In Reply to: Re: I don't get your analogy posted by jamesgarvin on June 27, 2005 at 15:26:41:
I am glad you brought up the music subject, as it demonstrates how wrong you are.One does not evaluate (intuitively) works of art based on their genre.
When I am driving and a catchy and beautiful country song hits the air, I do not think: "This is a country song, so I better quickly change my scale to properly evaluate it".
No, I simply instantly know whether it speaks to me.
And I instantly do the same for jazz, classical, folk, pop... doesn't matter one bean. There are great things to be found everywhere, and you know when you find them. If thing is beautiful then you can see it right away... provided, of course, you have sufficient education, experience, intuition etc.
Same with movies. I completely reject the notion of defining genre. If you have to mention the genre as a crutch, then the movie is deficient. I don't usually watch animations, but I took a look at the Shrek, and it hit a good note, in a matter of a couple of minutes.
Nothing like that is present in the LOTR. It simply didn't matter to me whether it was on or off, I could have walked away any second. With Shrek I wanted to continue watching.
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Follow Ups
- You live by your analogy, and you die by it - Victor Khomenko 16:20:32 06/27/05 (10)
- Jeeesus, Victor...Shrek?!?!? n/t - PCL 11:00:18 06/28/05 (8)
- Shocking... heh? - Victor Khomenko 14:17:41 06/28/05 (7)
- "Patrick might tell you I also love Clueless..." - I think that you love BEING clueless! (nt) - Audiophilander 16:08:34 06/28/05 (6)
- Re: How profound and cute of you! nt - patrickU 05:06:28 06/29/05 (5)
- It would be even more profound if your nom-de-plume were "Clueless," but I doubt that you'd find that as cute. (nt) - Audiophilander 10:35:46 06/29/05 (4)
- Re: Well you are some kind of slow.... - patrickU 11:27:06 06/29/05 (3)
- Re: Well you are some kind of slow.... - patrickU 12:05:51 06/29/05 (1)
- Only to anger. - Audiophilander 13:37:45 06/29/05 (0)
- Archivists. (nt) - Audiophilander 11:50:58 06/29/05 (0)
- Re: You live by your analogy, and you die by it - jamesgarvin 08:26:05 06/28/05 (0)