All mimes are French. Don't you know anything?
Not too much, I'll admit. But mimes don't talk! Even knowing a priori that they're French, how would the Quebec government confirm that?
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Hayden - Mar 13, 2008 10:48:22 am PDT #4329 of 10000
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Tom Scola - Mar 13, 2008 10:50:20 am PDT #4330 of 10000
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If a Quebecois mime weren't French, would he have to perform his act a second time in French?
megan walker - Mar 13, 2008 10:59:33 am PDT #4331 of 10000
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If a Quebecois mime weren't French, would he have to perform his act a second time in French?
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Scrappy - Mar 13, 2008 11:10:03 am PDT #4332 of 10000
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If a Quebecois mime weren't French, would he have to perform his act a second time in French?
Yes. It's exactly the same act, but he does it with contempt for the audience.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2008 11:27:44 am PDT #4333 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think he needs to perform it the first time in French, and the second time, the English time, can be no longer or bigger than the first.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 13, 2008 11:57:43 am PDT #4334 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yes. It's exactly the same act, but he does it with contempt for the audience.
Really, don't all mimes do that anyway?
megan walker - Mar 13, 2008 12:42:57 pm PDT #4335 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Has anybody heard anything about Married Life?
It has Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson, but I've never heard of it. And it's playing at my local theater this weekend.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 13, 2008 12:55:56 pm PDT #4336 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I haven't heard a review, but it's the period piece about a potentially murderous unfaithful husband with Pierce Brosnan as the friend that he confides in. Looked well-made from the trailer I saw.
Vonnie K - Mar 13, 2008 12:57:05 pm PDT #4337 of 10000
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Has anybody heard anything about Married Life?
I read a decent review about it at E Weekly. Rachel McAdams plays a young WWII widow Cooper falls in love with or some such.
The only French Quebecois film director other than Arcand I can think of is Francois Girard (who did Red Violin and the film about Glenn Gould, both of them in English incidentally.) And I think I watched a Lauzon film back then (err, probably Leolo -- the one about the kid with the overactive imagination.) And there is that guy who made that wonderful film about a marriage of convenience with Genevieve Bujold (which is like a much less spastic and lower-key -- and vastly superior -- version of Green Card) called Les Noces de Papier... err, Michel Brault, according to IMDb. Not exactly a household name, even talking as someone who had lived in Montreal for several years.
Sue - Mar 13, 2008 4:16:23 pm PDT #4338 of 10000
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OMG, I forgot Claude Jutra.
Mimes are France French. The Quebecois would not put up with any of that striped shirt mime crap.
Corwood, you've got a lot to learn about the two solitudes. Unfortunately, it's taken up a fair amount of air time Canadian politics.