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His problem? American patriots are liking it. And he likes it too. How to distance oneself from the hoi polloi?“World Trade Center†is about courage and endurance as a function of family strength; it’s about suburban and small-town America trying to save the big city. Those are conservative themes, much praised for their appearance in this movie by the kind of right-wingers who have long hated Oliver Stone. Some of the euphoria — Cal Thomas, a columnist and a commentator at Fox News, calls the movie “one of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-male, flag-waving God Bless America films you will ever see†— is not only inane, it’s enough to turn you off moviegoing altogether. Can “World Trade Center†really be that bad? No, the ideologues laying hands on the movie won’t sink it.
The solution? Turn Oliver Stone into a magical patriot:
The conservatives who began to attack him after “Salvador†had him all wrong. Stone was not some anti-American crank but an anguished patriot with an outsized capacity for anger and shame.
OK... Sure, David. Whatever...
(By the way, note how Cal Thomas -- a long-time syndicated columnist -- must be tarred by Denby as a "Fox News commentator", as a clue to clueless New Yorkers on how to think.)
And can you believe? The most disagreeable chap here once instructed me I was (essentially) full of it because David Denby in The New Yorker disagreed with my statements.
Poor Pauline must be tossing in her grave.
clark
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Topic - David Denby struggles with "World Trade Center" in The New Yorker - clarkjohnsen 07:11:36 08/19/06 (3)
- Well then David Denby has too much time on his hands. nt - Vinylized 10:12:15 08/22/06 (0)
- Who cares about Denby? What did Clark think? * - mr grits 11:22:48 08/20/06 (1)
- Who's asking? nt - clarkjohnsen 13:13:13 08/20/06 (0)
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