on screen. And you guys like us.Darrenhttp://m0vie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-68298936474603832982011-03-14T22:25:59.086-07:002011-03-14T22:25:59.086-07:00This discussion reminded me of a Filipino movie th...This discussion reminded me of a Filipino movie that I'll probably never find again. On a sea of Filipinos, there's four memorable American characters. Upstanding black female citizen and 3 GI's, the rape happy one, the boring one and the nice one who respects foreign sovereignty. I don't know what that all means. The movie's depiction of Americans are more diverse.<br /><br />Jose: which is also funny because US and France used to be besties, then US started hanging out with the UK, which made probably France butt hurt. That and nuclear and oil are driving US and France slowly apart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-56625977203709883632011-03-14T17:26:02.950-07:002011-03-14T17:26:02.950-07:00Well some people still kinda like American charact...Well some people still kinda like American characters. I guess what happens is that the entire world gets so fed up with all the blockbusters, Charlie Sheens and George W. Bushes, that they need to get their revenge in some way.<br />I've always found it funny that French people seem to dislike Americans so much, when the entire auteur movement was based on the work of seminal Hollywood cinema. I guess it all comes down to the power that comes with size (yes, size matters).<br />Since the US is so big and spreads its pop culture all over the world, they are meant to suffer more criticism.<br />Who knows the kind of jokes we'd be making if it was Bollywood that ruled the world.Notas Sobre Creación Cultural e Imaginarios Socialeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01423835555933819338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-85248128972261749632011-03-14T16:55:59.617-07:002011-03-14T16:55:59.617-07:00In fairness, Bon Cop, Bad Cop takes more jabs at o...In fairness, Bon Cop, Bad Cop takes more jabs at one specific American, the current NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, than it does America as a whole. Bettman and Canadian hockey fans do not gel at all. *shaking fist at Bettman*Courtney Smallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00045575858464121137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-62890517660411166852011-03-14T07:23:17.659-07:002011-03-14T07:23:17.659-07:00*sigh* we do kind of suck sometimes. What I found ...*sigh* we do kind of suck sometimes. What I found was really blatant though was Love Actually of all movies, cuz of Billy Bob Thornton playing this absolute twat, a bully, a massive tool...and it was the president of the U.S.<br /><br />whooooSugaryCynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15258481928434295350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7166601565505406023.post-79025861634498553102011-03-13T23:46:09.633-07:002011-03-13T23:46:09.633-07:00The picture above reminded me of this video:
http...The picture above reminded me of this video:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3tIERI-D4<br /><br />Americans, a vague term in itself, do get bad a rap (like being blind to other cultures) but it has some basis of truth.Franz Patrickhttp://franzpatrick.comnoreply@blogger.com