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In Reply to: Re: Private Ryan: some of it was very realistic posted by Victor Khomenko on July 12, 1999 at 13:36:02:
Sometimes I want to eat haute cuisine and sometimes all I want is a really good burger or hot dog. Spielberg occasionally makes very good hot dogs. I agree that the basic plot device used in "Ryan" was artificial and manipulative, and I think other directors would not have given Hanks the "why we are here" sermon or made him stop his troops from killing their German prisoner. But I found the Omaha beach sequence very effective at grabbing the viewer's attention. I think Spielberg also demands that his movies hammer home the point to the audience that this is what it takes to be the "good guys" (also in "Schindler's list"). He is not going to let the audience think about or question their morality (unlike Kurosawa, Stone, Pasolini, etc.).BTW, when I wrote that "Salo" was the most repulsive movie I had ever seen, I did not mean to imply that it was a bad movie (actually was hoping that my comment would lead others to seek it out), but that it was going to make the viewer extremely uncomfortable and make one question why viewing this horror holds a strange attraction/fascination. One thing is for sure, viewing "Salo" will affect and change you.
Speaking of uncomfortable, for those who haven't seen "Salo" yet, recall the scene in Schindler's list when the gun keeps jamming, preventing an execution. Multiply that by a dozen or so and that is what viewing "Salo" is like.
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Follow Ups
- Art vs. Product - TAFKA Steve 15:03:11 07/12/99 (11)
- Re: Art vs. Product - Victor Khomenko 15:37:29 07/12/99 (10)
- Trainspotting - petew 18:55:57 07/16/99 (0)
- Glenn Gould - NO, Bitter Harvest - YES. - Victor Khomenko 07:20:26 07/13/99 (8)
- Re: Glenn Gould - NO, Bitter Harvest - YES. - Estes 21:05:40 07/13/99 (0)
- Re: Glenn Gould - NO, Bitter Harvest - YES. - TAFKA Steve 16:33:09 07/13/99 (6)
- The best movie not to take your mother-in-law to... - Victor Khomenko 20:00:26 07/13/99 (5)
- that's it! That's the one I was thinking of! No, she wouldn't care for it either (nt) - petew 19:00:45 07/16/99 (0)
- LOL! What a good son-in-law you are! - TAFKA Steve 15:38:59 07/14/99 (3)
- Prequel? I like that. - Victor Khomenko 06:44:31 07/15/99 (2)
- Irezumi? - TAFKA Steve 19:23:04 07/15/99 (1)
- Re: Irezumi? - Victor Khomenko 05:21:26 07/16/99 (0)
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