You know Barry's next comeback will be how he pushed all of our buttons and just look at all of the posts we have made in his honour and because of him and his conscious technique to make us all go CRAZY and get our panties in a twist. He is poised right now with command V ready to paste his usual "Rote Post #44" from his long list of cookie cutter rants.
---In [email protected], <authfriend@...> wrote: Barry is the very last person who should be accusing anyone else of poverty of imagination. His can't even incorporate the obvious fact of the huge role that battle--from mythic and glorious to painfully real and depraved--has played in human artistic and intellectual culture throughout history. Much more important, to Barry, to attempt to destroy his own perceived opponent with spitballs. But at least, at the end here, he accurately characterizes his own limitations. Barry babbled: << --- In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], Bhairitu wrote: > > On 12/12/2013 04:36 PM, authfriend@... wrote: > > > > I'm of two minds about the use of existing serious music in films. On > > one hand, at least moviegoers get some exposure to it. On the other, > > it imposes a kind of sentimentality (positive and/or negative) on the > > music that is not native to it and that can impede genuine > > appreciation. The ultimate horrible example, for me, is the use of > > "Ride of the Valkyries" as background for the atrocities portrayed in > > /Apocalypse Now/. It's almost impossible to hear the music without the > > mental intrusion of images of helicopters slaughtering innocent > > Vietnamese civilians. Yes, both have to do with battles, but of very > > different types--one mythical and gloriously heroic, the other utterly > > depraved. > > Coppola was using that piece to mock the war. Coppola's father was a > professional musician and composer. The very *idea* that there can be such a thing as "mythical and gloriously heroic" battle reveals a great deal about the person who tries to turn *everything* into a battle. *All* forms of battle reveal nothing more than a poverty of imagination and intelligence on the part of the participants.>>
