Posted on 01/29/2007 2:49:13 AM PST by nancyvideo
Hollywood types speak gauzily of their "art," even if nothing seems to fit the definition of some of this "art" better than "films almost no one wants to watch." Robert Redford became a hero of the "art" film world by founding the Sundance Institute in 1981, based on the call for "creative risk-taking" and "nurturing the diversity of artistic expression." But the search for risk-taking-cum-creative-diversity is a hopeless free-fall into the abyss, and all too often, and too predictably, results in creative perversity. What Mapplethorpe brought to the photograph, Redford's festival is now bringing to the silver screen.
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They must be shunned by all of society, only this time, on purpose. Not the usual shunning done by the vast majority who never watch these "art" films. We're going beyond defining deviance down, to eliminating the term altogether.
Not to worry...our free market will do the job
Oh brave new world, to have such people in it!
Now stop the world and let me off.
If some 'normal' person were found by Law Enforcement to have a clip of something like that on their computer it's highly likely they'd be charged with a Felony.
But because it's 'hollywood' we're supposed to believe that somehow this is a vital contribution to the arts.
It's not. It's poisonous crap.
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"risk taking" for these folks means portrayal of perversion on an ever expending scope. that's the ceheap, coward's way of being creative. Hows about some new and risky topics, like how global warming is a hoax?, or what society would look like if the left had it's way?
being perverted is easy, charting new ground is not.
And last I knew it still didn't have a distributor.
Good. I have a feeling this 'film' was made as nothing more than some kind of mental masturbatory fantasy of the directors.
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I can think of two, "Brazil" and "1984".
"Brazil" was brilliant, but it didn't really get a lot of play. "1984" was well done, but is rather dated. I'd like to see a much more modern version of it done.
I'm cautiously optomistic that "Atlas Shrugged" will be made someday but what those Hollywood morons will do to it as a screen play is anyones guess.
I'm not sanquine about it remaing true to Miss Rands vision.
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I'm not sure BUT I think 'Atlas Shrugged' is under production. Believe Jolie is to play Dagney. Anyone out there hear about this?
You forgot the most evocative word for what they're trying to accomplish: transgressive.
To these evil people, anything that offends against and tears down "traditional morality," (also known as morality itself) is by definition artistic and exciting.
I just can't see Jolie as Dagny, though.
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He was great in "Walk The Line".
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I think the actress who played Raymond's wife on Everyone loves Raymond would be good as Dagny.
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It's funny you should say that. When I think of Sundance (the ski resort in Provo Canyon) I think of rope. My wife and I visited in the off season and went into the crafts barn to look around. I came across a piece of rope/twine hanging from the ceiling and leaned over to my wife and asked "is this art or did something break?" Another man, also visiting with his wife, laughed out loud and said to me "I was thinking the same thing!"
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