"Fake" foreign films.

[maggrwaggr]

Okay, a writer friend of mine is trying to come up with other films other than "Chocolat" which we call "Fake" foreign films. I.E. they're 100% artificial confections which are trying really hard to have the taste of a "foreign" film.

I'm sure there are others besides "Chocolat" but I'm having trouble thinking of any off the top of my head. So I turn to DU!

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. The English Patient

fake foreign film if I ever saw one.

Mulan, fake anime.

[dwckabal]

2. Speaking of Chocolat

I absolutely LOVED the book, and absolutely HATED the movie. The movie killed the whole point of the book. If you haven't read it, do so, and I think you'll agree.

[luckyluke]

3. I felt that about Y Tu Mama Tambien

It is a very good film no doubt, but it seemed designed for an American audience rather than a Mexican one. -ll

[noiretextatique]

4. it's the fake "remakes" that bug me the most

like the remade version of "la femme nikita" with bridget fonda.

[buddhamama]

5. excellent movie

so don't bad mouth it Waterland. when first released it was 'played' up as a foreign film..German i think.

[zekeson]

6. Le Divorce

I actually found it pleasant enough to watch, but it really tried to convince you that it was a foreign film. It got a little schizophrenic at times, trying to be box office and foreign.

[damnraddem]

7. The British dossier on Iraqi WMDs.

Not a film itself, no; but it's getting a bit of screen time now.

[vi5]

8. Not for nothing but in the big scheme of American Pop Culture...

I would rather someone watch Chocolat than American Pie 3. Honestly. I'm not going to claim to like the "fake" foreign films you talk about, or that I can't appreciate a dumb idiotic comedy. But I honestly don't see any harm in a movie aspiring to be something classy and foreign as oppossed to being the 8,000,000,000th movie to rip off the same dumb animal house jokes for the 90 millionth time.

I know what you are saying but I'd rather people be encouraged to watch something that might actually give their attention spans some excercise

[maggrwaggr]

9. Well of course I'd rather watch Chocolate than AP 2

he's just looking for other examples

[rucky]

10. Shakespeare In Love

Ya know there really aren't that many talented british actors out there who could play Gwenyth's role...

Same goes for:
Tom Cruise - Far & Away
Chris O'Donnell - Circle of Friends

all "Foreign" films (filmed overseas and/or foreign director) with the token American actor doing a bad accent.

[bif]

11. Milagro Beanfield War

A Robert Redford movie.

[DrWeird]

12. The Ring

When I saw the boy with the umbrella looking up at his absent father in the rain I thought,"yep, this must be a remake of a japanese original." Not that it's not a good movie.