Let's face it. American audiences are dumb (Not Americans per se, just the pizza munching, pimple popping dreck that go to the movies there). They can barely READ, let alone follow a complex, philosophically and historically charged story. America itself doesn't even have a history proper. This is a very European film, made for mature, educated European viewers. Unsurprisingly, it failed at the US box office.
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And yet, the book on which it's based was on the New York Times best-seller list when it was released here in the US in 1983. One of the best-selling books of that year. So there.
shareWell, I would imagine that the demographic composition of the book buying public is considerably different from that of the movie ticket buying public.
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time was a massive bestseller for a while, and yet it's estimated that fewer than a tenth of those who bought it have actually read the thing. And that only a small portion of those understood it, even though it was written for popular audiences rather than scientists.
Ditto Orwell's 1984.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
What philosophical charge did you find in the film?
shareTroll.
shareTrolls like you hilariously betray your own undiagnosed US obsession. Get over us; believe me, we're over you. Europeans like you are like crazy ex-girlfriends who won't give up that we've moved on. Sorry, the US reigns supreme in every way and the whole world knows it.
shareArrogant too?
Honni soit qui mal y pense!
To much T & A in this one. THE END! F-bombs wins against A-bombs...ALWAYS!
shareI'm a European and quite frankly I find your post rather embarrassing and insulting. Believe me, we have plenty of pizza munching idiots of our own.
shareIt just lacked any really big names of the day. The star...Connery, was at a very low point in his career and wasn't a draw for much of anything.
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