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Re: "Russians have a reputation of viewing music and events from a view in which emotions are not an important factor."

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on November 15, 2004 at 06:31:45

In Reply to: "Russians have a reputation of viewing music and events from a view in which emotions are not an important factor." posted by sjb on November 14, 2004 at 19:09:09:

***Clearly Victor, for whatever reason, is refusing to address the fact that WWII vets vouch for the veracity of the landing scene

Well, the reason is quite simple, really, and it is that it has nothing to do with the film's merits.

This is what I meant by shamelessly speculating on strong emotions.

There are things that are rightly considered no-no's in making of fine movies. Showing a cute child or a dog are among them. And also - what Spielberg does.

Let me illustrate this with an example. Let's say I decided to make a movie depicting the life of a little Jewish girl, the last days of it, from the time her family was rounded up and to the gas chamber.

If I stayed reasonably close to the truth of the subject (would not be all that hard to do), I would know the film would stir **extremely** strong emotions in Holocaust survivers and members of their families. It would need not be any artistic revelation, just have no obvious irritating elements or serious faults - and it would grab the public' attention.

In fact, it might even assure a reasonable shot at Oscars.

Now, to make a movie that grabs the viewer by examiling a seemingly primitive, simple, small or insignificant subject is an entirely different matter. THAT takes a master.

Look at Nights of Cabiria. A few days in life of a low class Roman hooker. And Fellini manages to create the emotional masterpiece that can completely stand on its own feet, and will continue to do so for centuries, probably.

What Fellini does in that movie is completely absent in SPR. And one can conclude further that great masters most of the time avoided Earth shattering events in ther work, as these tend to overshadow the artistic, creative side of their work. And yes, there ARE a few exceptions. But mostly Chardins paited their self-portraits and their servant girls.

Great masters just don't speculate on strong emotions and cute kids. For that is truly Spielberg's territory, the land of a movie BUSINESSMAN, where he is the King. He started with showing teenagers being swallowed by shark, and apparently he never left that paradigm.

He most likely has reached the level of his incompetence. He will never give us another Bicycle Thief for the simple reason... that he can't.

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