And in any case, he got all his inspiration from this tall skinny guy with white skin who talked white on black. (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Sandman_%28DC_Comics/Vertigo%29) I don't recall an outcry when that story was told. That was fantasy? Well, so is this.
This film, if it's really that bad, will pass and slide into oblivion with Reefer Madness and all the other mistaken polemics, if polemic is what it really is. (People in film and television have been known to make misleading statements if it boosts the exposure.) If it changes a few people's minds, I'm sure there will be books and documentaries and newspaper articles by the ton intended to change them back, which will only serve to convince still fewer people that there must be something in it or they wouldn't be trying to cover it up, ha ha. If it gives a few benighted souls a couple of hours of harmless enjoyment, I'm sure they'll suffer for it in their next lives or whenever.
Snobbery is a very nasty thing indeed and I do not condone it. Either way up. But anyone who is this easily convinced that Shakespeare's plays could only have been written by a lord...is a snob anyway, and probably ever shall be.
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Date: 2011-10-30 02:23 pm (UTC)This film, if it's really that bad, will pass and slide into oblivion with Reefer Madness and all the other mistaken polemics, if polemic is what it really is. (People in film and television have been known to make misleading statements if it boosts the exposure.) If it changes a few people's minds, I'm sure there will be books and documentaries and newspaper articles by the ton intended to change them back, which will only serve to convince still fewer people that there must be something in it or they wouldn't be trying to cover it up, ha ha. If it gives a few benighted souls a couple of hours of harmless enjoyment, I'm sure they'll suffer for it in their next lives or whenever.
Snobbery is a very nasty thing indeed and I do not condone it. Either way up. But anyone who is this easily convinced that Shakespeare's plays could only have been written by a lord...is a snob anyway, and probably ever shall be.