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I have a thoroughly unreasonable catagory of critical assesment: THE PERFECT WORK OF ART.Examples:
Beethoven's 3rd Symphony
Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBYThat's just to name two. Now, the one film I think of that fits the catagory is HIGH NOON.
I'm sure there are others.
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but there are things that transport many people to a place other than the grocery store!
Like Touch of Evil or like Caddyshack?Each a masterpiece in it's own way.
Yeah, that's the idear. Don't know Caddyshack, but I could certainly understand why someone would call Touch of Evil a perfect work of art. I think a perfect work of art sets up its own terms and works inevitably within them. "Inevitability" is the key word here. You feel with a perfect work of art that it could be no other way. I avoid pointing out Citizen Kane only because I feel it needs to disappear for fifty years or so in order to regain a fresh look. Too many film students, auteur theorists, critical theorists, steeped in Barthe and Derida, et. all, have completely blindfolded Citizen Kane's audience. Touch of Evil, though. That's interesting. I will also submit Vertigo for your consideration.
Its metaphors are dull and frequent, especially in the opening section.clark
Don't matter. As Norman Mailer said somewhere and to this effect: It is surprising how many great novels are poorly written. True of other art forms. Beethoven is often crude and groping, Bruckner even more so. Witness the paintings of Van Gogh, yet I would include his "Road with Cypresses" among the Perfect Works of Art. Here's another:Miles Davis and co.'s KIND OF BLUE. Probably tired of hearing that one mentioned, eh?
***Witness the paintings of Van Gogh, yet I would include his "Road with Cypresses" among the Perfect Works of Art.Hmmmmmmm..... just what's is so "poorly written" about it?
Well, he used a brush ... and oil paint. Ever try to do that when you wanna write a good novel? Hell, I hear he even used his toes. What I meant, of course, with reference to Van Gogh, was that he was a crude draftsman and he rather slashed and gashed at the canvas in a lunatic heat and yet produced a rather delicate effect, a perfect work of art in fact.
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