Went to an Irish pub last night to watch a soccer game and learned a whole slew of new Spanish profanities. I'm the constant student, always working on vocabulary. Also, have been renting French films, Swedish films, German films and have to watch them with Spanish subtitles. But it's good practice for me.
I did rent one American movie, Vicky Christina Barcelona, because I was curious how an American movie might portray Spanish life. I thought it was an interesting enough movie but I didn't recognize Spain in it at all. It seemed more like Hollywood's polished version of Spain. I guess Woody Allen understands New York better than Europe.
I've been asking Spaniards if they've seen the movie, curious to hear their reaction, and it's been overwhelmingly negative. They think it portrays Spanish people has unrealistic wine-drinking, orgy-seeking crazy people. I also thought it was funny because some people were alarmed that the protagonists were listening to Spanish guitar and watching Flamenco in Barcelona. Everybody knows this comes from the south. However, the Spaniards seem to like Woody Allen a lot and this is his only blemish. Will be watching Intermezzo tonight...
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