标题: US Films and Audiences Abroad [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-17-2014 17:33 标题: US Films and Audiences Abroad 本帖最后由 choi 于 1-17-2014 17:37 编辑
Jeffrey Fleishman, From 'Titanic' with Buddhist monks to Spielberg in Saudi Arabia; Perspective: A foreign correspondent sees US films with audiences abroad — 'Eyes Wide Shut' in Italy, 'Cloverfield' in Iraq — and considers their effects. Los Angeles Times, Jan 17, 2014 (For Sunday newspaper, Jan 19; available now). www.latimes.com/entertainment/mo ... iraq-italy-20140119,0,6127849.story
Quote:
"Once again I was struck, as I had been time and again living abroad as a foreign correspondent, by the power that an American film has on the global imagination.
"Hollywood's foreign box office, which increasingly drives the business, reached $23.9 billion in 2012, or about 69% of all international ticket sales
Note:
(a) Please read only the first four, and the last, paragraphs--about a Tibetan audience, in Dharamsala, India. The rest is disorganized and sentimental.
(b) "In a canvas tent in the Himalayan foothills, where winter breaths drifted in the twilight, Tibetan monks, their feet dangling from benches, watched a pirated copy of 'Titanic.' The diminutive men, camped along a rutted road leading to the Dalai Lama's residence in exile near Dharamsala, India, did not understand what Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were saying. But they knew the sleek black steel and tinkling jewelry were sailing toward doom. * * * and their small, mystical world quieted as the ocean liner pitched and descended spear-like into the icy depths."
(i) Dharamsala
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharamsala
(in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh; section 2 Etymology)
(ii) sleek black steel = Titanic the ship
(iii) tinkle (vi, vt; of imitative origin): "to make sounds like the sounds of a small bell" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinkle
= jingle
(iv) pitch (vi; Middle English pichen to thrust, drive, fix firmly, probably from Old English *piccan, from Vulgar Latin *piccare — more at PIKE):
"1b(1) of a ship : to have the bow alternately plunge precipitately and rise abruptly (2) of an aircraft, missile, or spacecraft : to turn about a lateral axis so that the forward end rises or falls in relation to the after end
* * *
5a : to throw a ball to a batter" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch
* Aircraft principal axes
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_principal_axes
(diagram and animations)