Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
by elvis70 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:38PM
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John Hughes watched it at the festival of Cannes in 1989, after this article (in French): https://www.bfmtv.com/people/3615-code-pere-noel-le-film-fra...
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Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
by dmix on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:43PM
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This has always been a great business idea. Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions then pitch them to Hollywood.
Also I find it amusing that Home Alone in France is titled "Mom, I missed the plane"
Re:Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
by southerntofu on Friday January 14, 2022 @07:21AM
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> Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions
That's the entire history of Hollywood and american music industry. Those businesses who wouldn't like us to share made their fortunes on entirely borrowed things from other cultures. Many of the great revered american singers copied note-for-note traditional african songs, for example.