Re: Which Nation Saves The World?

Michael Urban wrote:
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> jessica_smith_nyc  <uwalum2002@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I think the only one that I know of is Independence Day when all the
>> countries around the world united to fight the spaceships over their
>> cities and made it a true global Independence Day.....
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> Oh please.  "The Americans have a plan!"  "It's about bloody time!"
> 
> It would have been more tedious, but perhaps more interesting if
> the cracking of the alien computer had required expertise from all
> around the world, communicating via Morse code or whatever.  I
> hear the Chinese are rather good at this sort of thing.

Part of Ronald Emmerich's style is to have the heroes always be 
representative of some idealized multiethnic American culture.

In "10,000 B.C.," even the good guy caveman tribe looks like an average 
cross-section of Americans from Southern California.  This Paleolithic 
cavewoman is named Evolet.  She comes from prehistoric Beverly Hills:

http://i31.tinypic.com/2zfocwl.jpg


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