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In Reply to: Re: hard not to comment art/film without considering sociaty in general...... posted by Victor Khomenko on May 25, 2004 at 12:13:48:
I would be the LAST person to "call you dumb", Victor! First, I am not the smartest person in the world by a long shot. Also, I do not purposely try to post things to insult anyone. I enjoy reading the different perspectives on film that people have.If I were to chance upon "Alexander Nevsky" without knowing anything about when it was made, what was going on between Germany and the Soviet Union, etc., I too would probably take it for only great film about a leader who leads his people into battle to repel a fearsome enemy. In fact, that is the way I enjoy it 98% of the time when I see it. I allow the context of its making to influence my enjoyment (and it only brings an additional smile to my face) the other 2% of the time!
Perhaps your experience of "Alexander Nevsky" is close to mine with "Citizen Kane". I chanced upon it late one night as a young teenager. My mother just said that it was an old film by Orson Welles about a newspaper publisher. She did not then (and maybe still does not) know anything about William Randolph Hearst,etc.
So I watched this movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was another six years or so before I knew the background behind it!I saw "Philadelphia" once. I did not hate it, but I never HAVE to see it again. "Nevsky", on the other hand, I will HAVE to get the Criterion edition! In fact, I am planning to get the Criterion edition of all of Eisenstien's sound films (at least the ones that Stalin's ministers allowed him to make)!
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Follow Ups
- Re: hard not to comment art/film without considering sociaty in general...... - Gee LP 12:56:49 05/25/04 (2)
- Some observations - Victor Khomenko 14:30:34 05/25/04 (0)
- Re: Good and fair post. That makes fun! nt - patrickU 13:25:54 05/25/04 (0)
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