And the obvious answer is that the US is just too big a market to be ignored, so we get the luxury of being recalcitrant.
We're getting there. Liters are close enough to quarts that we use them interchangeably. Millimeters are tiny enough that who the hell cares what they're called?
There's also some inherent deficiencies with Metric units. E.g., Celsius degrees are farther apart than Fahrenheit degrees, which makes it less useful.
"In fact, inspiration is too mild a term; personality theft is more like it. "
Personality theft? He was devoid of personality after it was stolen?
Authors have taken inspiration from real people since before pen was set to paper. The idea that everyone owns everything they ever said is seriously problematic.
This isn't really about any individual movie meeting the criteria. It's about how few do. That's the interesting fact.
Also, the first question is the important one. Really, you can forget the rest of it. Usually you have two or more male main characters and a chick. (The Smurfette Syndrome.) It's very rare you get the reverse. Why is that?
Now it may be as simple as women deferring to their boyfriend's/husband's interests, just so they can get a date night (which I suspect is actually part of it) or it may be that the largely male execs are more interested in movies that fail this test (also likely part of it.)
Also, Douglas is quite the renaissance man.
We're getting there. Liters are close enough to quarts that we use them interchangeably. Millimeters are tiny enough that who the hell cares what they're called?
There's also some inherent deficiencies with Metric units. E.g., Celsius degrees are farther apart than Fahrenheit degrees, which makes it less useful.
Personality theft? He was devoid of personality after it was stolen?
Authors have taken inspiration from real people since before pen was set to paper. The idea that everyone owns everything they ever said is seriously problematic.
Also, the first question is the important one. Really, you can forget the rest of it. Usually you have two or more male main characters and a chick. (The Smurfette Syndrome.) It's very rare you get the reverse. Why is that?
Now it may be as simple as women deferring to their boyfriend's/husband's interests, just so they can get a date night (which I suspect is actually part of it) or it may be that the largely male execs are more interested in movies that fail this test (also likely part of it.)