-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Bassett <
dj_bassett@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Feb 23, 2007 9:07 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Moral or Immoral?
>
>
>Didn't this whole discussion start from
Altman's
>version of LONG GOODBYE. I don't like Altman and
have
>never seen the movie, but I understand it to be
a
>revisionist take on the Chandler character,
no?
>Revisionism is a lazy man's crutch for
insight:
>pointing out that Marlowe, or characters like him,
are
>romantic idealized figures that could never exist in
a
>"heroic way", anyway, in reality seems to me,
again,
>to miss the point.
>
>doug
>
>
Ah, finally someone manages to trash The Long Goodbye - and
Altman - without even bothering to see the movie.
I'm surprised it took this long.
So, here's one for the class:
Is criticizing a movie or book that you have not actually
seen or read:
A) moral B) immoral C) amoral D) none of the above
TL
P.S. - While I am a big fan of Robert Altman's, even I accept
the fact that he was incredibly hit or miss. He bats about
.500, but he went to bat more often than most directors of
his generation. And I do manage to find some of his misses
more interesting than some other director's "hits." Not
better. Just more interesting.
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