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What I think is amazing about Americans is that they need to make films about them being heroes or changing the course of history and taking credit away from Britain for example making out they changed the course of WW2 by finding the Enigma codes. Films that star people like Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis making them out to be heroes yet both are too cowardly to cross the Atlantic because they might get hurt.
There is a country however, an island off Northern Europe, which doesn't need to pretend by making films. All we get upset about are petrol prices.
There is a country however, an island off Northern Europe, which doesn't need to pretend by making films. All we get upset about are petrol prices.
what prompted your jingoistic outburst for one, hollywood has been making fantasy films for decades and the line between truth and fiction for them is like 'the truth getting in the way of a good story' for our press. I doubt Stallone or Willis actually said "I'm scared to fly" more like their agents worrying about their cash cows coming a cropper. I've met plenty of Americans who have flown since the 11th and know plenty of Brits who are understandably worried about doing the same. I thought you were generalising and being a bit insensitive for no apparent need
And does anyone really think that Hollywood is going to turn out a film which doesn't attract the maximum American audience ?
Massaging the truth in favour of America and the all-American hero is the road to box-office success.
What a pity CART is so blind to this, by the way, because with so few American drivers it's bound to die.
Face it, jingoism is universal.
Massaging the truth in favour of America and the all-American hero is the road to box-office success.
What a pity CART is so blind to this, by the way, because with so few American drivers it's bound to die.
Face it, jingoism is universal.
Dambusters is rather a good example of British propaganda. The project involved some clever ideas, but the actual raid was of no strategic importance at all. A lot of British air crews were killed, and the main victims of the raid were German civilians. The raid served as useful propaganda and nothing much else.
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Not all the crews were British.
Indeed, another wonderful example of American daring, with Sargeant Bruce Willis on the ground, recovering nuclear secrets from the dastardly Germans before being picked up by his former enemy in a love triangle in a touch-and-go landing in a Flying Fortress, which the RAF were too scared to do, and a cameo appearance as a Southern Slave Dog by "Nigger" the labrador. Oh, and the bouncing bomb developed by Barnes-Chuck-Wallis.
Or something like that...
Whinging about US films not giving us poor Brits our due makes us look as bad as the French! There is an easy answer - develop a British film industry. Then we could make films about how we landed the first man on the moon (Neil Hamstrong, from Durham), made the first powered heaver than air flight (the Wraught brothers, from Leeds) and invented the electric light bulb (Thomas Addyson, from Hastings).
Oh yeah, if you really want to plumb the depths of American glory-grabbing, ask any of them the name of the pilot who made the first non-stop Atlantic crossing. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred they will tell you Charles Lindbergh!! They have never heard of Alcock and Brown and will look amazed when you tell them!
Oh yeah, if you really want to plumb the depths of American glory-grabbing, ask any of them the name of the pilot who made the first non-stop Atlantic crossing. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred they will tell you Charles Lindbergh!! They have never heard of Alcock and Brown and will look amazed when you tell them!
Somehow, I think a better topic would be "THE FRENCH". There is nothing wrong with the UK (they brought us Alec Guiness, Monthy Python, the XKE and civilized half the world) or the USA (man on the moon, etc.). The French are weird geeks that can't get along with anyone! 
Stop griping about the USA!
Stop griping about the USA!
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