In Reply to: Re: Steven Speilberg posted by Victor Khomenko on January 11, 2003 at 06:05:00:
It seems to me, that he enjoys success, at being able to do what he wants to do...to make movies, and the movies he wants to make, with relative freedom, outside of whether they "succeed" finanicially.Something like this, in and of itself, engenders hostility, within the his peers of the film industry, and to those whose job it is to tell us what we should see and consume. 'How dare one person, have that much Freedom, and be able to do this', so goes their reasoning.
Well, it seems to me, he has earned that privilege, and to do so, in spite of what the arbiters of Taste, tell us is utter garbage, is admirable. Those who "do" something practice it and do it, and those who can't, Teach...as the saying goes. In the end it's all subjective, anyway.
We all know what we like, and there isn't anything or anyone that's going to tell us, what it is. Film is a subjective experience, that we enjoy, personally, not in some collective sense. The Artists who touch our Soul, deserve to be elevated to the level of the Gods...because that's as close, most of us, will be to The Gods.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Steven Speilberg - mikenyc 09:15:37 01/11/03 (11)
- Re: Steven Speilberg - Victor Khomenko 09:38:16 01/11/03 (10)
- Re: Steven Speilberg - Analog Scott 18:10:32 02/17/03 (0)
- But what, precisely.... - Joe S 18:24:10 01/11/03 (8)
- Art IS buisness. nt - patrickU 07:52:09 01/12/03 (1)
- But business.... - Joe S 14:43:22 01/12/03 (0)
- Last time I checked... - Victor Khomenko 19:41:05 01/11/03 (5)
- Niche market.... - Joe S 14:45:33 01/12/03 (4)
- Re: Niche market.... - Victor Khomenko 14:56:41 01/12/03 (3)
- I think it's easy.... - Joe S 10:19:49 01/13/03 (2)
- Re: I think it's easy.... - Victor Khomenko 13:19:52 01/13/03 (1)
- Re: I think it's easy.... - Joe S 18:40:10 01/13/03 (0)