I convinced someone to see PotC instead of...PotC

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This may be more an example of MPSIMS, but it’s about movies so I thought I’d post it here.

I had a private English conversation lesson the other day with a Japanese woman in her late 20s. She’s a nice lady who likes Sex & The City, cute shoes, and karaoke. Towards the end of the lesson, she mentioned to me that she was interested in seeing the movie Passion. “Do you know it?”

I confessed that I did not. I assumed she must be talking about some sort of romance movie, and asked what it was about.

“It’s about…ah…Iesus Christo.” Yes, she actually said “Iesus Christo”. That threw me for just a second, but I then realized that she must be talking about The Passion of the Christ.

“Oh! Uh…you know, it’s not in English.”

“It’s not?”

“No, it’s in Latin. And another old language…”

“Maybe I will see Troy. It has Brad Pitt, and Orlando Bloom! I love him!”

“Did you see Pirates of the Caribbean?”

“No.”

“Orlando Bloom is in it. And Johnny Depp, too. It’s on video now.”

“I didn’t know that. I will go to the video store and get it…tonight!”

So, thanks to me, she’ll be watching Pirates of the Caribbean instead of The Passion of the Christ. I think this makes me the sort of person Jack Chick writes tracts about. I mean, I essentially said “Forget about that Jesus guy, check out this slightly gay pirate!” However, I’m pretty sure that had my student actually spent her hard-earned yen on Passion of the Christ tickets she would have been disappointed and possibly horrified. I know she wanted to see a movie that was in English so she could practice her listening skills, and I strongly suspect she believed Passion of the Christ was actually going to be a love drama…about Jesus.

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Honestly, though, I don’t think it’s a good idea to drop non-christians into the middle of The Passion under any circumstances.

I think you did the right thing. :slight_smile: But seriously, what’s up with Orlando Bloom? I mean, he looks like he’s barely pubescent - what’s up with that? I never understood the fascination with him… shrug

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You did the right thing. God only knows what would happen if a Japanese person was exposed to movie violence.

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Captain Jack Sparrow would approve! lurches off

Seriously, two over-blown quasi-historical would-be “epics” or the most fun genre movie in years? No contest!

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I like that. Iesus Christo is a much better name than Jesus Christ.

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Ask my 11y.o. She’d pay to watch him just stand there and convert oxygen to CO2.

Good on ya, Lamia! I’ll take a pirate flick over a snuff film any day. :wink:

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Maureen your 11y.o. and my cousin’s 11y.o. sound alike. Morgan has a life-sized cut-out of Orlando Bloom(as Legolas) in her bedroom. She even had her picture taken with it, so it would look as if they were standing side by side.

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Come on, people, the lady in question is in her late 20s, and should be wayyy over nancy boy here. He look not a day past 24, for crying out loud. I mean, has he started shaving yet?

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Late 20’s here, and I’d probably still take him to dinner and a movie, if ya get my drift, but I’d feel slightly creepy about it. But I’ve always loved the pretty boys.
Regarding the OP: my inner prankster giggles at the thought of this sweet Japanese lady sitting, horrified, through the Jesus Chainsaw Massacre movie. But ya did the right thing, Lamia.

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If this student had ever expressed any interest in Christianity I might have felt differently, but yeah, it didn’t seem like a good idea. If you have to think hard to remember Jesus’s name (I’m still impressed, if puzzled, that she knew it in Latin) you’re probably not going to enjoy a movie devoted to the painful last hours of his life. And it’s not even in English!

*Well, as young as he looks he doesn’t look much younger than the woman in question. Had she not told me her real age, I would have assumed she was in her early twenties. But in any event young Master Bloom is really hugely popular in Japan right now. I’m not sure why, but then again I’m not sure why he’s so popular in the US either. (Nothing against the guy, it’s just that I don’t see why he’s widely preferred over other young actors who seem just as talented and good-looking to me.) This month he’s on the cover of at least three of the big Japanese movie magazines, and several of my female students and coworkers have mentioned having a big crush on him.

I was about to write that one of these students is a housewife nearly old enough to be Bloom’s mother, but I just checked his age on the IMDB and he’s actually 27 years old!

Uh, yes, that was precisely my concern. That’s why I sent her off to see a Jerry Bruckheimer produced zombie/pirate movie instead. :rolleyes:

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Next time, invite her over and show her a video of Polly of the Circus. Everyone loves Marion Davies and Clark Gable!

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Please tell me you forgot to include a smiley of some sort, indicating that you were joking.

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Imho, it was pretty obvious Bryan was having a little joke.

Sometimes, smilies can be both a blessing and a curse.

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Precicely 3 days older than me, to be precice. And, no, I haven’t started shaving. :stuck_out_tongue:

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If I ever have kids, that’s exactly the kind of person I’d like them to be. :smiley:

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“You cheated!”
“…Judas.”

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“Clearly, you’ve never been to Singapore.”

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Oh, creepy…his birthday is three days before mine, too! Not the same year, though.

I can’t grow a beard either, but that’s probably just as well. :wink:

Back to PotC, (the pirate one), I’ve just realized that “I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically,” would be a lovely line to end an English class on.

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Well, next time I’ll make it more obvious and throw in a link to a website where you can buy tentacle-rape movies.

[sub]whhhooooooooooshhhhhh!!![/sub]

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Yay! Birthday buddy! ^__~

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