Fwd: Re: antw.re: everyone's gone to the movies

[David Morris]

I think Clement's reply didn'y make it to the list because his P-list 
address is incorrect, so here it is:

>From: Clément Levy <cl.levy at free.fr>
>Reply-To: cl.levy at free.fr
>To: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (lorentzen-nicklaus), pynchon- at free.fr,  
>  l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: antw.re: everyone's gone to the movies
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:33:47 +0100
>
>Hi there!
> >  ps: another cinema story, if you like ... the one time i realized the
> > huge
> >  differences between german and american feeling-culture 
>("affektkultur")
> > most
> >  was back in naughty-six when my wife and i were for honeymoon in nyc 
>...
> > having
> >  had walked brooklyn and manhattan for about 9 hours, as food some 
>snacks
> > and a
> >  couple of beers, we came to lincoln center where they showed a woody
> > allen
> >  comedy (probably "bullets over broadway"). "hey, let's go for a funny
> > movie!"
> >  i said to my wife and in we went. the cinema smelled like a perfum 
>shop,
> >  and people were dressed as if invited for the academy awards or
> > something.
> >  with jewelry and such. it was a saturday evening in may. to say that
> >  people had been waiting for us two tall german street-wear-wearing and
> >
> >  beer-smelling tourists would mean an exaggeration... the movie was
> > partly
> >  really funny and so - people in germany, no matter what class, they do
> > this in
> >  movie-houses! - we laughed. & laughed. and laughed. the others didn't,
> >  though. you know, the social frame would have allowed a single "haha" 
>or
> > "hö",
> >  perhaps even two "hihihi" after another... yet certainly not this
> > uncivilized
> >  horse-laughter! folks sitting near to us freezed, keeping their breath
> > short,
> >  cause any moment the teutonic laughter-beast could raise its ugly head
> > again...
> >  now, would can you do? since we had paid and did not do anything 
>against
> > the
> >  law (or are there "anti-public-laughter-laws" in new york?), we of
> > course kept
> >  our seats and with the minutes us continental misfits came to laugh not
> > only
> >  about the movie but also about the situation itself. guess we kinda
> > spoiled
> >  those people's saturday night amusement... you should have seen the
> > looks when
> >  my wife & i left after the show. "these german tourists...they really
> > lack
> >  manners ..."
> >
> >  pps: there's btw also a certain seinfeld episode ... "oh jerry, how
> > could you
> >  do this during 'schindler's list'?!"
> >
>Your story is really funny.
>I guess we European consider Allen more as a director for comic films than
>as an intellectual, although he might be both. I heard that his films have
>fast no public in the USA. So if New Yorkers look at his films as
>philosophic works or so, they may not laugh at all.
>Das Todlachen ist aber ein Schatz auf dem Erde, nicht ? French are very
>keen on "fou rire", and cinema, even Woody Allen still means entertainment
>(for this reason, I prefer Mulholland Drive which is aswell a post-
>modernist work and a kind of thriller,-- and we should be careful and not
>think that this film is good because it's been produced by Frenchies, they
>make money and show off, like Jean-Marie Messier, who says everywhere that
>his company produced Lynch's MD so that we forget that he also produces
>junk music and junk TV and junk movies everywhere: this is called Vivendi-
>Universal).
>Do you remember Pulp Fiction by Tarantino in wich there's a scene where the
>guy played by John Travolta tells how cinema theaters are different in
>Europe (he calls these differences "little differences", and in Amsterdam
>you can drink beers watchin' a movie, and in glass cups, not paper")...
>Well, thanks for your story. Please excuse my errors in english.
>Babaille.
>Clément




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