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NOT FRENCH ENOUGH FOR FRANCE?


[+] ballot by Truthseeker013
created Thu Dec 23, 04

I tried to post this one a while back, but I hit Enter at the wrong time, and I blew up half the computers in Hungary. (Problem is, they were the half that WERE working.) Whatever, here goes again.

About a month ago, I read a story on Yahoo! News, about a new movie that's been released, called "The Very Long Engagement" (can't remember the French title, sorry). This movie was made in France, with a French cast and crew by a French director, but it's being denied the right to stand for any French film awards, because the French government organization that decides on such things says, as my header suggested, that the movie was "not French enough", because the movie was released by 20th Century Fox first. But I have to wonder- is this a half-valid point, or is this just a case of the French hating America so much that they're willing to cut off their own noses to spite their faces?

Half-valid (explain)
Them French folk plumb HATES themselves! (explain)

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COMMENTS:
I got a good chuckle out of this story. I also believe, from personal experience, that the French DO hate themselves on some level. Come on, no one can be so snooty all the live-long day!
by Truthseeker013 on Thu Dec 23, 04 7:46pm [+]

Okay, that's ridiculous, not French enough??
by aya on Fri Dec 24, 04 12:48am [+]

Yes, it's ridiculous.
The French consider a film French if it has french production and it his shot in France, not if it has something valuable to add to french culture.
On the other hand, i consider positive that they do something to protect their culture against anglo-saxonic uniformization.
Of course this is a losing battle, because there is not a french touch in movie directing.
What they achieve out of this is to make 120 movies/year, spoken in French.
If you look carefully, movies by Woody Allen, David Lynch and others have been co-produced by Canal+ (French media group) to gain advantage in distribution in Europe.
by Freedom_Fries on Fri Dec 24, 04 3:07am [+]

Yeah, denying French actors and French crew the right to win French awards does a lot to hurt Americans.
by thc2883 on Fri Dec 24, 04 7:08am [+]

I guess it's tit for tat!
by mojo on Fri Dec 24, 04 7:29am [+]

Tell me about it, thc!
by Truthseeker013 on Fri Dec 24, 04 1:46pm [+]

I've met a number of pretentious , rude French people. ces' le vie.
by maxxman on Thu Jan 13, 05 8:18pm [+]

The French don't just hate Americans, they hate everybody.
by weebles48 on Thu Jul 14, 05 8:29am [+]

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