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In Reply to: Movies I've Walked Out On -- A Questionnaire posted by clarkjohnsen on December 19, 2000 at 12:41:05:
walked out on Lawerance of Arabia!!! Did you also walk out on Sunset Boulvard? Or Some Like it Hot!? Those too were production infants...or What about the films of Sergei Eizenshtien (rudimentary at best)....I mean, Lawerance of Arabia is a compelling story of a simple man that has had greatness thrust upon him AND rises to the challange!I don't mean to berate you opinion (I have read your post and think you are insightful) but I guess I was blown away..to not enjoy Lawerance of Ariba is one thing but to walk out on the Lean classic is another!!!
I myself walked out of American Pie and End of Days...Why? They were bad on every level (if not insulting) of filmaking.
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...but as for David Lean, isn't it true that many people find his work precious and pretentious? And/or deliberately obscure? None of those descriptors appeals to me!I suppose Lawrence could be seen as "enjoyable" and certainly it did not embody the language and situations that make American Pie grotesque (I judge from previews). Nevertheless it was overblown and grandiose, and never captured the subtlety or subtext of its main character.
clark
the "overblown and grandiose" nature of the production created that element of "spectatorship" for which the viewer can hang is preconceived notions...IT IS the bigger than life characters that make it what is was...the grand scale is...well, Lean.I make the comparison ot Apocolypse Now....that film was wrought with surreal and fantasitc mis-en-sciene (sp?)...but it was that very element that brought the spectator closer to the Veit-Nam experiance. Coppola had to highten the senses towards craziness an obsurdity to draw us in to the crazyness and obsurdity of the war....much the same way Lean had to grandise "Lawerence"...we as spectators had to see him bigger that life in order to buy into the fantasy...if not we might as well watch Lethal Weapon XXII.....
Or, I guess, you and I need to agree to disagree...
Happy Holidays, jb
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