Cinema de Banlieue!
by joon
On July 9th, the Roberts house in California was invaded by frenchies. Crazy frenchies yelling during the soccer world cup finale.
Well, I don't love soccer but I can spend a finale yelling if I am with people. I like the crowd more than the match in itself and what I like the most is my dad yelling during a match.
He can wake up a deaf! When I was 16, well I always was ending up downstairs watching my dad and brother watching a match instead of doing my homework or just trying to chill out in my bedroom. Because you can't do anything else than being with them. They are loud and crazy and that was fun to see that again!
that was especially fun to hear old french expressions as :
- Oh, la vache ! (oh, the cow) Don't teach it to children.
- Cinema de banlieue (Suburb cinema/theater) When we say of a child that "il fait son cinema", it makes his cinema, it means that he acts something like being sad or hurt to obtain something.
"banlieue" means "suburb" but suburbs in french are closer to harlem than nice and wealthy suburb here. Suburbs are where we put poor, non educated and of course immigrants.
"cinema de banlieue" yelled during a match when a opposant soccer player is on the ground means "mother F...", you act being hurt and it is not even that good. We don't believe you! Bad cinema quality!
God, we laughed so much with this expression, because it doesn't really mean anything, this is old but at the same time, this means so much!
I have others my dad said that day but I have to remember them.
Posted on July 14, 2006 | Comments (0)
