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Brett W Copeland wrote:



 On the other hand, surely these movies would
> be more authentic when communicated in Euskera as long
> as the use of Euskera in the movie actually reflects the
> usage of Euskera in Euskalherria.  Let's face it:  many Basques
> speak French or Spanish too and will use these languages
> depending on the setting.  Would a movie showing this cultural
> use of French or Spanish be any less Basque?

** That has happened in some movies like "Escape from Segovia"
(Segoviatiko Ihesa). Sure we could have all sorts of code-switching,
malapropisms, solecisms, brutal pidgin mixings as well as pure,
unadulterated Basque and Spanish and, you failed to mention, perhaps out
of ignorance, Gascon as well.
Nevertheless, this does not happen in Vasco movies today. Only Spanish
or Castilian are used, such is their bilingualism. However, the
Erdaldoons can have their Espanish films about Vascos and Vascorros. I
think that I speak for the rest of the Euskaldunak that what we want is
not an Erdaldoon's vision of Pais Vasco but an authentic Euskaldun voice
and vision of the same reality, Euskal Herria. One (wo)man's Pais Vasco
is another's Euskal Herria (or Basque Country or Pays Basque or
Baskenland, or Ouaskonia or Strana Baskov, etc.)

Mikel Morris,
who really wants to see real Basque cinema in real Basque and on a
really regular basis