[net.movies] Foreign films

akhanna@bbncc5.UUCP (Atul C. Khanna) (09/25/85)

In article <1202@mtgzz.UUCP> ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) writes:
>> As reported in the Boston Globe today, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" has just
>> passed "La Cage aux Folles" as the highest grossing foreign film in the US.
>> To use the logic of some people on the net, if 20,000,000 dollars like this
>> movie, it can't be ALL bad. :-)
>
>Since films like GANDHI (and the "Mad Max" films) have grossed a *lot* more
>than $20 million, I presume that the Boston Globe means "foreign-language
>film," rather than "foreign film."  (That's what the Academy Award
>classification is, by the way, so that films made in Great Britain, Australia
>et al are in competition with American films, rather than Continental European
>films, Asian films, etc.)
>
>					Evelyn C. Leeper
>					...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl

Except that "The Gods Must be Crazy" is in English.
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ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (09/29/85)

> As reported in the Boston Globe today, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" has just
> passed "La Cage aux Folles" as the highest grossing foreign film in the US.
> To use the logic of some people on the net, if 20,000,000 dollars like this
> movie, it can't be ALL bad. :-)

Since films like GANDHI (and the "Mad Max" films) have grossed a *lot* more
than $20 million, I presume that the Boston Globe means "foreign-language
film," rather than "foreign film."  (That's what the Academy Award
classification is, by the way, so that films made in Great Britain, Australia
et al are in competition with American films, rather than Continental European
films, Asian films, etc.)

					Evelyn C. Leeper
					...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl