Comments | cap_scaleman: In French please!

cap_scaleman

In French please!

Feb 16, 2006 10:13

Oh, this is interesting. Quake 4 Demo with soldiers speaking French. I like this, brings back memories from running around in the corridors of the Black Mesa Research facility in Half-life(Opposing Force and Blue Shift included) but it also alienates me since I haven't studied French at all. If I could play a game in another language other than ( Read more... )

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silenceinspades February 16 2006, 16:18:29 UTC

i'd recommend most of the 'new wave' french films. especially week-end, breathless, alphaville or anything godard did up until the late 70s really.

i've never played or even seen any of the games your talking about, but i'm assuming the soldiers say something along the lines of 'le tir des monstres est amusement! tellement amusement, je saigne de mes yeux! ah, monstre, vous avez une cigarette?' because i figure all french video game characters are very sarcastic, have terrible grammar, and want cigarrettes.

cap_scaleman February 16 2006, 17:26:30 UTC

Ah, thankyou, any recommendations are good, the worst part is to try and find something to rent or buy.

Heh, being stranded on a planet with aliens that wants to change you into one of them by making you a cyborg is the perfect situation for smoking! As we saw with that medic, the future cigarettes will be inhaled in the knee and will prevent diseases.

anglerfish96 February 16 2006, 19:28:10 UTC

The film I'm expecting in the mail today is Le Samourai, which many many people have recommended to me, and apparently has nothing to do with samurai. I'm also a big fan of Godard (though I do tend to favor his stuff up to and including Weekend), and more and more appreciating his compatriot, Truffault. In fact I'm beginning to feel Truffault is superior to Godard, just not as adventurous cinematically.

silenceinspades February 16 2006, 21:36:58 UTC

i'm very tempted to disagree with you and enter into another purple rain/cherry moon style argument, but that prince fight left me emotionally vacant and destroyed and besides i think i've only seen one or two truffaut movies. le samourai is pretty good. alain delon was a cool guy, if only for impregnating nico.

anglerfish96 February 16 2006, 21:58:26 UTC

Haha... let me put it this way-- I love Godard. Absolutely. There just isn't much humanity in his expressions. That is what Truffaut is good at, still mixing in a bit of the narrative fireworks that Godard does, yet remaining on an even keel. Truffaut knew balance. However, Godard is probably the more important one, being that he basically tore apart cinema at every level and reveled in it. Oh, and Anna Karina, too. He had that. Have you seen Le Petit Soldat, yet? It's really underrated, I think. Probably the worst example of the potential of Godard's excesses was Sympathy for the Devil. It would've been sooo great if he'd just kept his camera on the music-making. The vignettes are embarrassing. And I'm willing to forgive a lot.

silenceinspades February 17 2006, 06:39:24 UTC

i just added le petit soldat to my netflix queue, i haven't seen it. i also haven't seen sympathy for the devil, and sort of have no interest to. i, of course, like godard's earlier stuff, like everyone else i think he sort of lost his mind when he got older.

i see what you're saying andi love 400 blows, but it just seems tame compared to godard's craziness.