Originally posted by: theredbaronSame thing with Australian movies in the US -
The Castle, a great Australian comedy (with its comedy based entirely in how ridiculously over-Australian the main characters are), had a lot of the jokes and slang changed for American audiences. I don't know whether or not American audiences found it funny or not, but Americans that I knew who visited here had a blast watching it in its purest form. The thing with some of these movies is, if you don't get the slang, you won't get the jokes - and in the case of
The Castle - the slang
was the joke. Of course, you Poms wouldn't have a problem with it, and nor do we with your stuff. Australians too are familiar with most forms of Western slang, due to frequent exposure to both American and British media (although a British ex-patriat in Australia recently invited me to his "gaff" which I could only determine from the context, meant his "house"!).
I've wondered recently if they made any changes to the American version of
Wolf Creek - boy did that do wonders for Australia's tourism industry - now
I don't even want to trek out to central Australia!
But what I'm talking about is different - in your example, the movie was shown in one form to native australians, and another form to foreign Americans. What I am talking about is not 2 different versions for two different markets but one version that tries to cater to both markets- we get the same version the americans get, but it has been written and crafted for the american market from the offset. A British TV show made in Britain but in an American style. It's like they would rather please America than please the people in teh country it actually came from. Which is probably true, come to think of it.
Originally posted by: HotRodDamn me and my wild, reckless youth. Just because I done a few naughty things when I was younger, looks like I'll have to stay in this bloody shit hole of a country!
The trick is to not get caught 
