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Post by Kleanthes on Aug 10, 2004 17:15:34 GMT -5
to hell with artsy-fartsy. i fart on that! but what you want is a movie that ties in with some of the issues we addressed throughout the semester and one reason against a mainstream movie is that plot/action always come first. at least in my view, and i'm not a film expert (that's probably why) and neither am i artsy-fartsy -- i just watch movies to get a kick out of them, not to analyze them. one reason to study linguistics and not literature. i take a different approach. so in this respect, docus, biopics or fringe movies always win. that's just my two cents. enjoy, burn, dot, pen2/penpen/marcus & the rest!
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Post by Burn on Aug 11, 2004 4:53:29 GMT -5
What the...? This is a discussion board, not a hate board, right? I'm just continuing what we started in the seminar. Discussion. Sorry if I sounded too aggressive, didn't mean to troll... Point taken, and I see that it is a bit difficult with the movies I proposed. But that doesn't change my argument... Right. But that doesn't mean it cannot provide stuff for discussion (or "academic" purposes or whatever). I think this is exactly what makes it so interesting to look at. Mainstream media (be it documentaries, movies etc.) do not go about with a sledgehammer saying "Look at this, this is wrong!". They just exist and reflect the tastes of the masses. So, from the way things are presented in the movie (violence, sex, gender, language, just to name a few popular topics), you can make conclusions as to the target audience, and from the success it had you can see if it struck a nerve, appealed to the people. See my point?
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