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Rather that speaking of what is normal, how about some examples of abnormal?

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on August 18, 2006 at 07:53:07

In Reply to: Well that speaks of your taste in moies and ideas of mormality. posted by Analog Scott on August 17, 2006 at 09:13:00:

We could start easy, but on a truly idiotic note - the Hollywood (and American) obsesssion with winning underdogs.

Face it... in real life someone beat into the pulp doesn't suddenly raise off the canvas to win the fight.

A quadroplegic does not jump out of his wheel chair to win a marathon.

If I were to count such events in American movies my computer would be smoking.

Normal? Hardly.

A janitor does not - in real life - become a mathematical genius. Not any more often than a 55 year old fart suddenly starts playing like Vladimir Horowitz.

Normal?

I could keep going, but that should give you some idea... it is not Frankensteins I am talking about... I am talking about fun for severely intellectually handicaped, forced by Hollywood on masses, and the masses willingly responding.

OTOH, all characters in Bergman's films are normal people... they find themselves in the situations that are common, but not any less interesting psychologically because of that.

Truth is, one does not need an abnormal situation to provide food for deep analysis - a family divorce and how "ordinary" people go through it is rich in emotions and psychology, in drama and revelations.

A quadraplegic winning a race is a sick joke, is a low brow entertainment for a dumb crowd.

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