Sunday 27 May 2007

*hits cough button* "Yeah, right."

"The climax of the Cannes Film Festival looms, as the jury prepares to announce the winner of this year's Palme d'Or. The international jury, led by British director Stephen Frears, will choose from a shortlist of 22 films. A thriller from US film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen and a Romanian film about abortion are among the favourites.
In contrast to last year, which saw Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley take the top prize, no British films featured in this year's competition. "

from the BBC's website,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6692481.stm

A British film? I don't think so.

Admittedly, it was not an exclusively Irish production; Amazon.com lists the studio as '20th Century Fox Home Entertainment', a Yanqui company, though, not British.

So it seems the distinction is a geographical one: when Irish films or actors win awards, they become British. What next? I imagine whatever medals Ireland wins in the 2008 Olympics will just be quietly tagged on to the British tally.
In the words of Samuel L. Jackson, during his interview with Kate Thornton,
"You see that’s your problem right there. You British keep claiming people that don’t belong to you. We had that problem here in America too, it was called slavery. "

/end rant.

[Incidentally, the title is a reference to a radio broadcast during the Suez Canal incident, when the BBC were charged with informing the public that Britain and France were entering the conflict as 'peacekeepers'. The newsreader hit the 'cough' button, to mute his transmission while he expressed his incredulity to his fellow presenters, but the button didn't function, and that comment went out live on air. What larks, eh? what larks.]

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aria said...

"You British keep claiming people that don’t belong to you."

That sounds like China! They keep claiming even a part of India in the excuse of physiognomy.

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Aria, welcome back :D
you've been AWOL so long, i was growing concerned.
those Chinese...bah. if they give you any trouble, just give me a call, and i'll...erm...write a strongly-worded, polysyllabic, sesquidepalian-infused letter.

aria said...

Hehe.. so sweet. Thanks.. for the letter and welcome both! :)

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