On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > One hadn't really thought about it, but on reflection, and on reading > this past exchange, one finds oneself rather agreeing with Tomasz Rola. > Particularly after his painful jab about the historical authenticity of > American movies. These are compositions, agreed, and poetic license is > permitted, agreed, but a systematic distortion always in a particular > direction is something else again. But this exchange throws up more > compelling reasons to ask if Hollywood is any longer an artistic > fountainhead, or if it is now the equivalent of a Big Mac in > entertainment terms - large, and glossy and attractive to look at, and > even tasty to eat, but lethal in its hidden, subtle after-effects and > over the long-term. Definitely not recommended for long-term health, in > this case, mental health.
This kind of thoughts occur to me too - but you managed to pack them into well written and concise form, probably better then I would do this myself :-). I wouldn't limit those effects to Hollywood, however. I think they are present in movie industry as a whole, sometimes more visible, sometimes less, sometimes Hollywood gets blamed and they probably deserve it, too. Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
