Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on June 27, 2002 at 09:50:14

In Reply to: Some responses ... posted by TA on June 27, 2002 at 08:30:44:

... it doesn't alter the fact that suspension of disbelief requires an active diligence on the part of the Director to make his story "bulletproof." The best crafted movies, regardless of philosophical content, respect the audiences intelligence by not pandering to emotions to cover weak plot points. This is why I feel that Spielberg is all too frequently a sloppy Director; that doesn't mean that I don't love many of his films, but there is a frustrating tendency on his part to rely on gut level suspense to carry the day in most of the films he directs.

BTW, don't get me started on Ron Howard; his willingness to play it safe compromises his artistry. A Beautiful Mind is an excellent film that effectively captures for the average viewer what it must be like to suffer with severe pschizophrenia, but it could've been so much better and so much RICHER with a little less political correctness and a lot more historical/biographical accuracy. Unfortunately, Ron Howard isn't a very visionary Director, he has always been politely mainstream and will apparently always be a solely commercially motivated filmmaker. The problem with treating bigraphical material as fodder for political correctness is that it can become an exercise in revisionism that's no better than propaganda.

AuPh