Chuck Loucks ----- Original Message ----- From: "shag carpet bomb" <shag at cleandraws.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Hurt Locker
> At 06:29 PM 3/11/2010, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>>Michael Pollak wrote:
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>> > I don't think it's a very important movie. I very much enjoyed watching
>> > it, and I think it's a interesting innovation in action movies,
>> > comparable
>> > to, and more successful than, Ang Lee's Hulk. But probably about as
>> > memorable.
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>>We can't get hundreds of thousands of people marching in D.C. against
>>the war two or three or four times a year, but we sure can be hell on
>>movies we can dub "conservative."
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>>I know this runs against over a century of left critique of the arts,
>>most of which is grounded in the (false) assumption that the politics of
>>a work are intrnsic to the work; neertheless, I would argue that the
>>poliitcs of a work are to be judged not by anything 'in' it (movie,
>>novel, poem, ballet) but by the conversation the work generates. And as
>>fasr as I can see (going back to discussions of Independence Day on the
>>Spoons marxism list) all the movies that have generated good left
>>discussion have been movies which have been condemned as reactionary or
>>conservative. "Progressive" or radical movies don't seem to generate
>>much worthwhile discussion.
>>
>>Carrol
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> just out of curiosity, what would be a radical movie?
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