I will agree that it seems like they were stressing her skankification in the trailer, though maybe the movie is about more than that. I’m actually fine with that, but not if the movie is supposedly pro-American. Most people in India would see that trailer, and think “see, those perverts over there are immoral”.

But enough with the baseball caps.

When you have beautiful hair, let it loose.

(And what kind of Hindu name is Shelley?)

I prefer big screen type stories (”Narnia” was perfect) at the movies, so I’ll wait for this on video.

what kind of American are they turning her into?

A tart.

Hater who are undoubtedly also bitching about how put upon they are because Hollywood nevah makes movies with the conservative message they want to see…

So you’re a “hater” if you think this movie doesn’t look promising from a conservative perspective? What is this the DU or something? Get off the hyperbole already. And what’s conservative about turning a respectable young woman into a tart?

Subsunk

Even some women see this. My beloved grandmother was a product of her age and almost all her life she was vehemently opposed to mixed marriages. Toward the end of her life she began to support them. When asked why she said sadly that it was the only hope her grandsons and great-grandsons had of ever getting a decent wife.

As to the movie, I’m not sure the heroine is being skankified by wearing a mini-skirt as some suggest. I’ve spent half my life trying to get my wife to wear one.

dostrick on March 23, 2007 at 5:25 PM

Theirs a big difference between wearing a mini-skirt and flashing your hooha to the world. That’s what I mean by skank.

Amen to that! My wife is Indian, (Hindu, Punjabi)and I just adore her. Well educated, no sense of entitlement, very little materialism. Just very committed to being part of a mutually supportive relationship. Besides, there is nothing like watching a Bollywood production and having a native Hindi speaker point out all of the subtext going on.

cmdrsubfleet on March 23, 2007 at 8:01 PM

I’m glad you found someone who loves you without the drama. That was my biggest problem, always the need to create drama. Someone said does the gov’t issue babe visas. No, the gov’t makes it as hard as possible to bring a foreign woman into the US. Look up IMBRA. The feminists hate it when an American man finds happiness with a woman outside of the US.

If people only hated on things they’d actually SEEN, or about topics they actually knew something about, the whole Internet would shut down by next Tuesday.

Professor Blather on March 23, 2007 at 3:22 PM

Thanks for the laugh of the day!

Unfortunately, many American women just don’t make good wife material.

Amen to that! My wife is Indian, (Hindu, Punjabi)and I just adore her. Well educated, no sense of entitlement, very little materialism. Just very committed to being part of a mutually supportive relationship. Besides, there is nothing like watching a Bollywood production and having a native Hindi speaker point out all of the subtext going on.

I have a Russian wife and am extremely happy that she is nothing like the secular progressive American women I have dated in the past. Unfortunately, many American women just don’t make good wife material.

Bill C on March 23, 2007 at 2:52 PM

I’ll take your word for it Bill. I’ve noticed in my marriage and those of others that I’ve observed that many American women treat their men, not as men, but as under-performing investments.

Even some women see this. My beloved grandmother was a product of her age and almost all her life she was vehemently opposed to mixed marriages. Toward the end of her life she began to support them. When asked why she said sadly that it was the only hope her grandsons and great-grandsons had of ever getting a decent wife.

As to the movie, I’m not sure the heroine is being skankified by wearing a mini-skirt as some suggest. I’ve spent half my life trying to get my wife to wear one.

I’m shocked that so many haters actually took the time to spew their bile about a movie they’re not even willing to give a chance on this forum.

ScottMcC on March 23, 2007 at 2:34 PM

If people only hated on things they’d actually SEEN, or about topics they actually knew something about, the whole Internet would shut down by next Tuesday.

OK, so I haven’t seen it, but I’ve always wanted to be quoted in one of those ads.

#2: Opening in only 15 cities? I smell a flying rat, and it has two left wings.

#3: Now that’s what I call an immigrant!

#4: Does the US government issue “babe” visas? If no, why not?

#5: The idea that a woman with anti-American sentiments could come here and come to love the country makes it impossible for certain Hollywood reviewers to suspend disbelief. That says a lot more about Hollywood reviewers that it ever will about the movie.

This movie could also be called:

“Secularizing Shelley”

While the movie may well reflect the Americanization of Shelley, it also reflects the secular Objectification of Shelley’s womanly attributes.

Personally I find this clip a bit patronizing in reflecting Americans and immigrants as shallow.

Lawrence on March 23, 2007 at 11:41 AM

Foreign criticism of American culture is often on the mark and it is most obvious in the way that American women have replaced the feminine with the feminist. If this movie is going to extol the virtues of skankdom a la Paris Hilton then I am going to be sorely disappointed.

I have a Russian wife and am extremely happy that she is nothing like the secular progressive American women I have dated in the past. Unfortunately, many American women just don’t make good wife material.

Hater who are undoubtedly also bitching about how put upon they are because Hollywood nevah makes movies with the conservative message they want to see…

I am a bit concerned with the trailer advertising “by the Director of The Sopranos.” Episodes of “The Sopranos” occasionally play for laughs, but the humor is definitely not suitable for a romantic comedy.

I’ll see it if it makes its way to my corner of red-state America.

If this had *ANY* publicity from the Establishment Media, it would be a huge hit and make stars out of the younger cast members the way that Bend It Like Beckham did for Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra.

ScottMcC on March 23, 2007 at 12:10 PM

ScottMcC,

I enjoyed “Bend it Like Beckham” also. I enjoyed Parminder Nagra’s performance in that movie.

I also enjoyed Mississippi Masala, featuring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, an Indian Actress. That film featured Choudhury as “Meehna,” a young adult Indian woman who was born in Uganda, Africa, and whose family was exiled by Idi Amin, who confiscated all their property and land. The family emigrated to Mississippi, USA and kept a humble business, her mother running an herb shop, her father running a motel. Meehna cleaned the motel and worked the motel.

Denzel Washington owned a carpet cleaning business. The motel was among his clients.

The movie showed the foolishness of racism as Meehna was seen as a hot chick that Washington’s character, Demetrius Williams, was hanging with, but when things became serious Demetrius’ family and friends spewed their racist venom at Meehna and Demetrius. Who is HE to be with THAT girl? She is not one of them!

The twist is, Meehna is actually African, born in Africa. She had never been to India, and she identified Africa as her home. Meehna, her father, and her mother, were all homesick for Africa. They missed their African friends, the land, everything. The “African Americans” of Denzel Washington’s Demetrius’ circle of family and friends, had known only the USA as their home, they were never Africans, had never been to Africa, and were actually showing their errant thought process in this story.

The taboos that the Indian friends and family members of Meehna and her family held, as well as those of the blacks in the movie who judged Demetrius’ and Meehna’s love creates some good tension in this movie, one which is only resolved when Demetrius finds that the woman who others insist he disavow turns out the be the only person who truly sees him for who he is, and whose love and loyalty to him is true and to be cherished.

I enjoy Bollywood films. My wife and I and our children rent them fairly often from the Indian grocery store where we buy ingredients for cooking Indian at home. We even own quite a few Bollywood-Indian films, as well as Indian music, classical Hindustani, as well as modern Indian music, such as from Bollywood movie soundtracks.

Some are fun to watch, like Faana, and Main Hoon Na. Others are emotionally moving, such as the family oriented Kabe Kush, Kabe Gum, and Lagaan. Others are intense, like Don, featuring Sharuk Khan, one of my favorite actors. The actress, Kajol, is among my favorite actresses, quite charismatic and photogenic, and former Miss World India, Ashwaria Ray is exceptionally beautiful as well as a good actress.

Of course I would like to see this movie, Americanizing Shelley.

William

Not such a good sign: From the Editor of “Hitch” & “Stick It” above the title. That’ll reel ‘em in.

E.g., “The sign was supposed to read, ‘Spinal Tap AND Puppet Show.’”

Staunchly and unapologetically pro-Western, and it has Hollywood, liberal critics, and Iran in a freakin’ panty-wetting tizzy. It was more than worth shelling out the $$$ for, as will be the DVD when it comes out.

As for this movie, it looks kind of entertaining and the girl definitely is nice to look at.

I don’t think I’ll get excited just yet. While it’s refreshing to have a movie that doesn’t bash America, what kind of American are they turning her into?

Jezla on March 23, 2007 at 10:16 AM

It’s a start – more importantly is the fact that somebody not originally from here is more pro-American than the clowns in Hollywood that are from here.

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