In Reply to: Re: Mystic River is filed with The English Patient posted by jamesgarvin on March 15, 2005 at 10:25:23:
I'm not sure in what spirit you wrote this. But if these are assumptions about me, let me elaborate: the aformentioned movies were designed, not necessarily conspiratorilly, but I can imagine some wide-eyed discussions had by their producers, to draw the middle-brow movie goer who holds exactly the kind of dumb notions of sophistication characterized (or caricatured or on display) in your post above. They're for the cultural equivalent of Sunday Christians: they're people who periodically go through the motions as a matter of almost studied dilligence rather than out of genuine interest or desire. "There, I went to church: I am pious" ; "There, I went to this much-lauded movie; and agreeing that it is good, I have participated, self-affrimingly, in a cultural moment that I expect to be reaffirmed (I will tune in and watch with much anticipation) at the upcoming academy awards."I don't happen to like baseball, but I like basketball. Why go to a basketball game when you can go to a museum? Well, you could visit every major museum in New York City for the price of a nosebleader seat at the Garden. And the Knicks suck.
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Follow Ups
- Huh? - Bulkington 12:08:07 03/15/05 (19)
- Re: Huh? - jamesgarvin 13:32:48 03/15/05 (18)
- Re: Huh? - Bulkington 13:40:09 03/16/05 (2)
- The masses are too dumb, not smart enough to know what is good and not good. - rhizomatic 13:31:03 03/16/05 (13)
- Re: The masses are too dumb, not smart enough to know what is good and not good. - jamesgarvin 15:55:18 03/16/05 (12)
- Don't you get it? Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon practically *stink* of high art... ;-) ... nt - clarkjohnsen 11:20:36 03/17/05 (4)
- Hung up on the term? - rhizomatic 11:35:22 03/17/05 (3)
- 'Scuse me, not my term. I repeated it in jest. Lighten up. And as I said elsewhere... - clarkjohnsen 11:42:12 03/17/05 (2)
- Did you like the book? - rhizomatic 11:49:55 03/17/05 (1)
- I thought it was supposed to be easier to make good movies out of bad books - Bulkington 12:24:15 03/17/05 (0)
- Well, no... - rhizomatic 17:34:57 03/16/05 (6)
- Re: Well, no... - jamesgarvin 09:26:56 03/17/05 (5)
- And let us not forget, it's scripted from a frikkin' BOOK by a frikkin' MYSTERY writer. How much higher can art go? nt - clarkjohnsen 11:24:18 03/17/05 (0)
- You don't think that intentions are *implicit* to works of art? - rhizomatic 10:25:44 03/17/05 (3)
- Re: You don't think that intentions are *implicit* to works of art? - jamesgarvin 13:09:47 03/17/05 (1)
- But I'm not judging Eastwood. - rhizomatic 13:54:02 03/17/05 (0)
- Oh, by 'supplementary baggage' here, - rhizomatic 10:27:05 03/17/05 (0)
- "The arbiter of what is middle-brow entertainment..." Haw! - clarkjohnsen 07:44:33 03/16/05 (0)