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My dearest Tinman, people are snobs not the medium . . .

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Billy Wonka

In Reply to: RE: Why do you watch films? Entertainment, sure. But, on a site that's part of a posted by tinear on December 24, 2020 at 07:55:00

I find very little art in film, it's rare. I like to be entertained without pretension or overindulgence. I have broad tastes and prefer to keep it that way.

Life should be a bundle of laughs otherwise misery will be your constant companion.

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If you don't find art very often in film, it's you, not the medium. - tinear 13:05:47 12/25/20 (1)
Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne, Mozart, Raphael, Bergman, Tarr, Wong (Kar-wai). These great artists' works can be enjoyed by modestly educated people, though the more one knows of literature, film, and music, the greater the enjoyment.
The US is just one country, English but one language. The world has provided us with dozens of great directors and film artists who have created immortal works. But, one has to leave pretension at the door.
Champagne or beer? No. Both. Just because one cannot appreciate bubbly doesn't mean one who does is a snob or elitist.

Edits: 12/25/20
- Thanks for making my case . . . - Billy Wonka 13:32:35 12/26/20 (0)
  I knew you would.
I think there's more. - free.ranger 15:51:50 12/24/20 (0)
People might want something from film that is not just a story, but what the story represents.

Example: the Star Trek series stays popular by showing that we have continuance and achievement, even though we maintain our foibles. We overcome and go on to great things, carrying our baggage along. We feel good about that, even though traffic still waits outside the theater.

As opposed to the Star Wars series, which people are finding a drag. Showing that all the tech and achievement advances us to nothing but constant oppression, war and death. And showing that no one in that galaxy can shoot. Pathetic.
Hear here!... - musetap 14:32:03 12/24/20 (0)
I ran across a snobbish genre once, took me a long time to clean it off the bottom of my shoe.

Thank you for including pretension in your response - it was the first word popped into my
brain reading the OP.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure

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