[lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?

Like duh.  If heroes were the rule, what would a heroes' hero be?   Maybe in 
Brazil arrogant cowboys are the rule?  If so, what are Brazilian heroes like?  
What exactly is your Brazilian friends' point?  I'm guessing that your 
Brazilian friends are disappointed that in the U.S. everyone doesn't really 
swing from building to building on a spider web?
   
   
  

Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  > This is America. We're bloodthirsty, crazed, ready to invade--Everywhere! 
Anywhere! Anything--at the drop of a nosedrip, and 
we''ve got CSI tv shows in every city in the country, to boot.


At least for the Brazilians I spoke with, the reading of 
America is in the background of the action. They don't think 
Clint Eastwood or Bruce Willis is the representative 
American; rather these arrogant cowboys are the *exceptions* 
to the timid bureaucratic and ineffectual schmoes in the 
background. The poll-obsessed mayor who thwarts Dirty Harry 
and all the mayor's staff...these are where some look to see 
the Americans. The hero-type is the exception, and usually 
that heroic exception has to resign or become hunted himself 
before he can solve a case without the constraints of ... 
those people in the background, who by force of numbers in 
every action-drama, are the Americans they show.

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