Re: Films About 9/11
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- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 10:46:59 -0700
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On 2008-05-31 09:32:00 -0700, Nicole <paper_nest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Knowing that Titanic was a ship that sunk is quite different from
watching the film which won 7 Oscars and revolutionized cinema and
once again, you really can't compare 9/11 to Titanic apart from the
fact that they involved mass deaths, one was in the centre of New
york, the other in the middle of the freezing Atlantic ocean. I just
find the films pointless, are we supposed to cry at them?
Apparently you've missed the entire point of movie-making. While entertainment is one goal, another one is to use the form to examine and explore the human condition, and that includes human response to tragedy and crisis. Courage, cowardice, altruism, venality. Perhaps you've heard of them.
Or perhaps not. What comes through in your posts is judgment based on emotion (obscure emotion, at that) and arrogance.
Some of us go to movies for the purpose of exploring our own responses to the crises portrayed.
Whats the
reason from dragging it back up so soon? With America's level of
patriotism I can believe that it is literally just for Uncle Sam and
not money, they are patriotic to the point of sheer fantatism and
blindness.
No one invests millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours for patriotism. Movies are made to make money...and on occasion to express the artistic sensibilities of the writers/producers/director. What world do you live in? Your perception of America and Americans as blindly patriotic imbeciles is skewed, bigoted, and ignorant.
If you don't like movies about contemporary tragedies, or modern wars, don't watch them. The marketplace will judge whether they are commercially viable, and history will judge whether or not the movies themselves stand the test of time as artist vehicles.
Nicole, it seems like all your recent posts are full of (negatively) judgmental pronoucements about Americans and America and what we're doing wrong. It's verging on trolling, posting just to get a reaction from people.
How about you tell us what you're reading lately? Or maybe tell us something *positive* about your world.
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