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Okay, why no Hollywood in my list?

Once one acquires the "taste" for foreign, independent films, it makes Hollywood fare apprreciation very difficult.
The long and dark shadow of Hollywood over the many decades has created a language of acting with double-takes, eye movements, hair-toussling, etc. , overuse of music to "heighten" the dramatic moments, (mostly) frenetic pacing, and a lead-the-viewer-by-the-nose style of storytelling.
Nobody gets upset and holds anything in... forehead veins pop, voices shout, hands wring, scenery is chewed..
Hollywood films, in other words, largely have descended to the level of television melodrama.
No sense in arguing it. You either get this or you don't.
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Topic - Okay, why no Hollywood in my list? - tinear 11:27:05 01/15/07 (66)


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