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Movie Monday
Although I had high hopes for a new movie (well, new in terms of my Verizon movie package) I only managed to watch The Fall from 2006. At first, I thought I was watching a Camus novel but its title is literal: a movie stunt man in Los Angeles with girl friend issues injures himself in a stunt fall which was really too dangerous to attempt. Directed byTarsem Singh, the hospitalized stunt man tells a fantastical tale to another young patient (ala Baron Munchhausen.) The little girl is enchanted by him and his tale, however, the stunt man has an ulterior motive. Weaving events and people from the hospital into his story, we and the little girl hang on to this fantasy as it plays out. Does it all end well? I'll let you decide. Definitely worth the IMDb rating of 7.9 and perhaps that was even too low.
The week started with my reading:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/philip-roth-booker-prize_b_864536.html
Apparently, Shivani criticized Philip Roth's Booker Prize and this article delves into the richness of foreign literature vs. the shallowness of US lit. I guess I as I think, the best foreign literature writes metaphor; even the best US lit still writes in simile. Shivani titles his article: The Insularity of American Literature. It's a worthwhile read and discussion point. Of course, the American insularity has been on the radar of critics for generations, even centuries.
Which, in the same vein, brings me to a Roger Ebert mea culpa piece:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/05/my_mighty_hammering_over_thor.html
Ebert had the umbrage to criticize the new movie, Thor, and did he get flak for that. He was royally "taken to the wood shed" for not realizing (and thus forgiving) that the plot holes in the movie are all explained in the Thor comics. Talk about insular! Talk about rabid fans! Poor Roger. I guess the movie-goers give a lot of slack to their comic heroes. And, their movies-based-on Disney-World-rides considering Pirates 4 with a Rotten Tomato rating of 33% (now, that's rotten though not as rotten as Priest at 15%) is #1 at the box office.
Maybe Shivani should add "insane" to his adjective choices for American media, culture and (based on the ballyhoo over the recently wrongly predicted Rapture) American society in general. Enjoy!
The week started with my reading:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/philip-roth-booker-prize_b_864536.html
Apparently, Shivani criticized Philip Roth's Booker Prize and this article delves into the richness of foreign literature vs. the shallowness of US lit. I guess I as I think, the best foreign literature writes metaphor; even the best US lit still writes in simile. Shivani titles his article: The Insularity of American Literature. It's a worthwhile read and discussion point. Of course, the American insularity has been on the radar of critics for generations, even centuries.
Which, in the same vein, brings me to a Roger Ebert mea culpa piece:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/05/my_mighty_hammering_over_thor.html
Ebert had the umbrage to criticize the new movie, Thor, and did he get flak for that. He was royally "taken to the wood shed" for not realizing (and thus forgiving) that the plot holes in the movie are all explained in the Thor comics. Talk about insular! Talk about rabid fans! Poor Roger. I guess the movie-goers give a lot of slack to their comic heroes. And, their movies-based-on Disney-World-rides considering Pirates 4 with a Rotten Tomato rating of 33% (now, that's rotten though not as rotten as Priest at 15%) is #1 at the box office.
Maybe Shivani should add "insane" to his adjective choices for American media, culture and (based on the ballyhoo over the recently wrongly predicted Rapture) American society in general. Enjoy!
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