Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on February 5, 2002 at 05:21:18

In Reply to: Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again posted by Andrew T. on February 4, 2002 at 16:44:57:

Thank you Andrew, the fun is all mine. Always appreciate the guidance in the areas in which I am not to advanced. Although I am not entirely new to Asian cinematography, I have to admit that it is definitely a very rich area that deserves more attention on my part.

On that taste issue, it is often the matter of education. When you see someone praising a particular weak work, it is often true that that individual is not too familiar with the volumes of great work that has been produced in all kinds of genre in many, many countries around the world. So you end up with an American teenager who has seen every sequell to Friday the 13th and not much more.

This is true of any art form - paintings, music, dance or anything else.

This is not a phenomenon unique to America. But unfortunately the American situation is aggravated for two reasons. One is its isolation and the mostly justified self-pride. That self-pride often leads to the idea that one should only be concerned with the local production.

And the second - the inescapable fact that Hollywood has created and developed to the highest degree the art of making movies just for revenue. I don't think there is any doubt that the American movies generate the largest cash flow, while at the same time being on the steady decline in the areas of their artistic content.

They tend to adress the simpler and simpler and yet simpler emotions, the most superficial ones at the expense of more deep and fundamental.

Just how many times can you recreate the silly story about a lovable underdog attaining a competely undeserved wictory at the final moments of the boring film? Some of that is deeply rooted in the American phyche and probably shall continue being with us forever.

Anyway... what is YOUR take on the In The Realm of Senses? Did you find it artistic in the unique sense, or just plain gratuitously vulgar?

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Topic - OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Victor Khomenko 12:05:23 02/03/02 (14)

** sigh ** One day... - Aurelio S. 11:04:38 02/04/02 (2)

Re: ** sigh ** One day... - Victor Khomenko 12:04:35 02/04/02 (1)

Good stores...... Just checked them... - Victor Khomenko 12:07:05 02/04/02 (0)

Aargh...this is frustrating. - Aurelio S. 08:40:21 02/05/02 (0)

More options... - Victor Khomenko 08:50:06 02/05/02 (0)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Andrew T. 14:42:07 02/03/02 (8)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Victor Khomenko 04:37:05 02/04/02 (7)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Andrew T. 15:54:03 02/04/02 (6)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Victor Khomenko 16:05:42 02/04/02 (5)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Andrew T. 16:44:57 02/04/02 (4)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Victor Khomenko 05:21:18 02/05/02 (0)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Andrew T. 09:40:34 02/05/02 (2)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Victor Khomenko 11:43:58 02/05/02 (1)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Andrew T. 12:00:59 02/05/02 (0)

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Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Victor Khomenko 05:21:18 02/05/02 (0)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Andrew T. 09:40:34 02/05/02 (2)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Victor Khomenko 11:43:58 02/05/02 (1)

Re: OK, Andrew T, you've done it again - Andrew T. 12:00:59 02/05/02 (0)

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