Date: 6 Nov 1996 12:28:22 -0400
From: "jsherburne(cont-trp)" <jsherburne-AT-snap.org>
Subject: RE: Seinfeld


>Seinfeld has been progressing along the same kind of route to sit com purity.

I was thinking the whole subject was kind of silly at first, but I think I
know what you are talking about.  Actually, I think television entertainment
in general is heading in a similar direction - towards a point where narrative
and plot will be completely unneccessary.  I can't help compare Seinfeld with
early Marx brothers films and how there would always be a part of the story
where Zeppo would fall in love with a woman and the movie would check in on
them from time to time.  It seemed so irrelevant - merely thrown in to justify
the antics of the Marx brothers.  Alot of 50's science fiction films have the
same kind of tacked-on romantic subplot.  

I'm no cinema expert, but there seems to be a line of narrative films that
downplay the importance of narrative - "Satyricon" and "2001: A Space Odyssey"
spring to mind.  I'm sure I am missing a bunch of others.



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