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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 amAn 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
Thanx to Metafilter
The First True Disney Romance
Sep. 9th, 2016 05:53 amMari Ness’s excellent series of Disney posts turns to one of my childhood faves: Lady and the Tramp
Thanx to Tor.com.
Thanx to Tor.com.
Star Wars redux
Jan. 2nd, 2016 10:22 amJohn 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.
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*This link may be seen as a kind of benevolent Rickroll.
Not supposed to make sense
Oct. 5th, 2011 10:06 amBut 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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