Out of curiosity what televisual treats have the French given the world?Originally posted by C5
Star Trek being widely known as "the stupid american series with the pointy eared guy only a geek will watch",
Out of curiosity what televisual treats have the French given the world?Originally posted by C5
Star Trek being widely known as "the stupid american series with the pointy eared guy only a geek will watch",
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Do I sense sarcasm here ?Originally posted by JonA
Out of curiosity what televisual treats have the French given the world?
Usually, French TV series are dull policier series (lots and lots of them), or sit-coms plagiarized from their US counterparts. None of them go very far out of the country, thankfully.
Maybe the most known French series was Highlander : the series, a French-Canadian coproduction.
To my knowledge, anyway.
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It looks like sarcasm, tastes like sarcasm ...Originally posted by JonA
Out of curiosity what televisual treats have the French given the world?
Actually, I think at least one of Disney's movies was made by a French team of tooners-or-whatever-is-the-real-name-for-it. Does that count? I guess not, since you asked for televisual ... but it made it on DVD, so you can see it on TV ! Hah!
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Lost in southern hell.. I mean Texas..
May your worlds be at peace. Never assume, that the pointy eared first officer is Vulcan.
well at least you're not persecuted for being a gun owner.Lost in southern hell.. I mean Texas..
And for France and ST, well I think that SW is really big in France and I think the view most Frenchmen have about ST comes from the SW/ST rivalery.
Nothing like a 37-year old male virgin with a Darth Vader T-shirt that's way too small for his belly , questionable peronal hygiene, and of course the ungodly acne face calling Star Trek "a show for geeks"
Man I love my job
Who cares about guns, I am a sword owner..
May your worlds be at peace. Never assume, that the pointy eared first officer is Vulcan.
You have packs of Attention Defecit Disorder kids roaming the streets?!Originally posted by Liz Not Beth
Quite a few ADD groups,
Never a dull moment, I'd wager.
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Yes, Highlander: The Series was produced by Gaumont Television.Originally posted by C5
Maybe the most known French series was Highlander : the series, a French-Canadian coproduction. To my knowledge, anyway.
But, it was based on a film written by an American
Hey i live close by to yaOriginally posted by Silverthorne
Who cares about guns, I am a sword owner..
Ah, but there are some American movies who are based on movies written by French too (True Lies or Three men and a baby come to mind). So we're on par nowOriginally posted by Ezri's Toy
Yes, Highlander: The Series was produced by Gaumont Television.
But, it was based on a film written by an American
I didn't know Thierry la Fronde had been translated. Maybe this is the case for other French series which didn't become famous though.Originally posted by Owen E Oulton
I remember watching a French show on CBC (dubbed into English) called Thierry la Fronde, about a French Robin Hood-type outlaw who used a sling, way back in the 1960's.
Do you have any examples ? I'd be interested to know.Besides Highlander, there have been a number of other Canada/France co-productions, both English-language and French-language.
Uh oh... now we're off topic, are we ?
"The main difference between Trekkies and Manchester United fans is that Trekkies never trashed a train carriage. So why are the Trekkies the social outcasts?"
Terry Pratchett
True enough, since Star Trek was first aired in France around 1985, just in the wake of the Star Wars boom, and it was on a channel who recycled the worst american series it could find (Star Trek must have slipped through somehow). Then, most people started to compare both shows and Star Trek got the worst of it(understandably, since it also had a very bad translation who sometimes made episodes quite incomprehensible).Originally posted by Snake_Plissken
And for France and ST, well I think that SW is really big in France and I think the view most Frenchmen have about ST comes from the SW/ST rivalery.
Nothing like a 37-year old male virgin with a Darth Vader T-shirt that's way too small for his belly , questionable peronal hygiene, and of course the ungodly acne face calling Star Trek "a show for geeks"
BTW, I love your description of the geek SW fan (though I guess some ST fans can also fit that description, provided you replace the Darth Vader T shirt with an Khan one )
Ok, now I'll try to stop hijacking this thread.
"The main difference between Trekkies and Manchester United fans is that Trekkies never trashed a train carriage. So why are the Trekkies the social outcasts?"
Terry Pratchett
Here in Georgia, USA, there seem to be plenty of Trekkers and RPG'ers. Though in my small town, that number goes down as the college kids leave for the summer. But that still leaves about 6 or so RPGers, and a couple times that Trekkers, of course, some of them are closet Trekkers, known only to other Trekkers and not to the public.
And I have swords and guns..... buwahahaha!!!
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