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KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 27 Jan 2011, 07:24 ---you'll have to run the racism part by me
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I said vaguely racist. Mostly this impression is based on The Darjeeling Limited, a film I have only seen brief parts of because it was really bad. I will admit to not having fully perused the entire ouevre because I find every one of his films I've tried to watch frankly embarrassing as cultural artefacts. I have seen bits of most of his films though; I once shared a house with several film students, one of whom was obsessed with like, Anderson and Michel Gondry.
Tom:
Ozymandias:
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 27 Jan 2011, 15:14 ---
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 27 Jan 2011, 07:24 ---you'll have to run the racism part by me
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I said vaguely racist. Mostly this impression is based on The Darjeeling Limited, a film I have only seen brief parts of because it was really bad.
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so you saw part of a movie with brown guys in it, which is also a movie about tourists, and are now tossing arguments of "vague racism" at it. i say this only because there is a potential argument to make about it but like i'm not sure it's an entirely intellectually honest argument since it relies on deep misunderstandings of the main characters (viz. that in fact the white people in the film are quite strongly cultural tourists, and that they gloss over the diverse complexity of the nation by doing goofily what their mother does in a serious and equally problematic way, which on a second viewing was one of the most interesting subtexts of the film)
sorry i just enjoy wes anderson's arch, precious films about rich people*
*from which category you should probably exclude bottle rocket, which is decidedly not about a bunch of privileged people's problems, and rushmore, which is in part a film about a dude from the outside of wealthy america's odd little social sphere trying desperately to become a part of it and discovering that in fact acts performed in the worship of social status are somewhat hollow in the face of acts formed from a desire and need to connect empathetically to other human beings
Tom:
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