Re: Why not? We liked Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain and Les Invasions Barbares.
DomA Send a noteboard - 27/01/2011 12:26:48 PM
Jean-Luc thought much the movie's humour often relied heavily on obscure Belgian (or occasionally European) references.
He's right we missed a level of humour (at least all those he explained we had missed), but I suspect foreigners just saw a more universal level to the movie where Belgian saw a more Belgium-centric "commentary" (much as happened with Les Invasions Barbares. There are full of Québec-centric elements in it that foreigners miss - eg: all the health system details it targets - but not distracted by the specific shots Arcand took at this and that they see the universal resonance of the movie's situations better than us)
Jean-Luc was also weirdly claiming Belgian humour doesn't export well, but we were quoting him back all the examples of Belgian humour we appreciate (from BD to stand up comics and so on) to show him how wrong he was on that!
He's right we missed a level of humour (at least all those he explained we had missed), but I suspect foreigners just saw a more universal level to the movie where Belgian saw a more Belgium-centric "commentary" (much as happened with Les Invasions Barbares. There are full of Québec-centric elements in it that foreigners miss - eg: all the health system details it targets - but not distracted by the specific shots Arcand took at this and that they see the universal resonance of the movie's situations better than us)
Jean-Luc was also weirdly claiming Belgian humour doesn't export well, but we were quoting him back all the examples of Belgian humour we appreciate (from BD to stand up comics and so on) to show him how wrong he was on that!
A few thoughts on my Classic challenge book. Well, books, as it turns out.
- 22/01/2011 11:48:21 PM
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This month is just making me hate classics.
- 23/01/2011 12:06:08 AM
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Aw. That's a shame.
- 23/01/2011 12:21:10 AM
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Re: Aw. That's a shame.
- 23/01/2011 12:55:44 PM
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Hrm... a high fantasy classic...
- 23/01/2011 01:15:05 PM
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Yes.
- 23/01/2011 01:17:18 PM
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Dunsany is good. And Grimm, but
- 23/01/2011 01:25:40 PM
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There's really only one high fantasy classic, no? Or two, if you count the Silm separately. *NM*
- 23/01/2011 01:35:03 PM
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Perhaps Gormenghast?
- 23/01/2011 01:58:50 PM
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H. Rider Haggard.
- 23/01/2011 01:24:01 PM
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You can't love all of the classics, but it's not like it's a genre of its own that you can dislike.
- 23/01/2011 12:32:01 AM
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The Swiss Family Robinson is hardly a "classic", unless by "classic" you mean "old".
- 23/01/2011 06:55:30 AM
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A lot of "classics" need proper context to be appreciated
- 23/01/2011 12:22:44 PM
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Well said.
- 23/01/2011 12:46:35 PM
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Re: Well said.
- 24/01/2011 02:33:10 AM
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That reminds me I need to get back to the Mémoires of Marguerite de Valois.
- 24/01/2011 10:17:17 PM
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Very true
- 23/01/2011 01:04:56 PM
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Speaking of Dumas...
- 24/01/2011 02:45:02 AM
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ooooh
- 24/01/2011 08:51:46 AM
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The Molière movie is called... wait for it...
- 24/01/2011 10:21:48 PM
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oooh
- 24/01/2011 10:24:19 PM
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Re: oooh
- 24/01/2011 10:29:23 PM
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Re: oooh
- 25/01/2011 01:15:39 AM
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I really should watch that movie.
- 25/01/2011 09:43:35 PM
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Re: I really should watch that movie.
- 25/01/2011 11:15:10 PM
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Why not? We liked Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain and Les Invasions Barbares. *NM*
- 26/01/2011 06:45:26 PM
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Re: Why not? We liked Le Déclin de l'Empire Américain and Les Invasions Barbares.
- 27/01/2011 12:26:48 PM
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Re: A few thoughts on my Classic challenge book. Well, books, as it turns out.
- 23/01/2011 06:25:50 AM
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The big problem with Dracula is that it's an epistolary novel.
- 23/01/2011 06:58:25 AM
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Yeah, agreed.
- 23/01/2011 09:46:57 AM
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But Frankenstein doesn't even have good writing to recommend it.
- 23/01/2011 10:09:58 AM
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Dracula is the book I hope to review (properly) today. I love it. So very much.
- 23/01/2011 10:08:34 AM
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The challenge is making me wish I hadn't already read Frankenstein
- 23/01/2011 07:38:49 AM
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Really?
- 23/01/2011 07:52:24 AM
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...
- 23/01/2011 09:08:03 AM
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Thank you. *NM*
- 23/01/2011 10:10:34 AM
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For, as usual, being my wonderful, divine self and bringing light to the world? *NM*
- 23/01/2011 10:12:30 AM
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Re: A few thoughts on my Classic challenge book. Well, books, as it turns out.
- 23/01/2011 08:53:01 AM
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I just read A Christmas Carol as well. It's very short, alright.
- 02/02/2011 08:46:16 PM
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