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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
<jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
>
Mrt wrote:
>
> Do you think prudishness is the reason why some
Allen films don't
> appeal to US audiences? I find that hard to believe.
And I thought
> Joffe was still on board... I may be wrong on that.
My take on Allen
> is that he has distilled his themes considerably,
that the scripts are
> almost uniformly terrific, and that the stylized
world of Allen makes
> fewer and fewer concessions to the taste of the
general US public. If
> you put aside some of the irony, his films have
become deeply
> pessimistic. That's my explanation,
anyway.
Mrt, Consider how Ingrid Bergman and Charlie Chaplin
were treated because of their indiscretions. I think the
American public recoiled from his action toward Mia and his
marrying a girl at least half his age who had been associated
with while playing the role of her father. It's ok in a movie
like Gigi or Sabrina but this was highly publicized and real
life.
I agree most of his films have gotten darker, but I don't
think that's the primary reason he was forced to get his
financing from Europe. In the past he was able to survive
films like Interiors, but now he can't even though he made
light films like Curse of the Jade Scorpion fairly recently.
Granted most weren't very good, but I think what I wrote is
the fundamental reason he has had to leave the US. Mark
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