In Paris?

[dhampyresa]

For the past couple days or so, my Parisian/French friends and I have been playing "tag yourself: which Paris cliché are you?" and other things on the same "could this GET any more cliché" vein about the "Emily In Paris" trailer. And gritting our teeth at the sheer US-ness of it all

And we're not the only ones.

It got dragged by fucking Netflix france!

Si Emily était venue dans ta ville et non pas "in Paris", ce serait quoi les gros clichés de la série ?

— Netflix France (@NetflixFR) October 7, 2020

(If Emily had come to your city and not "in Paris", what would be the big clichés of the show?)

Anyway, I am very interested in knowing how "Emily in [your location/subculture/etc]" would be like. Pleas entertain me.

Comments

[dolorosa_12]

Emily in my country of origin would be on a beach, full of blonde, tanned people drinking beer, cooking sausages on a barbecue, and saying 'g'day' a lot, and there would be kangaroos roaming the streets. And none of the actors would get our accent right and would instead sound like Americans trying to do a Cockney accent.

Emily in my current home town would cycle the wrong way up King's Parade, somehow end up behind the college for the iconic skyscape that gets featured in every show/film set here, and would somehow stumble into a bunch of academics and students wearing academic gowns. She would then pop up in a completely different part of town with no indication as to how she cycled there (a portal?).

(Basically it's a bit of a cliché in films and TV shows set in Cambridge that characters seem to wander through one part of town and then suddenly step into another, even though in real life the two places are not next to each other. Likewise, they're always filmed cycling the wrong way down a one-way street, which in reality would see them yelled at loudly by irate professors.)

I am so, so fed up with American media treating the rest of the world as a kind of cliché-ridden theme park for Americans.

Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street

[ng_moonmoth]

Similar offense in my area is epitomized by the scene in The Graduate where Benjamin drives his car from San Francisco to Berkeley on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge -- which has never in its history been one-way that direction, and hasn't had any sort of traffic going that direction since the lower deck was repurposed from trucks and transit to eastbound traffic in 1962.

Bonus wrong-way points in the movie for Benjamin riding a bus to the Berkeley campus on Telegraph Avenue -- which, again, was one-way the other direction at the time of the movie, and for several years before then.

"It looks better that way" really shouldn't be an excuse.

Re: Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street

[kore]

LOL remember Bullitt? (showing my age)

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/bullitt-google-map/

Re: Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street

[ng_moonmoth]

Sure do. I'm pre-cable and 24hr television; test patterns were an inevitable part of my youth and early adulthood. And in those days, Bullitt was one of the small set of movies that were frequently shown.

As far as riding one's bike in gross defiance of traffic laws, I did that once -- took it southbound through the MacArthur Tunnel (Hwy 1 under the Presidio). And nobody cared! Reason? All the approaches to the Golden Gate Bridge were closed down for the 1987 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the bridge, so it could be opened to pedestrians. I was one of the estimated 3/4 of a million there. I lived in San Francisco at the time, so I rode my bike to the bridge. Didn't get any further than the south tower before I needed to go home and get to another event that day. But when I saw there was no traffic leaving the area at all, I decided to take the shortest route home.

This stretch of highway is marked "Motor Vehicles Only" -- understandable because the only time it doesn't have three lanes of traffic zooming along at 45mph/75kph is when it has three lanes full of traffic at a dead stop because they don't have any place to go at the other end. But that day, it was blessedly empty.

Re: Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street

[kore]

//old-timer fistbump I remember those! The Million Dollar Movie showing overnight and all that.

That bike ride almost sounds like when they emptied the London bridge for 28 Days Later. Except there was just you!

[dhampyresa]

She would then pop up in a completely different part of town with no indication as to how she cycled there (a portal?).
The adventures of the teleporting tourist!

I am so, so fed up with American media treating the rest of the world as a kind of cliché-ridden theme park for Americans.
As the kids say, MOOD.

[kore]

I am so, so fed up with American media treating the rest of the world as a kind of cliché-ridden theme park for Americans.

And then the Americans get to go to the actual cliche-ridden Disneyland theme parks! (WHY anyone would do that is beyond me.)