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What's the name of this movie?[edit]
I saw this movie several years ago. I guess the movie should be from 60s or 70s. Also, I guess the movie be made in France, Italy or German (but not USA). I just remember a few scenes, I hope it would be enough. The movie is about two buddies that carry a chair with them. They think that a treasure is embedded inside the chair, so they are very protective about it. At the end, they discover that the chair was not the one they expected (there is no treasure inside it). After realizing this, one of them become insane, he still believes that the chair contain a treasure and still don't want to put it away. In the last scene of the movie, he throw the chair away and pretend that he is ill, so people come around them and threw dime at them, so this way, they become reach. I remember another scene of the movie. In that scene, while they are hungry and starving, they enter a party, one of them is able to get some food but the other not. He demands his friend to let him eat from his food, but when he sees that how messy he is eating, he says "I'm not hungry" or something similar. This may not be an important scene, but this is what I remember from the movie. I hope it would be enough for you to recognize the movie I am looking for. Thank you. 46.225.198.118 (talk) 00:40, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- Possibly The Twelve Chairs? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:12, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- Looking very familiar, I think that's the movie I'm looking for. Thank you very very much! 46.225.198.118 (talk) 01:52, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- Note that many movies have been made from the same novel. —Tamfang (talk) 03:13, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
'Cool Britannia'[edit]
During the 1990's, did ‘Cool Britannia’ portray itself as a victory of style over substance? Was there much meaning behind Cool Britannia or was it all superficial? --Pofatyuoopol19 (talk) 09:53, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- "Cool Britannia" was a label given to a style of music that barely existed in itself. The groups and artists that get lumped together under its banner are as disparate as the 18 - 40 year olds at any one time in the UK could be. At the "left-wing" end you had the Manic Street Preachers, Pulp and Blur, while you could argue that Oasis was further to the right politically but even that's a matter of opinion, the Gallagher brothers being famously apolitical. So insofar as it could be anything beyond a label, I would argue that it was only Tony Blair's attempt at hijacking it that attempted to give it any depth or meaning. Mind you the music was bloody good. --TammyMoet (talk) 10:09, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- I don't know that it portrayed itself as anything, since fashion movements are not autonomous beings with sentience or sapience. It also wasn't, strictly speaking, a musical genre (the musical genres in question would be things like Britpop or girl groups or indie rock, etc. Cool Britannia was more of a fashion movement than a musical genre. Other fashion movements would be things like hippie chic, which like Cool Britannia recalled the American 60's fashion sense. --Jayron32 13:18, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- The Stuckists would certainly think that the "Cool Britannia" YBAs met that description.--Shirt58 (talk) 09:28, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- You are wrong. The YBAs were never part of the Cool Britannia scene. --Viennese Waltz 09:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- ♪♫ They all go hand in hand, hand in hand through their artlife ♫♪.. well, at least according to Wikipedia, that is.--Shirt58 (talk) 10:10, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- You are wrong. The YBAs were never part of the Cool Britannia scene. --Viennese Waltz 09:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
- The Stuckists would certainly think that the "Cool Britannia" YBAs met that description.--Shirt58 (talk) 09:28, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
America (Fuck Yeah)[edit]
Who performed the song America (Fuck Yeah) in the movie Team America: World Police? 2A02:582:C5A:4300:186A:139:EE64:9383 (talk) 14:42, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
- DVDA (band) - that is, Trey Parker on vocals, Matt Stone on bass, and other members of the team on other instruments. Tevildo (talk) 16:53, 28 September 2015 (UTC)