In Reply to: Try smiling while you post posted by Victor Khomenko on August 19, 2006 at 11:03:19:
I didn't take your cheap shot as mean spirited. Sorry if it looked that way. Mostly I was disappointed that you blew off the content of my post. I'm still wondering about this quadropalegic marathon runner movie.
What is an is not a good story.... I don't know that you can pin it down. IMO almost any story can be good or bad depending on how it is told. Art is is the expression more than in the content. We can all spout basic truths, Life is precious, life is hard, love is beautiful etc etc. It means little just to say it. The art is in making us feel it in seemingly profound ways. I don't think there is a set of limits in terms of genre or story line in which this can happen. I can say "he layed dead in his mother's arms" and I can look at Michelangelo's Pieta. The content is the same. One can even argue the content is almost cheap and cliche. But I suspect you get my point.
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Follow Ups
- you are right. I should have included a big :-) - Analog Scott 11:24:41 08/19/06 (2)
- No harm done - Victor Khomenko 12:13:54 08/19/06 (1)
- Underdog stories are moderately popular but - Analog Scott 13:02:22 08/19/06 (0)