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In Reply to: In the best of Hollywood tradition, Titanic has the happy ending posted by Victor Khomenko on November 05, 1999 at 11:27:57:
I like happy endings (smile). If I want unhappy endings all I have to do is think about my love love life (whine, snivel).Different strokes and all that. I freely admit i like trash - as long as its intelligently written. I was watching the x-files the other day and Scully used the word "obfuscation". Now seriously, how often on network tv or even in movies would you hear a word like that used without making some stupid joke out of it?
***Different strokes and all that. I freely admit i like trash - as long as its intelligently written.I don't understand this. If it is intelligently written, then how can it be trash? Remember, art is NOT in subject, it is in the means. When Rabelais writes about excrements and vomiting, he does that so it is art, however low the subject might be. The same subject in Dumb and Dumber is trash because the whole movie is trash and the writer inept.
Most of what we consider art as opposed to trash, has to do with some pretty mundane subject - maid washing dishes in an old Dutch masterpiece, a prostitute, a bloody battle, a cattle and the dead fish... Most of high literature describes simple people and their simple deads, not Gods doing their godly stuff...
So the subject can shock us, but its mere nature doesn't turn artwork into trash, the lousy means do,
***I was watching the x-files the other day and Scully used the word "obfuscation". Now seriously, how often on network tv or even in movies would you hear a word like that used without making some stupid joke out of it?I guess, that entirely depends on the movie. The whole network TV stuff, unfortunately, is just that, trash.
I didn't mean to lose you :-)
I have a friend who likes to read, but he likes "literature", i.e Stenbeck and Faulkner, etc. While I like Steinbeck, I've never been able to relate ot Faulkner and frankly find his "stream of conciousness" style to be poorly written. By trash i meant I like Clancy, Stephen King, Lethal Weapon (I), Clint Eastwood movies (except the spaghetti westerns which are truly excreble), John Wayne, comedies such as "Paint Your wagon" (one of my all timne favorites), etc. IOW stuff that's not "high brow" or "great literature". OTOH, stupidity doesn't impress me.
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