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In Reply to: Wait a sec . . . posted by Troy on January 15, 2004 at 08:40:32:
I feel the all-too-familiar defensive notes rising in your voice... that is bad.Me... I call them as I see them, no matter where they come from. So just recently I slammed a French film (Kaka full blast rating) and a Russian one, and today praised an American film.
To me American movie industry represents just a small portion of the world muvies. And not necessarily the most interesting, just voluminous. Apparently to you it is opposite, but that is your issue.
Funny, I did't hear Patrick scream bloody murder over my criticism of some French works - you should take some tips from him.
One would be foolish to deny the existance of very definite general (or typical) flavors for movies made in different parts of the world.
Russian films... French... Italian... Japanese... Polish... German... American... Swedish... Spanish... Chinese... Czech... Finnish... Brazilian... Mexican... Hong-Kong... Korean... Belgian... Norwegian...
...they all have strong local flavors. Some tend to be much more insightful - guess which ones? Some tend to gravitate to simplicity and fast action... guess who?
But there was good lesson to be learned from perusing the Cannes lists I gave you - as they provide a good glimps at the world as the whole... something typically not visible to an American viewer, but something that is usually VERY obvious to the movie buffs in other parts of the world. If you keep denying this you are falling behind.
I agree that Dancer in the Dark is hardly a great film, but that was just the jury vote - the list of runner ups speaks for itself.
Last thing you want is to adapt that silly America=World attitude.
The rhetorics in your last paragraph? I was used to us when living in the USSR, thank you. But that was in the totalitarian society.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Wait a sec . . . - Victor Khomenko 10:56:39 01/15/04 (5)
- Re: Wait a sec . . . - Troy 13:41:18 01/15/04 (4)
- Re: Wait a sec . . . - patrickU 07:54:46 01/16/04 (0)
- Re: Wait a sec . . . - Victor Khomenko 15:04:06 01/15/04 (2)
- A bit of clarification and more aggitated gesticualtion - Troy 16:32:42 01/15/04 (1)
- I shall leave this final word to you. (nt) - Victor Khomenko 09:09:35 01/16/04 (0)
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