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- From: redrum@carson.u.washington.edu (Joe Stremick)
- Subject: Re: BSD - Who to root for?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.000857.8817@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:08:57 GMT
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- In article <Ef1nhiO00WBN46GYEY@andrew.cmu.edu> wp11+@andrew.cmu.edu (W Darren Prouty) writes:
- >
- > I managed to catch Coppola's film of Bram Stokers Dracula opening
- >night with a packed house and must say that it had some of the best
- >cinematography I've seen in years. However, the movie had one huge
- >fault, there was no definite protagonist or antagonist.
-
- This was one of the things I liked about the film. It
- would have been too easy to have some great hero figure (and
- it wouldn't have been as true to the book). Some of the best
- films have no clear definition of "good guys" and "bad guys"
- For example: Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai,
- Blade Runner, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, etc. Real people
- are rarely so pure, and I like it when the audience has to
- grapple with who to identify with and root for, if anyone.
- It lends a degree of realism and complexity to the characters,
- and consequently makes them, and the film as a whole, more
- interesting.
- Of course, sometimes it works to have these clear
- definitions; _Star Wars_ and _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ are
- two excellent examples, for they feature heroes and villians
- that come across as real even in the light of their dualistic
- nature.
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