anybody have examples of the opposite? American hollywood movies/shows that nonchalantly presented something common in the USA, but was jarring when you watched it?
In this sci-fi film with Tom cruise’s clones that are some kind of watchmen over the planet, there’s a flashback scene. Tom cruise is reminded of his human life before the cloning because he sees an American gridiron football goal.
That scene immediately broke my immersion and I was like, yeah that’s Hollywood, it’s a film by Americans. I was no longer in the story.
The same happened to me with other forms of media. There’s a song that would translate to “favourite person” and has a line “even the traffic jam on the A2 is quickly over when I’m with you”. But I never use the A2. It’s at the other end of the country. That made me stumble when I listened to it the first time.
Breaking indoor walls so damn easily, thought it was a Hollywood thing like exploding cars, endless mags etc. Took me a while to get that such thin walls are just common in the US
They make them out of literal cardboard now because drywall is too expensive. I wish I was joking. Look up cyfy on YouTube, he’s a home inspector in Arizona and some of the million dollar+ homes he inspects are actual temu quality shitholes from big name builders.
And how you have flags on everything, including outside people’s houses.
“Central air” is a term I only learned the meaning of recently, but American TV assumes everyone knows what it is. Which is fair, if you all have it. Same with the hand blenders you have in your kitchen sinks.
When I was in public elementary school we had old textbooks and one of them was trying to talk shit about the Soviets by saying that their educational system was creating robotic, unemotional children who obeyed instructions unquestioningly. They juxtaposed a picture of Soviet students standing uniformly with a picture of American students all doing different things. I questioned it at the time and said if they took a picture of us doing the pledge it would look the same as the commies. I sound 100 years old but this was only 20 years ago.
Central air and garbage disposals are amazing and should be the norm
Someone didn’t grow up in the Cold War era. They drilled that shit and followed it up with “duck and cover” in case the Soviets nuked us. As if your desk provided cover from the nuclear holocaust.
ATLA ironically may have desensitised me to the pledge thing by trying to show it as a creepy thing in the Fire Nation school. Instead, it just became part of the narrative flow, which was somewhat opposite the intent.
Then again, I’ve probably come to associate it with singing shitty school songs and national anthems in Australia anyway.
anybody have examples of the opposite? American hollywood movies/shows that nonchalantly presented something common in the USA, but was jarring when you watched it?
In this sci-fi film with Tom cruise’s clones that are some kind of watchmen over the planet, there’s a flashback scene. Tom cruise is reminded of his human life before the cloning because he sees an American gridiron football goal.
That scene immediately broke my immersion and I was like, yeah that’s Hollywood, it’s a film by Americans. I was no longer in the story.
The same happened to me with other forms of media. There’s a song that would translate to “favourite person” and has a line “even the traffic jam on the A2 is quickly over when I’m with you”. But I never use the A2. It’s at the other end of the country. That made me stumble when I listened to it the first time.
A teacher needing to sell meth to pay for his cancer treatment.
Tbf he didn’t have to do that.
He liked it and was good at it (debatable)
Breaking indoor walls so damn easily, thought it was a Hollywood thing like exploding cars, endless mags etc. Took me a while to get that such thin walls are just common in the US
They make them out of literal cardboard now because drywall is too expensive. I wish I was joking. Look up cyfy on YouTube, he’s a home inspector in Arizona and some of the million dollar+ homes he inspects are actual temu quality shitholes from big name builders.
Pledge of allegiance in school is quite unusual.
And how you have flags on everything, including outside people’s houses.
“Central air” is a term I only learned the meaning of recently, but American TV assumes everyone knows what it is. Which is fair, if you all have it. Same with the hand blenders you have in your kitchen sinks.
When I was in public elementary school we had old textbooks and one of them was trying to talk shit about the Soviets by saying that their educational system was creating robotic, unemotional children who obeyed instructions unquestioningly. They juxtaposed a picture of Soviet students standing uniformly with a picture of American students all doing different things. I questioned it at the time and said if they took a picture of us doing the pledge it would look the same as the commies. I sound 100 years old but this was only 20 years ago.
Central air and garbage disposals are amazing and should be the norm
Someone didn’t grow up in the Cold War era. They drilled that shit and followed it up with “duck and cover” in case the Soviets nuked us. As if your desk provided cover from the nuclear holocaust.
ATLA ironically may have desensitised me to the pledge thing by trying to show it as a creepy thing in the Fire Nation school. Instead, it just became part of the narrative flow, which was somewhat opposite the intent.
Then again, I’ve probably come to associate it with singing shitty school songs and national anthems in Australia anyway.
a hand blender in my sink? TF?
Are you referring to a garbage disposer?
On the pledge, some of us know.
Hollywood celebrities and writers all have “Central Air”. The rest of us know what it is, but we don’t all have it.
every american police movie