{"id":1484,"date":"2007-02-14T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/bon-cop-bad-cop-et-patriotisme\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:38:48","slug":"bon-cop-bad-cop-et-patriotisme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/bon-cop-bad-cop-et-patriotisme\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon cop, bad cop et patriotisme"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Culture is what binds society together. To take an obvious example, how many billions does Ottawa pour into Quebec every year to persuade French Canadians that they benefit from being part of Canada? How much effect can those billions have when French Canadians watch only two kinds of TV &#8212; French Canadian, and American? Now, how much does a movie like Bon Cop \/ Bad Cop do to make French Canadians feel like, yeah, we have our differences, but we belong together?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&rsquo;t have to do very much at all to justify its expense. Bon Cop \/ Bad Cop cost the Canadian taxpayer $7.5 million (probably less now that the movie was such a success). If it makes the Qu\u00c3\u00a9becois even .5% more patriotic about Canada, it&rsquo;s a bargain.<\/p>\n<p>Culture is not a luxury good. Culture is what creates society. And culture is the best bargain any government can buy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/complicationsensue.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/when-i-hear-word-pistol-i-reach-for-my.html\">Alex Esptein<\/a> est un sc\u00c3\u00a9nariste d&rsquo;origine am\u00c3\u00a9ricaine qui vit et travaille \u00c3\u00a0 Montr\u00c3\u00a9al depuis plusieurs ann\u00c3\u00a9es. Il a \u00c3\u00a9t\u00c3\u00a9 un des quatre sc\u00c3\u00a9naristes \u00c3\u00a0 l&rsquo;oeuvre sur le film <em>Bon cop Bad cop<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture is what binds society together. To take an obvious example, how many billions does Ottawa pour into Quebec every year to persuade French Canadians that they benefit from being part of Canada? How much effect can those billions have when French Canadians watch only two kinds of TV &#8212; French Canadian, and American? Now,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/bon-cop-bad-cop-et-patriotisme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bon cop, bad cop et patriotisme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}