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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Buddy, buddy - WHAT A RIPOFF!
Message-ID: <4473@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 05:34:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 23 05:34:43 1985
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Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher)
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Summary: 

>Actually, Hollywood is quite insensitive and immoral in this regard.  
>...
>The sheer chutzpah of this attitude is so appalling that I hesitate to give
>money to any American production.  This sort of attitude has in history led to
>racism, slavery, Detroit gas guzzlers, and the White Man's burden.  The
>Japanese imitate to learn and improve, these guys imitate because they can't
>honestly understand that the WOGs are people too!  And their patronizing makes
>the product worse, because they can't see any room for improvement on their
>miserable product.

It's really not fair to single out Hollywood for this behavior.  Just about
any nation which makes movies for profit has a certain amount of this.  Italy
and Japan are especially notorious.  (The Japanese do not always learn and
improve, sometimes they just cop a quick yen or two.)  Hollywood almost always
"changes" its ripoffs, but the changes are usually for the worse.  It really
isn't at all like racism, slavery, or the White Man's burden.  It's a little
like gas guzzlers.  It's a quick way to make money without having original
ideas.  We're talking greed here, not arrogance, and America certainly hasn't
cornered the market on avarice.

>And besides, I'll always wonder, was the French version of "Blame It On Rio"
>perhaps a reasonably decent film?  Naaah. . .

I haven't seen the French version ("One Wild Moment"), as French comedies are
generally rather low on my "must see" list, but I've heard it's a rather 
charming lightweight movie, and a definite improvement over the American 
version.
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        			Peter Reiher
        			reiher@ucla-cs.arpa
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