How are Americans portrayed in French movies?

Question

In American movies French are often portrayed as chain smoking, arrogant and rude to the people around them. Also love to drink wine and complain about non French. I notice lately they are portrayed as arrogant until threatened with violence, then they run off scared.

Answer 1

Probably like technology obsessed,trend following,obese people? Just guessing.

Answer 2

French movies most of the times scenarize french characters -

  

   Stereotypes are stupid - but it seems that it goes like kind of neurosis - there are people who are stereotype-addicted -

Overexagerated-stereotypes are underground propaganda tools, they are as old as the world and enable easier manipulation of the crowds and armed forces to murder or dominate other countries - Irak is the best example of a martyrized country - martyrized by robots - and self-satisfied ignorance.

I pray for the sake of their souls - but seems they have none -

Bye bye

Answer 3

In France, the cliché an American guy is a fat man, in a pick-up with a stetson...Very religious and keen on guns and beer and Mc Donald's...That is the cliché of the American from the country. Maybe a texan, dunno.

Because, the American from New-York is portrayed as a good fellow, just like a british from The City, you see what i mean ? French people are arrogant, it's a fact, but strangely the New-Yorker is appreciated here. He is seen as wealthy, young and s**y, intelligent...I think we french people are watching too many american TV shows...lol

Answer 4

i'm sorry i dont exactly answer your question, but i remember a movie, i dont really like, GODZILLA...

at a moment, the french captain (played by Jean Reno), before his men go for a secret mission and look as american people in the street, gives them chewing-gum. the american hero, friend of the french captain, asks why. and the french answers : "that looks american".

Answer 5

Fat arrogant guys with no respect for the french traditions, always eating hamburgers and drinking coca-cola. Funny, we also picture them as being violent toward people but they run off in the face of danger...

but there isn't much americans in french movies...

Answer 6

There's very few Americans in French movies, usually they are portrayed as clueless faced with French culture or/and arrogantly certain of their superiority over the French, and usually ending up in a bad position because of that arrogance.

What we do have is plenty of American series (NCIS, Dr House, Bones, CSI, without a trace, ER, plenty of comedies....) and American films, which gives the gamut of portrays between high brow intelligent sensitive American to stupid fat ultra religious gun wielding and ignorant American so people here might be more aware that Americans are real people like us. The funny thing is that some of those series also mention sometimes the French, usually by using one or many of those stereotypes you mention so that we are told by characters we like that we are a bunch of stupid, arrogant, back stabbers, cowards etc... which leaves one wondering how stupid the writers are and if the Americans really believe that about us.

Answer 7

There's no american in  french movies because they don't play the same game that american play about the fact 'french are like this like that, french talk about american and sometimes laugh at them but they don't really care about them at all...

Answer 8

It is same like whites being portrayed as fumbling morons in black movies. If you disagree watch a few and say it isn't so...