[lbo-talk] Star Wars and the death of American cinema

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Dec 31 16:16:00 PST 2015


No Hollywood producer is any more anxious to make money than was Shakespeare!

Motive is pretty irrelevant. Samuel Johnson claimed a man who wrote for any other reason than making money was a blockhead. (I forget his exact language.)

Carrol

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 5:57 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Star Wars and the death of American cinema

Most great European directors over the last hundred years have regarded Holly wood films as the best to be had. This generic sneer at the near or the recent is really moldy w ith the mold of millennia.

Carrol

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Michael Smith Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 5:35 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Star Wars and the death of American cinema

On 12/31/15 5:50 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
> The films of the sixties and even the seventies marked a particular moment
in the history of American cinema. Nothing before or after quite matched it.

Is it possible that there's some genre conflation here? A comedy is not meant to be a tragedy, after all.

The Twentieth Century. Some Like It Hot. It Happened One Night. The Great McGinty. The Palm Beach Story. The Bank Dick.

One could go on and on, but are we blaming Aristophanes for not being Euripides? Everybody rightly hates the splenetic book reviewer who damns the book under his eye because it's not the book he would have written, if he could write books.

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