Be Cool

So I went to see Be Cool yesterday. I'm not sure anymore how far behind we are on movies here, but I guess I don't really care. :) I was highly entertained to see this movie with a bunch of non-Americans. I loved the movie and found it utterly hilarious, but I was the only one laughing at much of the dialogue.

Is our humour so American as to lose other audiences? Well, the movie contained a lot of those, "This isn't the movies, man!" comments which I always find a bit funny. But one of the funniest characters was Vince Vaughn (who is awesome... in every conceivable way) who spent the duration of the movie pretending to "be black." Now, the whole race theme is sort of overdone in the States, but it was still funny as all get out. No one in the theatre got it. I don't think they know what the difference is in accent or anything. It's all just American to them. Sometimes people have a Southern accent, sometimes the Boston accent, sometimes the ghetto accent. Also, they don't have the music business that was a central humour point.

Did they even get that when music starts and Uma Thurman and John Travolta are on the same set, they will be dancing? Also, the stereotype of that ghetto-fied black America was poked fun at when the members of a rap group pull into a suburban neighborhood in huge, shiny black H2's with the spinning rims and blaring music. That's just American to them!

I just sat back and realised I should laugh to myself so as not to be the laughing freak who goes by herself to movies. Culture does make a difference, who knew? I still highly recommend this movie -- it's not earthshattering or anything, but it's super funny.