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Unless the film is supposed to be a faithful historical reproduction of a specific period in time; I don't think it matters. Postmodernism is very difficult to
by lwhi 16y ago
Unless the film is supposed to be a faithful historical reproduction of a specific period in time; I don't think it matters.
Postmodernism is very difficult to achieve without liberal use of anachronisms. I think many of the films referenced have postmodern traits.
- sprout 16y agoNot to mention "Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid" he explicitly says it's a parody, and silly anachronism and poor design choices are pretty standard for parody. If I were doing that film today, I could see using Comic Sans for the newspaper.
- julius_geezer 16y agoIndeed. Hollywood spends too damned much time trying to get period details right & omitting what matters. Steven Spielberg puts enormous effort into the visual details of films that are hollow at the center (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List).
- trafficlight 16y agoThat's the first time I've ever heard somebody say that Schindler's List is hollow. I find it to be very moving and an excellent portrayal of the horrors of the Holocaust. What don't you like about it?
- julius_geezer 16y agoThe story itself is moving, as heroism in a good cause will be. But making art requires more than such a story as its point of departure. The movie has what I regard as Spielberg's usual flaws: a taste for cheap trick, the quick laugh, the tremendous visual sense without much behind it. I'm sure that anyone in occupied Poland who could afford to look like that, did. I gain no particular insights into what anyone in particular might have felt or thought. Watch Europa, Europa or The Pianist, and I think you will see much superior movies--though these are even more on the periphery of the true horrors than Schindler's List.
- julius_geezer 16y agoFor "the true" read "worst of the".