shempmcgurk wrote: > I saw the movie today and thoroughly enjoyed it. > > What surprised me is that Pitt and the American actors only have supporting > roles. The real stars — and the ones who have most of the screen time — are > the German and French actors: Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, and the > excellent Christoph Waltz who is the main star of the movie. > > What ALSO surprised me is that the filmmakers allowed 80% of the dialogue to > be in either French or German, with English subtitles. American movie-goers > are notorious for hating sub-titles and success of a movie is often dependent > upon dialogue being conducted in English…and American English, preferrably. > Recall Texas governor Ma Ferguson's observation back in the '20s that "If > English was good enough for Jesus Christ it's good enough for me." > > English is the center of the universe for most Americans. > > Not so here. And I fully expected an English-speaking movie because in the > opening scene the German and French protagonists "switch" to English because, > as it was explained by the character, it was a language they could both > understand, causing me to think that this would set the stage for the entire > movie to be spoken in English, which didn't happen. > > In the silly and asinine "Scarface" by Brian DePalma such a "trick" was > employed when early on in the film the Al Pacino character says > "Hey, we must practise our English so from now on, no more Spanish". And then > the whole movie — of which 90% involved interactions between Latinos — was > implausably conducted entirely in English. > > Bravo to Tarantino et al for not falling into this trap.
Haven't seen it yet. I often don't go to an opening day movie and since I set my own schedule tend to go to weekday matinees to avoid the crowds on the weekends or evenings. But I braved the 5 PM showing of District 9 last week which wasn't that crowded though it was the top box office draw last week. I might see Inglourious tomorrow afternoon. District 9 was a hoot, definitely a great sci-fi film and we haven't see one of those in some time. I often rent foreign films and since my Hollywood Video account became "video rationing" instead of "all you can eat" I leave it for Blu-Ray rentals. I'll risk a $1 instead at the RedBox kiosk which has some surprises such as the two recent Pang Brother Asian films and one I rented last night which was an Argentine horror film with subtitles and was filmed on a budget of $5K. "36 Pasos" is probably too weird and gory for FFL'ers but was well acted the story had a good arc. Argentines are living in a world the US may soon find itself as there are only two classes: the rich and the poor. Interesting article by someone living there: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9628597/Lessons-from-Argentinas-economic-collapse ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
