David Lynch

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Mar 4 13:48:12 PST 2002


David Lynch Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 05:57:43 +0000 From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>


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>CB: What's to like about a bad message in beautiful form ? A piece of shit
>wrapped in a pretty ribbon is still a piece of shit, innit ?
>

No. There is no worse message than Griffith's The Birth of a Nation or Riefenstahl's The Triumph of Will, but they are great films. You assume that there is a neat form/content distinction to be made, but this applies least of all in works of art, where form is to a great extent content.

jks

^^^^^^6

CB: No they are not. They are horrible films. I don't assume any neat distinction. I just say that the promotion of KKKism destroys the "greatness" of the movie. A piece of shit wrapped in a pretty ribbon is not "great" at all.



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