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- From: s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu (michael bruce mcdonald)
- Subject: Re: 10 ways
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:54:38 GMT
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- In article <CINEMA-L%93012311482862@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>, Rolando Recometa <$W$LB4P@LUCCPUA.BITNET> writes:
- >Where's everybody these days? Busy, perhaps? Well, let me stir
- >things up a little bit. Here, in my humble desperate plea, are ten
- >ways to improve Hollywood -
- > 1. Get rid of sequels, buddy/cop, yuppie
- >redemption, sexpot-from-hell movies.
- > 2. Make sure women get more acting jobs
- >than dogs.
- > 3. Tell boneheads like Arnold Schwarzen-
- >neger to stop doing interviews on topics other than the film he's
- >promoting.
- > 4. Commit Scorsese, Kubrick, Altman,
- >Pollack, Lynch, Cronenberg, Demme, Bertolucci to directing at least
- >one movie a year.
- > 5. Tell Oliver Stone and Spike Lee to give
- >it a rest.
- > 6. Enroll all the studio executives in an
- >Introduction to Film class.
- > 7. If there has to be violence in movies,
- >make it real and disturbing rather than fun.
- > 8. Tell Steven Spielberg to grow up.
- > 9. Make more black AND white films and
- >fewer black OR white films.
- > 10. Make more black and white films.
- > Rolando
-
-
- A great list Rolando, full of wit and wisdom. I agree with everything on it,
- except of course number 5. I say we need *more*, not less, Stone and Lee.
- After all, if you don't like what they have to say, you could put them in
- your "kill" file.
-
- michael mcdonald
-