Friday, 4 January 2008
What We Did On Our Holidays, i.e. Made A Film
posted @1:50 p.m. by Richard Kelly
This guest submission from TIM HEANEY shows the true list-maker's attention to detail - basically, Ten Movies Set In A Different Country to the Movie's Place of Origin. Pedants will quibble about the nation-state status of entries #9 and #10, but not me.
user: Tim Heaney
My favourite films from one country but set in another
1: Casablanca North American Film set in Morocco
2: Life of Brian British film set in Palestine
3: Aguirre, der zorn Grottes (Aguirre, Wrath of God) German film set in South America
4: Gallipoli Australian Film set in Turkey
5: Biruma no tategoto - 1956 (The Burmese Harp) Japanese film set in Burma
6: Breaking the Waves Danish film set in Scotland
7: Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) French Film set in Central America
8: Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo(The Good the Bad and the Ugly) Italian Film set in North America
9: Solyaris Russian Film set in Outer Space
10: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring New Zealand Film set in Middle Earth
Comments
Very creative list, Tim. I particularly like the last two and feel compelled to try and come up with an even more creative list...
Meanwhile, Richard may not be a pedant but I am: surely Life of Brian was set in Judea, Palestine being a later name for that region...?
Brian: "Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?"
Reg: "F**k off! We're the People's Front of Judea!"
Classic! (and of course you're right about Judea)
Language, Timothy!
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