One of the things we try to do when we travel is to see a film in a local cinema. It gives us a better idea of how the locals live.
On our last visit to Paris, Jennifer Garner posters were all over the Métro tunnels. Her new movie, "30 Going on 13" had just opened. The French title was "30 Ans… Sinon Rien" and the posters were so large that her face made a convenient target. On most, she had blacked-out teeth or whited-out eyes. Kids are kids the world over.
We really had no desire to see this movie (sorry, Jennifer!), so using the weekly Pariscope events guide, a Métro map, and the arrondissement guide, we plotted a course to the Gaumont 1er Cinéma and saw Spiderman 2 in v.o. (version originale, i.e. the original language in which the film was made). Admission was 8.60E, and the seats alone were worth it – cushy, like armchairs, purportedly the most comfortable theatre seats in the city.
The audience was just like an American audience, not rowdy as they were in Rotterdam or with rolling beer bottles as they were in Bruges. I spent a lot of time reading the French subtitles to see how sentences translated. Very educational, although I now do not remember how one calls someone a jerk. "Idiot" is "crétin" and "chin up" was translated as "courage."
It was a better film than the first Spiderman; the characters had some depth to them. Villains were not totally evil, and they were capable of change.
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