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Notably a core plot device in the French Home Alone style film Deadly Games (aka Dial Code Santa). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Games_(film) https://en
by markharper 5y ago
Notably a core plot device in the French Home Alone style film Deadly Games (aka Dial Code Santa).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Games_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Games_(film)
- dmix 5y agoThe trailer is like a Bizarro world Home Alone https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096741/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096741/ Now I’m curious if the Home Alone screenwriter watched it.
- elvis70 5y agoJohn Hughes watched it at the festival of Cannes in 1989, after this article (in French): https://www.bfmtv.com/people/3615-code-pere-noel-le-film-francais-culte-qui-a-inspire-maman-j-ai-rate-l-avion_AN-202012240039.html https://www.bfmtv.com/people/3615-code-pere-noel-le-film-fra...
- dmix 5y agoThis has always been a great business idea. Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions then pitch them to Hollywood. Also I find it amusing that Home Alone in France is titled "Mom, I missed the plane"
- elvis70 5y agoAt least, René Manzor was eventually hired by Amblin.
- uoaei 5y agoIntellectual property theft is a great business idea, you're right! Quite the condemnation of both social constructs :)
- southerntofu 5y ago> Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions That's the entire history of Hollywood and american music industry. Those businesses who wouldn't like us to share made their fortunes on entirely borrowed things from other cultures. Many of the great revered american singers copied note-for-note traditional african songs, for example.
- kingcharles 5y agoWTF did I just watch O_O. And as a Brit I'm intimately familiar with much French cinema, but this was awesome. I have to watch this now.