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I saw a movie in a theater A History of Violence for the first time last night. The other English-language movies that were playing were Chicken Little, Saw II, and The Legend of Zorro. One of these was dubbed and the others (including Violence) were subtitled. I was told by someone here a while ago that around 50% or more of the movies in the theaters here are American movies, usually subtitled but sometimes dubbed.
I went with a German guy, same age as me, who is new at the school this week and in the same class as me. He wanted to go to Iguatemi Shopping, which is the biggest shopping center here (and probably in Bahia, we also surmised). After speaking with some locals at the bus stop we determined that it was muchfaster ("Mais rapido, mais rapido ..." they said) to just grab a cab, which we did. It was about a 10-minute drive and cost us something like $R20, which translates to maybe $8-9US.
We wandered around for a while looking at stuff, talking about differences in German, American, and Brazilian culture, staring at women, and eventually making our way up to the theater. We got tickets and stopped to in the food court which had a Sushi stand.
Now don't get me wrong. I love this place. And I might be a bit of a snob when it comes to Sushi and/or Japanese food. Both are very popular here, but the quality of it sucks, and last night was relatively typical of my overall Japanese-food experience here. Part of the reason it's so popular is that there's a lot of Japanese-descended people living in Brazil. You'd think they would take more care in promoting their culture, but whatever.
We got in the theater, which was very nice (stadium seating and a great sound system) but which had the air conditioning cranked and was absolutely the coldest place I've ever been in in Brazil. I don't know what the thinking is there. Maybe they're trying to keep you awake. Our movie was good (it was my second time seeing it), but maybe for something like Saw II they don't want people dozing off. Who knows. It wouldn't be the weirdest thing I've seen here :).
I went with a German guy, same age as me, who is new at the school this week and in the same class as me. He wanted to go to Iguatemi Shopping, which is the biggest shopping center here (and probably in Bahia, we also surmised). After speaking with some locals at the bus stop we determined that it was muchfaster ("Mais rapido, mais rapido ..." they said) to just grab a cab, which we did. It was about a 10-minute drive and cost us something like $R20, which translates to maybe $8-9US.
We wandered around for a while looking at stuff, talking about differences in German, American, and Brazilian culture, staring at women, and eventually making our way up to the theater. We got tickets and stopped to in the food court which had a Sushi stand.
Now don't get me wrong. I love this place. And I might be a bit of a snob when it comes to Sushi and/or Japanese food. Both are very popular here, but the quality of it sucks, and last night was relatively typical of my overall Japanese-food experience here. Part of the reason it's so popular is that there's a lot of Japanese-descended people living in Brazil. You'd think they would take more care in promoting their culture, but whatever.
We got in the theater, which was very nice (stadium seating and a great sound system) but which had the air conditioning cranked and was absolutely the coldest place I've ever been in in Brazil. I don't know what the thinking is there. Maybe they're trying to keep you awake. Our movie was good (it was my second time seeing it), but maybe for something like Saw II they don't want people dozing off. Who knows. It wouldn't be the weirdest thing I've seen here :).
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