Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:24:56 -0700
From: "gary patrick norris" <ngary2-AT-qwest.net>
Subject: Re: lost dawg becomes Crouching Tiger


>
>
>Crouching Tiger was important for me as visual experience.  I recommend it
>with caution.  Knowing nothing of the martial arts genre others speak of,
>I'm free of that frame of reference.  The commercial aspects and gender
>aspects are of little interest.


certain academics...elitists, typically...find enjoyment in crapping 
on anything that appeals to someone because it is appealing. 
appealing films get labeled "western" by western critics, as if it 
were a meaningful pejorative, and "hollywood" as if all films with a 
huge budget aren't artistic.




lot's of creep academics don't appreciate AFFECTION.  And I am 
referring to affection in the Kantian sense.



I'm glad you enjoyed the film, because it is beautiful.

I thought it was beautiful, too.



g
-- 
Every visible power is threatened, especially when it
rests on a usurpation that alienates both its victims
and its accomplices.  Thus the detective's tactics are
those of the minister and the Chief of State.  Power will
be shady or will not be at all. . .
     --H de Balzac, Introduction to Une tenebreuse affaire


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