Post by JenoWhatIMean on Jan 11, 2006 0:19:26 GMT 8
Never was aware of the "euro-pudding" genre until you started describing it Virg...but I see more and more what you're talking about. They kind of did that with Les Mis, didn't they...with their "thingyney France" as one critic described it...(just watch, that will come out as thingyney) But I definitely see what everyone is talking about. Very sad indeed...because a film can be firmly about it's own culture and we can still relate to its universality...that's the whole point about reading stories of "foreign lands"! I'm always amazed at people who get fixated on the idea that no one will be able to "relate" to a main character if they're different than oneself. Different gender, different age, different nationality, different color, different time/place. If that was true, no child would ever read a fairy tale!!! Can you imagine a movie mogul presented with the story premise...Lucy walks through the back of a wardrobe and meets a fawn...oh wait, they did...and they made a movie about it! gasp! Oh, but that's different...it's a well established children's classic. But otherwise, the response would be "no american child knows what a wardrobe is, and no one will be able to relate to a half goat, half person.... what demographic are we trying to appeal to? 12 year old female interior designers? Boys who fool around with farm animals?" (sorry ;-)
But, I should put my money where my mouth is and at least go out and rent a truly foreign film instead of gazing at them at the video store and saying that's probably a good movie I should rent that sometime, and then walk over to the mainstream American blockbuster shelf and pick up one of those. Guilty.
But, I should put my money where my mouth is and at least go out and rent a truly foreign film instead of gazing at them at the video store and saying that's probably a good movie I should rent that sometime, and then walk over to the mainstream American blockbuster shelf and pick up one of those. Guilty.
