Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> On 11/30/06, BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com > wrote:
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> >BklynMagus wrote: Because they are enaging the film on a rudimentary
> level and we are engaging it on a more complex level: they are seeing
> the movies as Cary Grant vehicles. We are seeing them as Cary Grant
> vehicles as well as films by Hawks and Capra, and maybe some other
> iterations as well. If the only level they chose to work on is "Cary
> Grant vehicle" -- fine. But that does not negate the fact that there
> is a more complex way of watching those two movies.
This is what gets me on this thread. Brian is defending a view which is meaningless except on the premise of a metaphysical individualism which in other contexts Brian has attacked vigorously!
It seems that Brian is a 20th-century american first and last, and only a Buddhist by avocation and occasionally.
Carrol