Posted on 01/02/2020 12:05:24 PM PST by C19fan
It’s a peculiar feature of our culture that men who behave in predictably masculine ways find themselves chastised and scolded for not being more feminine. This brings me to Little Women, which is not exactly packing in male ticket buyers. Why would it? No one expected women to turn up for Rambo: Last Blood, and no one seemed particularly interested in the male-female breakdown of the ticket sales for that one.
Yet op-ed writers keep pitching versions of the same strange thesis, which is that we should be cross with men for not buying tickets to Little Women. “Dear men who are afraid to see Little Women: you can do this,” says an op-ed in the Washington Post. I think the writer is here confusing the concept of fear with lack of interest or boredom. (I blanch at the prospect of going through my Aetna paperwork, but my guiding emotion is not fear.) “For the love of Marmee,” writes Monica Hesse of the WaPo, “won’t someone please organize a Meetup so these men can watch Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson go to the ball and lose their gloves?” I am sorry to inform Ms. Hesse that the United States is a signatory to the Geneva Convention and hence no American man can be forced to submit to this variant of the Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange.
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My "hot button" is that I don't like modern, revisionist stuff done to true "classics"! If people can't think up NEW things to write, but rewrite old, classics, they shouldn't write anything!
Yes, there are basic themes, that have always been around ( there are close to something like 600 different versions of the Cinderella story, throughout history and nations/different cultures, but that's because it's a constant human theme.
My "hot button" is that I don't like modern, revisionist stuff done to true "classics"! If people can't think up NEW things to write, but rewrite old, classics, they shouldn't write anything!
Yes, there are basic themes, that have always been around ( there are close to something like 600 different versions of the Cinderella story, throughout history and nations/different cultures, but that's because it's a constant human theme.
Same can be said for the Kurt Russell version of Tombstone.
Being Hungarian I was surprised to learn while he was born in Manhattan his parents were Hungarian and the pronunciation of his last name is anglicized. In Hungarian it is said as soo kor which actually means sugar. :)
The book was pretty good, but mind you I am a female and I read it when I was 9. Hollyweird ruins everything these days. Remakes are just an excuse to push an agenda.
LOL No, that I watched it again within this past year, again and will no doubt watch it again and again. Oh, and "I love My Fair Lady" "Paint Your Wagon" and "The Music Man" too. I just watched "The Music Man" week for the umpteenth time.
Just to bring things back into focus, my DVDs right here on my desk are, "Kelly's Heroes","The Life Aquatic", "Topsy-Turvy", "UltraViolet", "Idiocracy (id-ee-awkr-ass-ee)", "The Big Lebowski" and the "Back to the Future" trillogy. But in the cabinet just behind me I have "Notting Hill", "Love Actually", "The Magic Christian", a couple of old John Wayne's films, a double DVD of "The Inspector General" / "Royal Wedding" and Laurel & Hardy's "Utopia." So both high level and base Level tastes for me.
I watched the trailer too. Conclusion: agenda movie. Did not follow the tone of book. I liked earlier movie versions better.
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Some really bad movies mixed in with good ones. I’ll give you props for having a Danny Kaye mixed in.
Who are you talking about? Cukor?
It was filled with humor and warmth. One of the most intelligent literary adaptations in recent years. And yes it demands the audiences’ attention.
Just a wee bit of info for a fellow poster of Hungarian heritage. :-)
Why? That’s like saying men will never like Jane Austen.
It’s one of the great social satires. You didn’t think it was funny? Austen is supremely witty.
Yes
Enjoy yourself.
;^)
Daniel Day Lewis/Madeline Stowe.
No, we hated them because they were BORING.
Yes, for our kind.
Some really great films you have there; even the “fluff”.
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