On 6 feb, 16:52, william wrote:
> On Feb 6, 9:54=A0am, Howard Brazee wrote:
>
> > What movie is necessary?
>
> Good question. My knee-jerk reaction would be wartime or pre-war
> propaganda. Anything from "Triumph of the Will" and "Why We Fight" to
> "Casablanca" and others. There is also a case for "message" movies
> although few of them retain much interest after the issue is over or
> at least more acceptable. There are also movies made that allow a view
> of cultures that we may never see, have ideas that are foreign or
> examine situations we share. We can argue which is which and how
> valuable they are outside of entertainment (not dissing the
> entertainment value). So we may not find a particular film that we can
> all agree is necessary, and at the same time realize that movies are
> necessary. For me, I find some films -- and we're talking general
> release films -- that have reprehensible messages -- think "Pretty
> Woman" -- and are detrimental as well as unnecessary. In "Julie and
> Julia" we have a glorification of mediocrity in the form of the self-
> important, self-involved, Julie who turns cooking the meals of someone
> who actually spent the time and the energy to create into a faux
> revelation about herself. Mastering The Art Of French Cooking isn't
> Fermat's Last Theorem or a galactic Rosetta Stone. It's a cookbook and
> Julie made dinner.
all of these things, descrbed in different manners muff course, are
precisely wot i liked about the pic, its kinda respectful for both the
hyped up pioneering and perhaps greaterly achieving past and for the
present unmythical, unquoting and democratised media. without avin
read or cooked any of the shit involved, it has a number of luvly
moments, like when julie says she's a bitch, nothing against women,
but v concise and less convoluted than the woody allen fanfare, both
bitches are ok to stare at for awhile but perhaps not to sleep with,
just like watching mooees, however quite obviously 60 yr olds will
prefer respect for julia cuz it means respect your elders cuz they're
elders too whereas youngsters will prefer renting blogger dimwits as
long as they dont actually like silly broadway musicals like rent, i
havent liked a nora ephron pic as much as since this is my life, which
i remember liking off the charts however but only swedish private
tracker released, damn
If Julie was blind and had no legs, I'd be
> impressed with the struggle. I agree with Julia Child. Julie is
> totally disrespectful about Julia, herself and cooking.
>
> Williamwww.williamahearn.com
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