> Pauline Kael didn't
> care about Robert Altman's vision; she cared whether
she liked the
> particular movie. That's a serious flaw in a
critic."
Why? The vision matters to Altman, but I watch movies to be
entertained. What we the audience see in writing or movies
doesn't need to be what the creators of those works saw in
them. They don't need to care either - there's a big
different between academic interpretation and criticism of
entertainment value. I remember the scene in "Back to School"
with Rodney Dangerfield where Rodney gets Kurt Vonnegut to
write a paper on the meaning of Kurt Vonnegut's writing. The
professor comes back and says, "You've completely missed the
meaning!"
Jordan
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