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> “She goes, ‘I don’t know the (bleepin’) song!’” That should have been a clue to them that the English actress spoke for most of the World. The whole basebal

> “She goes, ‘I don’t know the (bleepin’) song!’” That should have been a clue to them that the English actress spoke for most of the World. The whole baseball scene was funny but utterly alien and confusing to me. What was parody and what was gameplay? Imagine a comedy finale set in a cricket match. Over a billion people have some familiarity with the rules but it probably still wouldn't be a good idea.

conradfr 8y ago
As a (French) kid I fell of the couch laughing during the umpire scene, and to this day I still don't know the rules about strikes.
deadmetheny 8y ago
>Imagine a comedy finale set in a cricket match. Over a billion people have some familiarity with the rules but it probably still wouldn't be a good idea. It'd be a great idea if it was being made in a country for people who have familiarity with the rules. Not everything has to, or even should be, intended for a global audience.
klodolph 8y ago
Hollywood makes its biggest movies today by those rules—strip everything out that doesn’t resonate with a global audience—and the results are pretty bland. It’s okay to have a scene in Paris but don’t make it too French, just show a Bistro and some landmark like the Louvre or Notre Dame and that’s enough. It’s okay to make a movie about war but only if it’s World War II and the Nazis should be handsome, well-dressed, and unrepentantly evil. Ideally you should include a scene in China but by god don’t actually cast an Asian actor in a leading role. Even though these rules make a lot of money for big Hollywood studios (over $18 billion just for MCU movies alone) it would be a sad, dark place if those were all the movies we had.
empath75 8y ago
why not -- Austin Powers has a sumo scene, and that's even less popular than baseball is.
danso 8y ago
As someone who has never watched a pro baseball game in its entirety, I think why the scene works so well is that it transcends baseball. Even if you don't know the conventions, Leslie Nielsen's character is familiar enough to that point in the movie that you know whatever he's doing is him going overboard and being slow on the uptake.

conradfr 8y ago

As a (French) kid I fell of the couch laughing during the umpire scene, and to this day I still don't know the rules about strikes.

deadmetheny 8y ago

>Imagine a comedy finale set in a cricket match. Over a billion people have some familiarity with the rules but it probably still wouldn't be a good idea. It'd be a great idea if it was being made in a country for people who have familiarity with the rules. Not everything has to, or even should be, intended for a global audience.

klodolph 8y ago

Hollywood makes its biggest movies today by those rules—strip everything out that doesn’t resonate with a global audience—and the results are pretty bland. It’s okay to have a scene in Paris but don’t make it too French, just show a Bistro and some landmark like the Louvre or Notre Dame and that’s enough. It’s okay to make a movie about war but only if it’s World War II and the Nazis should be handsome, well-dressed, and unrepentantly evil. Ideally you should include a scene in China but by god don’t actually cast an Asian actor in a leading role. Even though these rules make a lot of money for big Hollywood studios (over $18 billion just for MCU movies alone) it would be a sad, dark place if those were all the movies we had.

empath75 8y ago

why not -- Austin Powers has a sumo scene, and that's even less popular than baseball is.

danso 8y ago

As someone who has never watched a pro baseball game in its entirety, I think why the scene works so well is that it transcends baseball. Even if you don't know the conventions, Leslie Nielsen's character is familiar enough to that point in the movie that you know whatever he's doing is him going overboard and being slow on the uptake.