Valerian a flop? let me help you. french humor isn’t funny, it’s stupid. french drama isn’t dramatic it’s pathetic. french action isn’t tense, it’s boring. I had this arguments with a popular french art historian who was offended why we only sold remakes of french films in america. There is a deep effeminacy in french psychology that is simply impossible to see upon self reflection. one has to have the mind of a woman to find any interest in french cinema. If you study french plays (I have a bit) you understand where the tradition comes from. It’s like shakespeare and sherlock holmes in the english. And it has been a few decades since I studied this subject and understood the french arts, but I remember it well enough to say that french culture was too much affected by the farce, the plays, the operas and in particular the costumery, and all this nonsense lives on today in french like Henry V and MacBeth live on today in the english speaking world. Not because we watch them. But because everything we watch is an imitation of them.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 19:42:00 UTC
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