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**DanS** · May 12, 2002, 19:01

Originally posted by MarkG
but what does this have to do with a movie distributed on a world-wide market???

Well, sh!t, Einstein. Would you have us remove all the flags from where they normally are, just to make the Greeks happy?

**Sava** · May 12, 2002, 19:56

If you want, Markos, I can make a "Anthony the Gyro Slinging Greek Boy" into an animated series

**MarkG** · May 12, 2002, 20:07

Would you have us remove all the flags from where they normally are

dont know if you noticed, but movies do NOT normally end with a flag....

**MarkG** · May 12, 2002, 20:08

more news for DanS: ww2 is over!!! we won!!!!

**DanS** · May 12, 2002, 20:15

"dont know if you noticed, but movies do NOT normally end with a flag.... "

News Flash! Nor do they normally end on top of a building!

**MarkG** · May 12, 2002, 20:20

so the director just wanted spiderman on top of a large building and since all large building in the US have a flag on the top, it was logical to have in the very last frame of the movie spiderman next to the proudly waving american flag

**DanS** · May 12, 2002, 20:23

"it was logical to have in the very last frame of the movie spiderman next to the proudly waving american flag"

Precisely.

At page 6, we have finally figured it out!

**MarkG** · May 12, 2002, 20:29

that's it, it's (as always) just a simple coincidence....

and remember: it's just a movie!

btw: it's page 4

more news: we won the cold war too!!

/me now waits anxiously for OBL to finally get ~~killed~~ arrested, Iraq bombed and liberated from Saddam, etc etc, so that he might see a movie with less ~~nationalistic nonsense~~ coincidences....

**TCO** · May 12, 2002, 21:12

American nationalism is not the danger. It's FYROMulan that is...

**Tingkai** · May 12, 2002, 21:47

Come on Mark. You're seem to think these Hollywood types have imagination. The hero standing beside the American flag is one of the standard cliche shots used by Hollywood filmakers.

It is right up there with the standard buddy shot of two guys walking towards the camera with an explosion in the background. Or the person diving to escape an explosion in the background. Or the typical Hollywood happy ending where everyone cheers and claps their hands.

It is boring, easy and predicatable, but that's what American audiences want.

**alva** · May 12, 2002, 23:24

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Well, it could have ended with a giant product placement ad for say, Starbucks, count your blessings.

what's the differance between this and the american flag

**Sprayber** · May 12, 2002, 23:47

Originally posted by Tingkai
It is boring, easy and predicatable, but that's what American audiences want.

And yet, foreigners still watch them no matter what.

**Dom Pedro II** · May 12, 2002, 23:52

it was logical to have in the very last frame of the movie spiderman next to the proudly waving american flag

Would it have been better if the flag was lying dead against the pole due to an uncharacteristically windless day?

**KrazyHorse** · May 12, 2002, 23:53

And yet, foreigners still watch them no matter what

Same reason we like to watch Jerry Springer and COPS: it's not in our backyard, so it's amusing.

**Dom Pedro II** · May 13, 2002, 00:00

Same reason we like to watch Jerry Springer and COPS: it's not in our backyard, so it's amusing.

Yet for an American resident like myself, I'm left to put my head in my hands and weep at the downfall of Western civilization... *nods seriously*

BTW, I think your explanation is the same as why Americans like to watch news footage from Israel or Bosnia.

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