...I can't help but feel frustrated that the richness of different kinds of writing, with different ends and likewise different means, is not recognized by the critics, and by extension, the readers. Because if it was maybe we'd be producing a richer variety of work.
http://www.wetasphalt.com/?q=node/125
he was only talking about 'flat' versus 'round' characters, but i don't suppose it would hurt to expand his point to encompass other things.
his argument (particularly in the above quote) also raises red flags re:the inherent dangers in my posits for those 'other things', but what's life without a little danger, yeah?
thanks to Paul for the link.
and *this* is going to be so cool:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/grindhouse_hd.html
(watch Quentin Tarantino rant about the flick over on youtube.)
well. it looks as though it's going to be so cool. the Transformers trailer is promising as well:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html
not quite the Transformers most of us know (and the pace of the trailer seems a bit wanting, imho), but hell, i reckon i'll bite.
damn movie ticket prices these days. particularly where i'll probably be when the movies hit. arg. 'As the philosopher Jagger once said: you can't always get what you want...'
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