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- From: s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu
- Subject: Re: Coppola's DRACULA
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:05:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.234108.14833@linus.mitre.org>, jon@MITRE.org (J. E. Shum) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec24.225326.6478@Princeton.EDU>, egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward G. Nilges) writes:
- >>
- >....... A WHOLE LOT of deconstructionist drivel about FFC's Dracula .....
- >>
- >
- >You know I almost started to rebut the previous posting until the aroma
- >of PC crap reached my nostrils and I knew that rebuttal was neither
- >necessary or useful. Mere burial will do.
- >
- >Happy Winter Solstice all!
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-
- You can dismiss all that business about the Serb anti-Muslim propaganda in
- Dracula as "PC crap," but I for one appreciated the poster's thoughtful
- sensibility, which involved a lot more work than your one-liner crap.
-
- Actually, my own "PC" critique of Dracula involves Coppola's incredibly
- insensitive depiction of Gypsies, people who have long been denigrated
- precisely for *serving no one but themselves*, as Dracula's all-too-
- willing--and literally speechless--slaves. As much as some folks might
- want to insist that films are purely for entertainment, they do tell us
- a lot about conscious and unconscious cultural attitudes, and too much
- of what Coppola tells us in Dracula does not become him; frankly, I thought
- he was smarter and more sensitive than this.
-
- By the way, the opening of Dracula coincided almost to the day with the
- German government's decision to encourage Gypsies living in Germany to
- "return" to Romania. If you don't think there's a connection between
- such political decisions and the way the Gypsies have been and are
- depicted in works of "culture," I frankly pity you.
-
- michael mcdonald
-