"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
11/13/2015 at 09:09 • Filed to: None
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"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
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Gung Ho is a movie about a Japanese auto maker opening a plant in the US. But they used cars from an Italian auto maker that were made in Argentina.
ttyymmnn
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
11/13/2015 at 09:27 |
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Global economy, yo.
AndyG_UK
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
11/13/2015 at 09:53 |
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We already knew this but thanks.
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Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> AndyG_UK
11/13/2015 at 10:07 |
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Is that the royal form of we?
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AndyG_UK
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
11/13/2015 at 10:14 |
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Well of course, I am British afterall, it’s we always refer to ourselves! lol
Nisman
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
11/13/2015 at 10:16 |
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Is it a good movie? Never heard of it.
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Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
> Nisman
11/13/2015 at 10:24 |
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Not bad, not great, not really a car movie. Really places the auto industry during the ‘80s though.
Brian, The Life of
> Nisman
11/13/2015 at 11:00 |
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Yes. It’s a nice time capsule view into the culture clashy feel of US-Japanese interactions during the ‘80s when we were convinced Japan was going to clean our clocks, economically.
ranwhenparked
> Nisman
11/13/2015 at 18:36 |
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There was a spin-off TV series too that had some of the same Japanese actors. I think it lasted, like, half a season.
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ranwhenparked
> Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
11/13/2015 at 18:39 |
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Yeah, Fiat had quit the US market entirely by the time the movie was released, and we never got the Regata or 147 in the first place, so they looked convincingly “foreign” and different for US audiences.
I think there were some rebadged Plymouth Horizons used too, for the scenes that were actually filmed in the US, which was less convincing, but obviously easier and cheaper than shipping some of those Fiats north.