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   From: LynnG@PastaNSauce.com   
      
   "Felsenmeer"  wrote in message   
   news:0FZqd.1919$rC.289@fe39.usenetserver.com...   
   >> All things are relative, ehh cap? I posted the figures before but what   
   >> the   
   >> French film industry brings in yearly is miniscule compared to the US   
   >> film   
   >> industry.   
   >>   
   >   
   > What I'm getting out of all of this is just that Americans are more   
   > willing   
   > to sit on their asses watching movies than the rest of the world.   
   >   
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   The statement has already been made that you are not very smart, which you   
   did not refute.   
      
   American movies are distributed worldwide whereas French movies are not.   
   Most people don't want to watch French movies so there is not much purpose   
   to distributing them outside of France and Belgium. Occasionally, the French   
   might be able to pick up a few Euros in Germany or Italy, etc.   
      
   Americans have more disposable income so if they want to go to a   
   movie/restaurant, it's all very routine.   
   Euros have lots of time off because most of them are unemployed. Maybe they   
   can sit on the steps in the piazza but they probably don't have enough cash   
   for the cinema. That's assuming that there would be a movie worth watching.   
   Like the old Soviet movie industry, the French just put out any old junk   
   because they don't pay for it and don't have to worry if nobody comes to   
   watch.   
      
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