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Old November 27th 17, 09:55 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Daniel60
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On 23/03/2017 1:22 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 03/22/2017 08:40 AM, Wolf K wrote:

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Movies aren't novels.

I recall a review of 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Saturday Review. The
reviewer just didn't get it. He thought of "film" as literature in
another medium: that he was watching a novel instead of reading it. One
of the things that annoyed him was that the dialogue was banal. Of
course it was, it was the kind of purely functional talk real people say
in real life. But long stretches of the movie had no dialogue at all,
which I think is one reason the reviewer didn't understand the movie.
Nobody was explaining it to him.

Have a good day,


There were also a lot of breathing sounds (what you'd expect to hear in
a spacesuit).

BTW, I saw that movie in a theater when it was new. I remember a scene
near the beginning where the apes were sitting around, and there was a
message at the bottom of the screen saying "our forefathers". People in
the theater seemed to think that was funny. I've seen 2001 several times
after that, and the message was missing.

(catching up on old posts, here!!)

In 1983 or 84, I paid $75 (a sizable crunch of my weekly pay) or so for
a Beta (yes, Beta!!) Video of "2001, A Space Odyssey". That tape
probably would have been viewed two or three times a year until the Beta
Player finally died in 2004. Fortunately, before that I had brought a
DVD of the film, which I still have and still watch about twice a year!
(so much other stuff to watch!!)

Some of the Classic Revival type Cinemas still show it, usually, late on
a Friday!

Daniel
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