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In Reply to: Wouldn't even have *started* American Pie... posted by clarkjohnsen on December 20, 2000 at 07:37:32:
the "overblown and grandiose" nature of the production created that element of "spectatorship" for which the viewer can hang is preconceived notions...IT IS the bigger than life characters that make it what is was...the grand scale is...well, Lean.I make the comparison ot Apocolypse Now....that film was wrought with surreal and fantasitc mis-en-sciene (sp?)...but it was that very element that brought the spectator closer to the Veit-Nam experiance. Coppola had to highten the senses towards craziness an obsurdity to draw us in to the crazyness and obsurdity of the war....much the same way Lean had to grandise "Lawerence"...we as spectators had to see him bigger that life in order to buy into the fantasy...if not we might as well watch Lethal Weapon XXII.....
Or, I guess, you and I need to agree to disagree...
Happy Holidays, jb
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