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From: olivier@austin.ibm.com (Olivier Cremel)
Subject: Re: International Language.
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In article <1995Jan7.214953.26905@midway.uchicago.edu>, deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) writes:
> 
> I've never heard the Americans accused of dumping their films.  In
> fact, the amazing success of American films in Europe contiues *despite*
> various protectionist measures taken by the national governments
> (France in particular) and the EC.

When I was in France two months ago, I wanted to go see a movie. I went
to the local theater. It was showing eight movies. All American ones. Now
I wonder what are those protectionist measures, but they sure are not
working very well.

In fact, you have it backward. The American films are not having an amazing
success. They are the only one left to see. So I just went home. The number
of people going to theaters has steadily declined for years and is now a
fraction of what it is in the States. It's a pretty sad circle. Fewer French
movies, fewer movie-goers, and so on. It's a simple economic matter and there
is certainly the feeling that American movies are being dumped by the truckload
all over Europe.

European film industries are being killed one by one. No, wait a minute,
there is one which is gaining ground these days, it's the ... British one.
How convenient that they speak English and can unload some movies
on the unsuspecting xenophobic American.

We've come to the point that a director like Luc Besson (of Nikita's fame)
is now shooting in English and then dubbing in French !

-- 
Olivier.
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