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To: Destro
Fiction has to be self-contained. It must have its own logic to hold together. That's why the fantasy of "It's A Wonderful Life" works, but ""Field of Dreams" didn't.

Eastwood has always told us before that "might makes right" if might is consciously working on the side of the ultimate good.

"Dirty Harry" and all Eastwood's westerns (like Ford's reluctant hero, John Wayne, in "The Searchers") eventually shows us the bad guys looses and right prevails somehow.

At the very least, if right doesn't prevail, like in "Three Days of the Condor," we're shown that it should prevail.

A story's core must be consistent and ultimately redeeming, according to how human beings have defined "redemption" after three thousand years of fiction.

Dirty Harry was redemptive -- the bad guy gets plugged. Good.

MDB is not redeeming; a mangled, though sentient human being is destroyed as so much refuse.

Broken bodies are not refuse, even though the agenda these days is to see anything less than perfect as better destroyed.

That's real "StaliNazis."

185 posted on 02/08/2005 12:03:27 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

"Field of Dreams" worked for me.


187 posted on 02/08/2005 12:06:34 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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