1984
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Mark Dunder
Mongoose
That's a kick. A future date that came and went, and nearly is true.
Big Brother is really watching you!
Big Brother is really watching you!
darth_azabrush
Mongoose
1984 is a good source of Paranoia plots but don't forget 2 Hours Till Doom later made into the comedy classic Dr Strangelove!
darth_azabrush
Mongoose
Red Alert was the American title because 2 hours till doom was too scary for them!
darth_azabrush
Mongoose
One of a long list of books and films renamed for dumb America!
darth_azabrush
Mongoose
Nothing personal just theres a list of title changes made for the hill billys
Licence to Kill was orginally Licence Revoked
Madness of King George III became Madness of King George just in case people thought it was the third part of a sequence!
The list goes on!
Licence to Kill was orginally Licence Revoked
Madness of King George III became Madness of King George just in case people thought it was the third part of a sequence!
The list goes on!
Note, mostly this is sarcastic irritation at best, I mean no harm, but I'm proud of my country despite it's problems.
"No offense" but at least spell "Hill Billy's" right if you are gonna be negative towards us. Where are you from? Tell me so I can dig up some obscure reference and use it to belittle your country.
I see no point in saying the words "No Offense" and then following up with a generalized statement like that. You may mean "no offense" but that doesn't make it any less ignorant. What am I supposed to do, laugh and say yeah I'm a Hillbilly? Every country has their "Hill Billy's."
See I admit my country has it's "Hill Billy's" but I tend to take offense when I'm so lazily lumped into that mold.
"No offense" but at least spell "Hill Billy's" right if you are gonna be negative towards us. Where are you from? Tell me so I can dig up some obscure reference and use it to belittle your country.
I see no point in saying the words "No Offense" and then following up with a generalized statement like that. You may mean "no offense" but that doesn't make it any less ignorant. What am I supposed to do, laugh and say yeah I'm a Hillbilly? Every country has their "Hill Billy's."
See I admit my country has it's "Hill Billy's" but I tend to take offense when I'm so lazily lumped into that mold.
darth_azabrush
Mongoose
No offence meant no offence. I was targeting Hill Billies not Americans in general.
Mark Dunder
Mongoose
You will need to also read Brave New World, Orwell based 1984 on that, but you probably knew that.
darth_azabrush
Mongoose
Reading that for my Atlantis Course and Sci Fi of course!
darth_azabrush
Mongoose
Watch Alphaville. That's ridiculously and scarily like Paranoia and it predates it by almost 30 years!
Let's not get all snippy about the renaming of various films and books in the United States. This is commonly done of US films and books in other nations as well. In fact, Europeans have a pretty long history of renaming their own books when they are not "comfortable" with the title.
One of my favorites is that Dante's "Comedy" (the original title) was renamed "The Divine Comedy" because semi-literate European priests didn't realize what "comedy" was in literature. Technically, at the time it was written, there were only two "classifications" of stories: "comedies" and "tragedies". The only difference being that most of the protagonists in a "comedy" generally survived the story and that the story usually had a happy ending, and in a "tragedy" most of the protagonists died (in fact, usually, in a tragedy, pretty much everyone dies). That isn't to say there aren't any funny bits in tragedies, nor there aren't people dying in comedies.
Dante's "Comedy" depicts a guy wandering through the various layers of hell, then going through Purgatory, and finally ending up in Heavan, where he finds who he was looking for all along (his dead wife). Happy ending, ergo "comedy".
That, of course, wasn't enough for the European elite. I mean, gosh, how could one "laugh" about something so biblical?
Point being, "he who lives in a glass house...."
One of my favorites is that Dante's "Comedy" (the original title) was renamed "The Divine Comedy" because semi-literate European priests didn't realize what "comedy" was in literature. Technically, at the time it was written, there were only two "classifications" of stories: "comedies" and "tragedies". The only difference being that most of the protagonists in a "comedy" generally survived the story and that the story usually had a happy ending, and in a "tragedy" most of the protagonists died (in fact, usually, in a tragedy, pretty much everyone dies). That isn't to say there aren't any funny bits in tragedies, nor there aren't people dying in comedies.
Dante's "Comedy" depicts a guy wandering through the various layers of hell, then going through Purgatory, and finally ending up in Heavan, where he finds who he was looking for all along (his dead wife). Happy ending, ergo "comedy".
That, of course, wasn't enough for the European elite. I mean, gosh, how could one "laugh" about something so biblical?
Point being, "he who lives in a glass house...."
Allen Varney
Mongoose
Clangador, in lieu of posting "I've never heard of that," you can easily jump to Google or Wikipedia and satisfy your curiosity in mere moments:
Alphaville entry on Wikipedia
Alphaville entry on Wikipedia
