Basically, just get the Mind Your Language box-set and watch it nine times: that's what Salman Rushdie did.
Even if he wants to change, the "typical" language boxes him into being -- in this case, being a stereotype -- with no room to become.
The sell to viewers is that Walter Iuzzolino, chief creative officer of Global Service Network (GSN), Channel 4's partner in the scheme, has made a personal selection of his favourites from 3,500 hours of foreign-language box sets.
As might be expected in such an unscientific poll of contemporary moviegoers and bookstore browsers, the largest number of votes went to the most recent foreign-language box-office favorites.
It is the setting of Mr. Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," which received 10 Oscar nominations, including one for Mr. Lee's direction, and has become the biggest foreign-language box-office hit in American movie history.
Guardian film editor Catherine Shoard said: "We're proud to give the top honour to a film we all felt so passionately about; it's the embodiment of what these awards are trying to do - celebrate brilliant, boundary-pushing cinema, regardless of genre, language or box office, and put our readers at the heart of the debate".
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Here is an example of a famous riddle from The Hobbit that uses simple, descriptive language: "A box without hinges, key, or lid, / Yet golden treasure inside is hid".
