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jp2
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response 300 of 360:
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Jun 11 21:21 UTC 2002 |
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clees
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response 301 of 360:
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Jun 11 21:38 UTC 2002 |
Not intifada, you mean fatwa.
I have seen Bollywood movies when I was in India.
One main chracteristic is their mass dance sequences. Very well
choreographed and very similar to all those Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire
type of movies.
Stories are pretty bleak and meager, like the worst US flicks.
But when you are in a mega, mega, mega cinema with birdies flying under
the domed roof among 1,500 Indians it's pretty nice to experience.
As for the movies tehmselves: Indian society is pretty strict and
conservative. Not much controversy in cinema, not when so many viewers
are poorly educated. So, the movies rarely take position against the
caste system. Relationships in which both sexes have choice of partner
in a country with so many pre-arranged marriages... I don't think so,
or if at all, both of the lovers will come to an untimely end.
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jp2
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Jun 11 21:40 UTC 2002 |
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sarkhel
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response 303 of 360:
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Jun 12 05:14 UTC 2002 |
re 297 (mynx): Hollywood is giving the kids , ideas for killing the fellow
students at school/neighbour thro various animated films. It gives the child
brains wrong impressions about the world outside US.
As per oscar is concerned, the countries having market interest (of US) soon
not only get an nomination but also get a winning prize. You may find the same
at Miss Universe/World etc. a sudden flow of unniers from thirld world
countries in general and India in particular.
God saves the market hungry people
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sarkhel
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response 304 of 360:
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Jun 12 05:17 UTC 2002 |
unniners/winners
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jaklumen
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response 305 of 360:
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Jun 12 07:34 UTC 2002 |
No, sarkhel, get it through your thick head. If there are wrong
impressions about the world outside the US, it's not Hollywood alone--
it's the mass media (which is *not* Hollywood, although news is
marketed), it's our own cultural bias, and it's your own damn cultural
bias, too.
Geez.
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mynxcat
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response 306 of 360:
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Jun 12 13:33 UTC 2002 |
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bhelliom
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response 307 of 360:
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Jun 12 14:35 UTC 2002 |
Sarkhel, I ought to introduce you to my father. you'd get along
famously with him.
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clees
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response 308 of 360:
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Jun 12 22:00 UTC 2002 |
eehhhmmm, mynxcat, I am not certain you are right on that point.
Bollywood produces over 800 movies a year. On the other hand I don't
know how many movies Hollywood produces on a yearly basis. I mean
movies including box office and movies that never reach anything else
but video shops - and I don't mean porn flicks - btw, another huge
market.
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jmsaul
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response 309 of 360:
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Jun 12 22:01 UTC 2002 |
I wonder. A lot of movies in the US are straight-to-cable or
straight-to-video too.
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scg
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response 310 of 360:
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Jun 13 00:21 UTC 2002 |
The Oscars are awarded by the Motion Picture Academy of America. Thre
requirements for elligibility, if I remember correctly, include that the film
has to have been shown in Los Angeles. They've got a couple of separate
categories for foreign films, and foreign films sometimes win the more
mainstream awards, but it's pretty much an awards program for the American
movie industry. That most Oscar winning movies are American really says more
about the focus of the Academy that awards the Oscars than it does about the
relative quality of American movies vs. movies made elsewhere.
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bhelliom
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response 311 of 360:
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Jun 13 17:26 UTC 2002 |
I believe this is why Europe has it's own similar awards racket. At
least the UK does.
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jp2
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response 312 of 360:
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Jun 13 17:27 UTC 2002 |
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jaklumen
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response 313 of 360:
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Jun 13 19:47 UTC 2002 |
I believe that would be a batl'eth.
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clees
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response 314 of 360:
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Jun 13 21:51 UTC 2002 |
European Awards:
Golden Palm - Cannes
Bear - Berlin
Lion (I believe) Rotterdam
Golden Calf (haefer?) in Netherlands for Dutch movies
there are more
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bhelliom
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response 315 of 360:
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Jun 14 13:17 UTC 2002 |
See, told you so. <beams>
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clees
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response 316 of 360:
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Jun 14 22:57 UTC 2002 |
Beam on, baby!
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sarkhel
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response 317 of 360:
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Jun 15 21:13 UTC 2002 |
re307 It will be my great honour to be introduced with your father.Kindly tell
how can I get in touch with him.
I use yahoo msngr.
There is no doubt that hollywood produces highest no.of moovies, follows by
Bollywood.The quality of moovies or the type of Bollywood, as mentioned by
mynx,is mostly family oriented.This because of the Indian social structure
and values.Still Indians like to stay in a joint family and donot like divorce
etc.So they like to see moovies contain family values.However like Hollywood,
all the moovies of Bollywood are not upto the mark.But to enjoy Indian moovies
you have to keep the joint family concept in mind.
I do have another request to mynx and captain, please avoid any personal
attack and avoid using unperliamentory words like "thick headed"etc. Let us
not be like a frog in a well, let us all try to be a frog of the ocean.
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jaklumen
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response 318 of 360:
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Jun 16 02:49 UTC 2002 |
Pass me another A&W root beer-- sometimes, it's good to be thick-
headed.
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mynxcat
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response 319 of 360:
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Jun 16 03:02 UTC 2002 |
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sarkhel
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response 320 of 360:
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Jun 16 20:31 UTC 2002 |
Its a phrase representing narrow minded people by "frog in the well".Why do
you fear death? Its an another form of life.A life after a life.
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slynne
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response 321 of 360:
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Jun 16 20:42 UTC 2002 |
Yeah but maybe it wont be a better life. Maybe that life after a life
will suck...kind of like how being a frog in a ocean would suck.
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sarkhel
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response 322 of 360:
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Jun 16 20:48 UTC 2002 |
Its difficult to say in blind that a frog will collapsed in an ocean.It may
well possible that they adopt the change.
Regarding life after this life, let us meet after this life, hold your hands
with mine and talk about it sitting on a river bed in a full moon night.
hushhhhhh...........
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mynxcat
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response 323 of 360:
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Jun 16 22:46 UTC 2002 |
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jmsaul
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response 324 of 360:
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Jun 17 01:34 UTC 2002 |
Re #322: Adapt to salt water? We'd know if they could do that already.
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