Why does this film confuse 99% of Americans?

Dance music culture is lower profile in the USA. Maybe there's still that "disco sucks!" backlash hanging around. Or maybe it's the "War on (some) Drugs" that has law enforcement sending in night-vision equipped helicopters and cops dressed like Rambo to bust peaceful raves in the Utah countryside. And that "crackhouse" law that makes venue owners liable if any drug dealing happens on the premises...

In contrast, the UK and Europe have many massive dance festivals. DJs like Pete Tong have regular shows on national radio stations. Perhaps the closest equivalent in the USA are the DJs that have sets on Sirius or XM. In Canada, about the only nationally known DJ would be Chris Sheppard.

I'd also suspect that few Americans have the slightest idea what an Ibiza is. If you told them it was an island, I'm sure they'd all support invading it to protect democracy from WMDs (or sunburnt Germans wearing Speedos) and secure the suntan oil reserves.

Instead of making an elaborate in-joke, what would have been so wrong with the original idea of making "Human Traffic 2" but set in Ibiza? If there's boobies and drugs and debauchery and at least one hot American actress, and a basically good story underpinning it all, Americans will be entertained.

It was a skunk.

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Cause their history is barely 300yrs old unlike other`s.
so they are a little bit close minded.

One day I am going to grow wings.

See here in lies the problem. Not so concerned with the gist of the post were you. But only in appearing right and superior. I guess I could point out that once you change your citizenship that you intact become a part of that country and since all non native Americans are immigrants thought thee ancestors blah blah blah blah... pointless. And I guess I could point out that simultaneous invention is a well documented phenomenon. But I gota say in lew of a long winded antagonistic discourse on the relative importance of invention by those who could or could not be Americans.. I would rather converse about your relative lack of primary argument. To whit, I point out major contributions the world tech and culture and all you can do is call into question the ability to claim an outdated technology as possibly American. I called you a parasite that enjoys the fruits of a culture that loves you, while you bash it in print, and whom you most likely if you were to take a realistic look at your wardrobe and music/movie/videogame library would realize you to some degree emulate. Your primary response is to debate the origins of the telephone. Look m8 I don’t hate you im not even trying to make a big argument here. I’m trying to help you. See you look like a wank when you say things like 99% ... of anything. It’s silly. It seems to be born of a need to feel superior. And believe me you probable are to a certain degree superior to some of the 350 million people livening here. But the problem is in the number 350 million. How many of them do you perceive to be the stereotypes that your local media and your limited exposure to the culture represent? Very few I would think as your ideas from what I can see are indicative of a young mind with very little experience of a culture you doubtlessly live very far from. In short, your post makes you look silly. And I hate to see that.
And as far as my ability to understand this movie. I feel I should take a moment to give my feelings about it since you have already made a baseless assumption about my ability to understand the subject matter at hand. And of course discussing the movie is the primary focus of this forum. Well lets look at the film then shall we. Interesting ideas I spent a year in school in London so I am familiar with cockney slang. I had never heard "it’s all gone Pete tong but I knew this movies origin and the tendency for this subcultures slang to incorporate rhyming in its slang. I also know who Pete Tong is. B4 watching I read a synopsis and the catchers/actor list so I realized this was not about him. I must say the movie is interesting and funny. I felt that it was fractious in its delivery as it explores two different moods during the film. the juxtaposition of the a wacky coked up DJ who is revered but not much respected (the tendency to look foolish while spinning and the frequent unknown sexual encounters of Frankie’s wife, even his son who is obviously the son of a black man), against the more serious second half of his career as a deaf dj whose morals and willingness to grow shapes his eventual choices in life. I believe it’s this "growth" that gives the movie the weight to be more than a silly "wouldn’t-it-be-weird" piece. I like the visual ideal of making music based on the visual wave symmetry alone, and more so when he uses the skills acquired by learning to lip read to find patterns in life and then by applying that to looking at his old music patterns in his new compilations. all this in the sharp relief of the numerous well place jokes such as the crowing shot about needing two auzie m8s when in fact there Austrian. I personally use visual wave symmetry in the music I make and all the major music editing programs have this capability (REASON, cu-base, protools). Perfuse 73 uses this tech to great effect in his wave cutting and micro programming of vocal stuttering effects. This adds a level of realism, especially as it would seemingly tend to make the movie a proponent of the new wave of sequencing that has been the driving force for so much electronic music over the last 10 years (as apposed to plugging it all out with manual 303s and 808s or the like). I think that this movie could very well have played as a strait drama though certain changes in atmosphere and characters would be necessary. Primarily a producer like say Dabrye who is much more into the heavy base driven minimalist seen, instead of a goofy Ibiza DJ and his coke addiction manifesting itself as a violent coke-up badger (fav character in movie btw). All in all I would say this movie, especially considering the shoe string it was shot on, was a very good examination of the premise it set out to explore. It was funny and it had some soul. Good job all around.
One more thing b4 I go. We are all a product of our environments. As an American I git angry because so many of you out there have no idea what it is to live here. You dont seem to relize that the silly goofball American stereotype, callously sucking down cheeseburgers while driving our V8 ford to the drive in to try to date rape our girlfriends as were watching a Vietnam war movie followed up by a night of drinking Budweiser and commiserating what a great job Gorge bush JR is doing killing all the brown people is about as accurate as a French guy in a barrette and tights with a loaf of French bread riding a bike with a great big front wheal around the big funny looking tower. Or perhaps the English man at a cricket game drinking a cup of tea with his pinky sticking out taking about what a capital fakin job the quean is doing. ITS all Crap. It doesn’t fit the facts. And when im saying that i don’t hate you man I mean it. Just stop the silly stereotyping... all of you. It’s ridiculous. Like the poster who says most Americans can’t name a DJ who isn’t fat boy slim, yeah prob right, but we who like electronic music can and there are probably more of us then there are of you by friking exponents. There are 350 million of us here and even small subcultures are huge in comparison to countries who aren’t even the size of Texas or California. I guess that about wraps up this rant. I don’t have any last admonishments or a great big conclusion. Knock it off. It’s getting old already. There are pleanty of good reasons to dislike us, But no good reason to hate us all. Most of all nothing aplys to 99% of us

TBL designed HTTP and HTML. Ie, "the web." The Internet predates the WWW by, what, something like 20 years. Good try, tho.

ya those guys are pretty funny, fighting that way. btw, the coke animal was a badger! i thought that was hilarious

I'll explain the confusion as best as I can. I am an American woman who has been going to clubs and listening to electronic music for about 8 years. I have heard of Pete Tong and even have several Radio 1 mixes on which he appears as the radio DJ over the people spinning the music.

Last night my friend came over and told me that he had just watched this movie called "It's All Gone Pete Tong". He said that it was about this British DJ that goes deaf but continues to be able to DJ by seeing the beat. I was like, "Wow, I had no idea that Pete Tong was deaf! That's crazy!" I could not have told you whether Pete Tong actually spun music, or if he was just a radio announcer. He did not say anything about Pete Tong being the main character, but by the title I assumed that it was the case. I also had no idea that it was a mockumentary.

When I thought about it, I began to think that maybe Pete Tong wasn't the main character because, inferring from the title, it sounds as though the main character is telling Pete Tong that he can no longer hear.

Now that I know that the movie is neither about Pete Tong, nor any other real person, it makes much more sense. And I do get the whole Cockney jargon word replacement thing, but I don't think I could ever even attempt to try it myself.

Now, my friend who saw the movie is very into electronic and especially UK jungle, but I don't think that he realized that the movie wasn't about a real person, and he is very intelligent. The reason that "99% of Americans" don't get it is because less than 99% of Americans listen to any form of electronic music. The most electro they get is Moby or Madonna. When my friends try to DJ some electronic records out at a club, mostly they get the response, "Can you play that new 50 Cent song?" People are just narrow minded, and I don't think that it is because they are American. It's just a relatively new genre of music over here and many peole that do like it are embarassed to say so because most people think that it's just "squacking and bleeping."



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