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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: Coppola's DRACULA
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:43:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.164354.13538@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec24.225326.6478@Princeton.EDU> <1992Dec24.234108.14833@linus.mitre.org> <Bzyp9s.A24@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <Bzyp9s.A24@news.iastate.edu> s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
- >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 .....
-
- What is the real definition of "deconstructionist"? Anyone know for
- sure?
- >>
- >>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!
- [....]
- >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.
-
- Good post, Mike, except that if you contend that there is a connection
- that he should know about, why don't you just tell him what it is
- and save your pity for roadkill? It's more constructive (no pun
- intended).
-
- GMS
-