Yeah, the idiosyncracies of foreign countries sometimes become an unexpected muse for us. Like when I watched 7 Samurai (the old one) and fell in love with the pace of the movie, the subtleties that can be experienced if done correctly are amazing, unlike the uber-fast paced hollywood movies which give me panic attacks more than anything else due to their wanton need to over exaggerate every single idea and concept to its most extreme...
Take the fast and furious movies, I'm sure many of you will be like "yeah those are good"... but you ever seen real Arabian street races? Drifting? How about young lads in sandals and thowb, surfing the roads whilst hanging onto a car door? or how about this:
Crazy, yet you won't get a scene like that in no hollywood movie - and this is a real scene, not faked - whose really fast and furious now? :D they changed the wheels on the car whilst it was on road balancing on two wheels - that's really like - whoa dudes, you just made Vin Diesel look like he's playing with matchbox cars...
Vin Diesel can eat roti and grow a goatee for all I care :D
Scimi