[lbo-talk] The Manchurian Candidate/The Village

BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Sat Jul 31 13:10:24 PDT 2004


Dear List:

This is just to say that I think The Manchurian Candidate is one of the best movies in a long time. It deepens and enriches the first film, while being a great work of art on its own (in much the same way that Godfather II enriched/deepened The Godfather.) I do think though that if you have never seen the original (or due to forgetfulness are sketchy about its details) much of pleasures Demme serves up will elude you.

Close analogies I can think of are the recent addition to the Brooklyn Museum or I.M. Pei's addition to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. -- modern additions to grand Beaux Arts buildings -- solid, elegant, b&w Frankenheimer reflected/refracted in the shiny, color of splintered Demme.

Demme also plays with gender, race and politics in exciting ways.

As for The Village, I am curious if anyone on the list has seen it and what their response was.

Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister



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