Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax2.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: _My_New_Partner_ and nasty subliminal messages... Message-ID: <743@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 14:42:22 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.743 Posted: Mon Jun 24 14:42:22 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:28:03 EDT References: <2157@ut-sally.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 35 In article <2157@ut-sally.UUCP> kelvin@ut-sally.UUCP (Kelvin Thompson) writes: > [...]but other audiences > will recognize the insidious messages planted by _Partner_ as part of a > larger trend, a trend which corresponds roughly with the ascension to > power of Mitterand's "Socialist" government in France. Certainly American > audiences will realize that all of the recent films coming out of France > -- from _Jupiter's_Thigh_ to _Coup_de_Torchon_ to _Diva_ -- portray the > police as ineffectual boobies and trivialize their position in society. Hey, I *liked* _Diva_! All they showed was one unhonest head of police... what do you think _Witness_ portrayed? > With luck, however, careful viewers of movies like _Partner_ may come to > fully appreciate the foul fruit that is ripening in the heart of Europe > and avert the explosion peacefully, before a drop of blood need be shed. Remember, kids, the Weed of Crime bears bitter fruit! Nyahh-Ahh-Ahh! Come on, I disliked _My_New_Partner_ immensely, too, due to the fact that I cannot swallow acts as irresponsible as those of Noiret's character (apparently French audiences do). However, seeing insidous world-wide socialist plots in foreign films smacks of reading one's own opinions into the plot; otherwise, one begins to sound like certain characters in _Dr._Strangelove_... "If this is foreplay, I'm a dead man!" Expect the Unexpected. He does. ---> Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsri}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA