It's funny, I think your Ordinary People vs Raging Bull comment excellently underscores the original article. Raging Bull is a cinematic masterpiece. As "art a

It's funny, I think your Ordinary People vs Raging Bull comment excellently underscores the original article. Raging Bull is a cinematic masterpiece. As "art as art" it is sublime. It is a love letter to film. Ordinary People is an emotional masterpiece. As "art as therapy" it is sublime. It is a love letter to humanity. When people "steal" from Raging Bull it's fairly obvious and usually surface level. Plenty of people stole from Ordinary People, too, it's just harder to spot because what they stole is more psychological and subtextual. Just as a simple example, the most iconic televison show of the last 30 years (The Simpsons) cribbed way more from Ordinary People than Raging Bull. If you look, it's easy to spot the influence throughout the series' run. But there's no single iconic shot like their Raging Bull slo-mo homage in "The Homer They Fall." What does it even mean, to remember, to steal, art...?