Underboss
Joined: Feb 2003
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Originally posted by Mike Sullivan: I think I understand where he is coming from. Some readers never look beyond the story. They just read a book and run along contentley, never thinking of the symbolisim or the statement the author is trying to make in his work.
Of course, we like tho think that this is a new development. Fact is that some people don't appeciate art for what it is or can be... A source of enlightement. That's the purpose of criticisim and analysis. To discover such things.
That said, it hurts to over-analyze. Then the work looses it's steem, and that whole sense of telling a story. SOmetimes, works don't need to be anylized. They are just cahreceter studies or just really good stories.
All variables shouldbe taken into consideration. Sorry for the rant.
Now THAT I agree with. Maybe he just worded it wrong?
Although I still disagree about the part where he said that its rare that books make great films. I mean, just glancing at the list on the link I put:
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arsenic and Old Lace, Ben-Hur, Bridge on the River Kwai, Caine Mutiny, The Exorcist, Forrest Gump, Frankenstein, Gettysburg, THE GODFATHER, The Great Escape... All of which are EXCELLENT films (in my opinion anyway.. and obviously someone elses if they listed them on that site) And I'm only at the G's.
