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In Reply to: On Art posted by Victor Khomenko on February 18, 2004 at 10:49:44:
It is not a matter for painting or building cars like 100 years ago, it is the quality and innovation, the fantasy that we, with childs eyes, may or may not discover. A variation on diverses themes, in the music or elsewhere! One thing must be clear, all arts ressemble to themselves with their helping hand to reach the divine in us, to transcend the commun in something exceptional; When being reach this goa lis then an " oeuvre dŽart. " For ever.
From day one in Mesopotany, through the Grotte of lascaux and so on, mankind was able to reach deep into the stars above us.
Theater and his poor parent ( I consider film a lesser art, showing already the decadence in the McDo time of our ) can reach us through the same artifice than music or writing and painting.
In one word quality never " outdate " and never will. The simple question, is then, what is quality? And again the answer is, what is moving us, sensually and intelectually speaking?
As for " LŽAtalante " versus Mr. Deeds it is like intellectualism versus romantisism, the same goal, different ways.
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That is probably the heart of the matter. We can't just say that everything produced as "art" at any period was indeed art. Art does presume innovation, but not just the innovation for the innovation's sake, but one that truly moves the society forward.Regarding the Mr. Deed's romantism... there is fine line with romantism - romantic things can indeed become corny in no time at all. I think that happens to Mr. Deeds to some degree. As the result I felt like I could leave the film at any moment... unlike the L'Atalante or the even earlier Battleship Potemkin.
Mr. Deed seems to reflect the current fashion for the naively "humanistic" films - I put it it quotes because in reality they were more warm fuzzy corny things than truly humanistic manifestations (well, to be fair they DID have humanism in them, just with a good coat of sugar).
So the things of true quality (Chaplin, Potemkin, etc) tend to stay fresh, and those that more or less reflect the prevailing fashion tend to feel dated.
Yes it is. Of course nobody can completely escape his time ...Read in a wider meaning " fashion, " and this is the crossroad for the artist who can extrapolate as much out of it in a kind of sublimation that he gives back trough his work. To our joy! Maybe less a forward movement, but rather a consciousness of the moment.
I would rather speak of a fresh presentation, more of an indivudual one.
Mr. Deeds is not my preferred Capra film so I will leave at it, suffice to say that it has all the " innocence " more that that, the naiveté that is just another way to combat the evil in us.
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