A classic

Jun. 18th, 2018 07:42 am
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Bringing Up Baby is a secretly dirty movie in which everyone is crazy, so it wasn’t a hit, but now it’s a classic. [Politico]

Folk Tales

Jun. 10th, 2017 06:09 am
supergee: (breeches)
An anthropologist with the charming name of Hortense Powdermaker turned the condescending eye of her profession on the sort of savage, primitive tribe that deserved it. The book was called Hollywood, the Dream Factory. Her subjects retain that sort of charming simplicity; for instance, they believe that no movie centered around Asian-American women could possibly succeed. But The Joy Luck Club did.

Thanx to Metafilter
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Mari Ness’s excellent series of Disney posts turns to one of my childhood faves: Lady and the Tramp

Thanx to Tor.com.
supergee: (rocket coyote)
John C. Wright* does not like the new Star Wars because Rey is not a damsel in distress. Love it! The movie has blown away the Nutty Nuggets argument, the case that bang-bang sci-fi adventure with lots of plot and special effects also needs Young White Guy Gets Busty Babe or it’s not the real thing.

*This link may be seen as a kind of benevolent Rickroll.

Rating

Dec. 6th, 2014 06:27 am
supergee: (screw)
PG-13: Helping make movies big, expensive, and mediocre

Thanx to [livejournal.com profile] andrewducker
supergee: (fractal brain)
But what if it didn't matter that Star Wars doesn't make sense as a story, because Star Wars isn't a story, but a collection of sounds and pictures which were much more about making me feel a particular way – excited, nostalgic, patriotic, whatever – than about conveying information?
Enjoying Star Wars more by not thinking about it.

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