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dhampyresaFor the past couple days or so, my Parisian/French friends and I have been playing "tag yourself: which Paris cliché are you?" and other things on the same "could this GET any more cliché" vein about the "Emily In Paris" trailer. And gritting our teeth at the sheer US-ness of it all
And we're not the only ones.
It got dragged by fucking Netflix france!
(If Emily had come to your city and not "in Paris", what would be the big clichés of the show?)
Anyway, I am very interested in knowing how "Emily in [your location/subculture/etc]" would be like. Pleas entertain me.
And we're not the only ones.
It got dragged by fucking Netflix france!
Si Emily était venue dans ta ville et non pas "in Paris", ce serait quoi les gros clichés de la série ?
— Netflix France (@NetflixFR) October 7, 2020
(If Emily had come to your city and not "in Paris", what would be the big clichés of the show?)
Anyway, I am very interested in knowing how "Emily in [your location/subculture/etc]" would be like. Pleas entertain me.
Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street
Date: 2020-10-13 02:46 am (UTC)Bonus wrong-way points in the movie for Benjamin riding a bus to the Berkeley campus on Telegraph Avenue -- which, again, was one-way the other direction at the time of the movie, and for several years before then.
"It looks better that way" really shouldn't be an excuse.
Re: Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street
Date: 2020-10-16 12:02 am (UTC)https://www.wired.com/2009/08/bullitt-google-map/
Re: Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street
Date: 2020-10-16 12:57 am (UTC)As far as riding one's bike in gross defiance of traffic laws, I did that once -- took it southbound through the MacArthur Tunnel (Hwy 1 under the Presidio). And nobody cared! Reason? All the approaches to the Golden Gate Bridge were closed down for the 1987 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the bridge, so it could be opened to pedestrians. I was one of the estimated 3/4 of a million there. I lived in San Francisco at the time, so I rode my bike to the bridge. Didn't get any further than the south tower before I needed to go home and get to another event that day. But when I saw there was no traffic leaving the area at all, I decided to take the shortest route home.
This stretch of highway is marked "Motor Vehicles Only" -- understandable because the only time it doesn't have three lanes of traffic zooming along at 45mph/75kph is when it has three lanes full of traffic at a dead stop because they don't have any place to go at the other end. But that day, it was blessedly empty.
Re: Cycling the wrong way down a one-way street
Date: 2020-10-16 02:38 am (UTC)That bike ride almost sounds like when they emptied the London bridge for 28 Days Later. Except there was just you!