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Being bilingual, I can testify that the original version is immensely more funny than the Hollywood remake. Take the case of 'The Birdcage', a remake of the French comedy 'La cage aux folles' made some 20 years earlier. Hollywood has become so politically-correct that it now only dares make fun of a WASP male in a business suit, and of no one else. Here, fun is made of sexual stereotypes, of the British, of the French and, most of all, of the Germans, Nazis in this case. ![]() I believe that the answer is that the basis of all comedy is to make fun of someone. ![]() Why is this movie so funny? And why is it universally judged to be so by people who don't understand French culture? I have asked myself this question while watching it for the Nth time and while asking myself why most Hollywood 'comedies' made today are not funny at all.
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