i don't have time to "correct" interpretations of what i'd written, anyway. plus, i'm always kind of interested in the various ways it has been interpreted.
At 01:34 PM 2/4/2006, Carrol Cox wrote:
>I would think impossible love would be radically different from merely
>"a love affair or potential love affair that got trashed." There is
>nothing impossible about the love in Anna Karenina, for example, anymore
>than it was impossible for Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to survive in
>Unforgiven. It was just that the plot as worked out by the writer or
>writer/director) called for Anna's adulterous love affair to fail.
>
>Ape & woman in King Kong is probably a good extreme for impossible love.
>The adulterous lovers get together in What Maisie Knew. And there was
>nothing impossible about Nanda's lover for Vanderbank in The Awkward
>Age; V could have been less than a complete jerk. And in Casablanca I
>would say that far from its being an impossible love it is not only a
>possible but a highly probable love that the lovers deliberately choose
>not to pursue. (The Hayes Office rules make it impossible of course, but
>that is not, I think, relevant.)
>
>Carrol
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