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For reference, I’m American but lived in Paris for awhile. I wouldn’t say The French Dispatch is indicative of American views of France, more a very specific, B
by keiferski 4y ago
For reference, I’m American but lived in Paris for awhile. I wouldn’t say The French Dispatch is indicative of American views of France, more a very specific, Brooklyn-based, literary industry one. Which is also what The New Yorker is. A movie like Amélie is probably more in line with the American fantasy version of France.
- xwolfi 4y agoOh I see, I guess us French are very heavily exposed to the NYC mirror ourselves so for us that's "american" when for you there s a clear distinction with how a North Carolinian or a Californian would dream up a French fantasy? Or social classes would fantasise differently ? I guess it s not too deeply explored, how a bias towards France develop across different layers of foreigners ahah But it s obvious the reverse is true: coming from Normandy my family accepted Iraq a lot more than the rest of France and felt even more betrayed when it turned out to be a lie for instance. Sadly the truth is more mundane than all those fantasies: we have an approximately similar distribution of morons, fascist, religious, generous, competent, savant and ignorant people and I guess bar historical deviations we're pretty much the same. I live in China myself and I cant really find a structural difference in people themselves.
- keiferski 4y agoThe media industry in NYC (and LA) is so dominant as compared to the rest of the country, so when viewed from abroad, the NYC/LA opinion ends up being “the American opinion.”