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Re: Movies: story vs. art

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Victor, you're a much more sophisticated observer than I am. But I must disagree a bit here. It's true that if a story is not well portrayed by the actors and director, then it's not impressive. However, the story is really the subtance and all the actors and director do is to illustrate it just right, no more or less. Over(under) acting, over(under) camera works would only take away from the story.

I can understand why one might rather see a well-excuted film than a badly portrayed story. However, a well executed film without a story to tell is at most interesting. A great movie, such as Dr. Zhivago, is one with a great story to tell; and it's told well. Taking away the story from it, i'm not so sure if it's still as good.




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