In Reply to: What Hollywood will never understand posted by Victor Khomenko on February 9, 2004 at 11:34:57:
Hollywood producers, like Shakepseare in Elizabethan England, are in the business of making money, unlike much of the state-supported film you admire (how ironic you love stuff which is produced in a manner which you despise!). Horrible bastards!
Of course, you choose to paint tinseltown as deviant-based entertainment, forgetting "Nemo," "LOTR," "American Splendor," "My Architect," and hundreds of others (not a rape or murder in sight in LIT, either).
Ok, Vic, we know you don't like Hollywood.
You like European films.
Your mind is closed.
You can no more appreciate most American art than an American can appreciate Japanese kabuki.
But consider this: art doesn't exist in a vacuum. This IS the most violent, drug-riddled country on earth. Should an artist ignore this?
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Follow Ups
- What you will never understand. - tinear 20:28:36 02/09/04 (23)
- Re: What you will never understand. - Victor Khomenko 06:13:46 02/10/04 (22)
- Animal House, which you obviously never saw, was a send-up of - tinear 08:29:04 02/10/04 (11)
- Your presumptuousness is deafening - Victor Khomenko 08:39:29 02/10/04 (10)
- Maybe I'm presumptuous also - J 08:58:11 02/11/04 (9)
- But of course you ain't - Victor Khomenko 09:24:30 02/11/04 (8)
- What? No Tolkein? :-) (nt) - mvwine 12:06:31 02/11/04 (1)
- LOL! I guess I was past my "young adult" stage by then. (nt) - Victor Khomenko 12:16:36 02/11/04 (0)
- Re: But - rico 11:18:21 02/11/04 (0)
- I'm not impressed - J 10:31:33 02/11/04 (4)
- Re: It's clear... - rico 11:20:13 02/11/04 (3)
- Re: It's clear... - J 11:27:39 02/11/04 (2)
- Don't worry about the Ivy League - Victor Khomenko 12:00:51 02/11/04 (1)
- Re: Don't worry about the Ivy League - orejones 12:35:33 02/11/04 (0)
- "...one of the most violent societies on Earth." That's if... - clarkjohnsen 07:45:30 02/10/04 (9)
- Point well taken - Victor Khomenko 07:49:28 02/10/04 (8)
- Re: Ã think that you were right in the first place... - patrickU 09:24:46 02/10/04 (7)
- Yeah, America is much more violent than, say . . . - Troy 09:54:18 02/10/04 (6)
- Re: Petain´s France..Slavery in the USA....Boers war...... - patrickU 10:37:49 02/10/04 (0)
- Would you mind comparing apples to apples? Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Russia happened a few decades ago... - orejones 10:28:19 02/10/04 (4)
- Was the 20th Century the middle ages? - Troy 11:01:55 02/10/04 (3)
- Please don't change the subject. - orejones 11:17:31 02/10/04 (2)
- I didn't - Troy 13:07:28 02/10/04 (1)
- Re: I didn't - Victor Khomenko 13:23:17 02/10/04 (0)