I will also never buy Em a red coat.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Aims - Mar 19, 2008 5:43:46 am PDT #5334 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sue - Mar 19, 2008 5:46:11 am PDT #5335 of 28344
hip deep in pie
Schindler's List made me angry. The more emotionally manipulative and anvilicious it got, the angrier I got. I couldn't believe that Steven Speilberg was turning the Holocaust into entertainment. I am not a Steven Speilberg fan, and I probably should never have gone in the first place.
Aims - Mar 19, 2008 5:51:39 am PDT #5336 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sue, the movie followed the book, Schindler's Ark pretty closely. The book is classified as fiction, but was based on the real events that were depicted in the movie.
Which doesn't negate your feelings about it at all.
Sue - Mar 19, 2008 5:57:15 am PDT #5337 of 28344
hip deep in pie
Sue, the movie followed the book, Schindler's Ark pretty closely. The book is classified as fiction, but was based on the real events that were depicted in the movie.
It wasn't the story, Aimee, as much as how it was told. That red coated girl made me practically roll my eyeballs out of my head. I so saw where that was going and couldn't believe that Speilberg would be so obvious. Anyway, that's why cranky young theatre geeks shouldn't go to Speilberg movies.
amych - Mar 19, 2008 5:59:46 am PDT #5338 of 28344
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That red coated girl made me practically roll my eyeballs out of my head.
This, this and more this. And probably a good dose of Jess's "seen all the real stuff a million times already". It felt to me like it was trying really really hard to make me cry a whole big huge lot, with a kind of obvious manipulativeness that ended up pissing me off instead.
Private Ryan? Same damn thing. Dude should stick to Indiana Jones.
Aims - Mar 19, 2008 6:08:09 am PDT #5339 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.
as much as how it was told.
nods Got it. It's like, Dude, the holocaust manipulates enough feelings without being that manipulative.
amych - Mar 19, 2008 6:11:03 am PDT #5340 of 28344
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Exactly.
Sue - Mar 19, 2008 6:12:34 am PDT #5341 of 28344
hip deep in pie
It's like, Dude, the holocaust manipulates enough feelings without being that manipulative.
Totally. Of course, the guy I was with was bawling his eyes out. He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.
Amy - Mar 19, 2008 6:14:53 am PDT #5342 of 28344
Because books.
Of course, the guy I was with was bawling his eyes out. He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.
Well, that was me. You can spot the manipulation a mile off, but it didn't minimize the effect of what I was seeing, for me. And imagining the real people, the camps, the brutality.
Kathy A - Mar 19, 2008 6:19:33 am PDT #5343 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.
This was me. Watching Saving Private Ryan, otoh, I didn't buy into the manipulation and just felt like I was being jerked around. (Band of Brothers got me, though.)
Looking back on my elementary/middle/high school education on the Holocaust, I'd have to say we had practically none. While in 7th grade, though, I had seen a TV movie on the capture of Eichmann and started reading up on the subject on my own. Back in the late '70s, there were very few books for children on the Holocaust (other than Anne Frank), so I just read adult books, complete with graphic photographs and descriptions.