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In Reply to: Re: Private Ryan: the sick joke. The new low for the US movie industry (yes, industry...) posted by Victor Khomenko on July 13, 1999 at 07:14:59:
You compare Speilberg with Kubrik et al and state that he is not a director like them or perhaps should not be considered a director at all. Perhaps I agree with you. Speilberg will never be considered a great director of "art films" yet he will be remembered as a great movie maker and more importantly as a great "story teller." This is, after all, what he does, and in my humble opinion better then most. He enchants his audience with stories. Just because his movies are not filled with Faustian angst doesn't mean that they are vile crap. His movies tell stories; stories of wonder and enchantment, stories of adventure, stories of good and evil. Narrative films such as Hook, Indiana Jones, and Schlindler's List will never be compared to La Dolce Vita or Citizen Kane, however, they will be brought up in comparisons between Speilburg and other great story tellers who used film as their medium.Saving Private Ryan was about the men of our father's generation and their reality. Service to others, self sacrifice, patriotism; these were more then words to that generation, they were simple but absolute truths which they activily embodied. I thought that was what Speilberg accomplished, to show these simple yet fundamental concepts in a modest story that took place in a very complicated time and under the circumstances of war. Did he get carried away with making his first war movie? Perhaps, but not overmuch. Saving Private Ryan is a movie about the heroism of war and the good citizenship of peacetime that such heorism demands. It is a story about patriotism and patriots. A subject deserving attention and a story, perhaps a bit simplistically, but in the end well told.
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- Re: Private Ryan: the sick joke. The new low for the US movie industry (yes, industry...) - DaveH 21:31:13 07/13/99 (1)
- Re: Private Ryan: the sick joke. The new low for the US movie industry (yes, industry...) - Victor Khomenko 05:05:15 07/14/99 (0)
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