[lit-ideas] Re: Didn't I tell you so?
- From: Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:53:08 -0700 (PDT)
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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