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- From: ych@cs.utah.edu (Yuan Hsieh)
- Subject: Re: Dracula (Spolier?)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:42:35 MST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.114236.19441@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Keywords: minor spoilers
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <26552@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1992Nov16.151525.27922@hellgate.utah.edu> <26695@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
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- In article <26695@optima.cs.arizona.edu> margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman) writes:
- >I was in to the story, trying to see what new twists there might be. Nothing
- >of interest, nothing that glued me to my seat. It's funny, sometimes. You
- >and others go to a movie, come out, and start discussing it, and it's like,
- >did we really see the same movie?? Maybe I did miss something, but I'm
- >not going to suffer through it again.
- >
- >margaret
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- I am not implying that you missed the point about Dracula being a love and
- horror story. Nor am I implying that Dracula is a good romance movie. Since
- I simply do not enjoy watch romance movies as a genre, I cannot criticize the
- story in that aspect.
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- However, with all that aside, I enjoyed the movie.
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- On reflection, I agree with you that the plot and the characterization are
- weak. But, the pretty pictures, all by themselves , somehow, developed an
- atmosphere that drawn me into it as I sat and watched the movie. I felt that I
- was in the same time and space as they were, even thought I was not interested
- with the characters on the screen. And, by been in that universe,
- the story enhanced itself.
-
- Perhap, I did see a different movie than you. I saw the movie as
- a story composed of images, and you saw a movie in term of written
- plots, spoken dialogues and character interactions. Different aspect of the
- same movie, but I believe equally valid.
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- I hope this clarifies whatever it is that we are discussing, and maybe we
- will just have to agree to disagree.
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- -Y'
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