On 1/1/13 10:15 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > It is okay to isolate the subatomic particles of our culture, and look > at them in turn every which way, compare/contrast, etc. But at some > point we must also see the structures they form jointly. It is not > hard to see that Django and Lincoln form a sort of unity. Neither is > it to see the social roots of this interesting artistic whole. > Historically, Django stresses the indomitable, relentless resistance > to slavery by relatively isolated individual blacks, the pernicious > effects of the hierarchical division of the slaves, the touchiness and > understandable paranoia of the slaveowners against anything other than > full submission, etc. The Lincoln piece focuses on the short-distance > maneuvering on the political surface. Both pieces are remarkable > artistic renderings.
Actually they are rather unremarkable. Spielberg did a Spielberg imitation and Tarantino did a Tarantino imitation. A remarkable artistic rendering would be something like "Once upon a time in Anatolia" or "Oslo August 31". Here's a good take-down of "Django Unchained", a film I walked out of after just one to many "n-word". http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/12/28/black-audiences-white-stars-and-django-unchained/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
