@mia11112233 Luckily I have already read moby dick and crime and punishment so I am ready to dedicate myself to this
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personally, i’ll probably pass on reading this. there are a lot of other books out there that i’ve been meaning to read like moby dick and crime and punishment and realistically those are going to be taking up a lot of my time. i hope other readers enjoy it though.
Ryan Schreiber@ryanschreiberfm
I’ve spent my career telling other people’s stories. Now, I’m telling my own. I’m pleased to announce that my memoir, "WEIRD ERA: How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever," arrives December 1 via @fsgbooks. Pre-order here: tinyurl.com/weird-era
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Joyce had plenty of people walking in and out of rooms (just look at the first story in Dubliners). I get the "point" but its dumb to think Joyce wasn't a master at every level.
Stephen Piccarella@spiccarella
This is why critics and academics think the greatest novelist is Joyce or Flaubert but writers know it’s like Dorothy L. Sayers
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Squinting my eyes to see if i can find hitler in here
Pixel Symphony@Pixel0Symphony
Paul Klee, Portal of a Mosque. 1931. Oil on canvas.
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@11111111111Adam @DonaldClarke63 It is still a film about an outsider and it works because Kubrick as an outsider in Britain can get into his character's mind.
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@oldbrass @DonaldClarke63 Ireland and Britain are way more similar and also closer to eachother than Portugal and Japan
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This is nothing like McCarthy
😶🌫️patrick preziosi😶🌫️@PatrickPreziosi
Cormac McCarthy really jacked Charles Neider’s whole swag h
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@11111111111Adam @DonaldClarke63 Barry Lyndon is also a poor Irish boy on adventures across Europe who settles in England after marrying a rich noblewoman.
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@oldbrass @DonaldClarke63 … Scorsese wasn’t a Japanese resident and also at it’s core Silence is about foreigners in Japan so it’s a different example
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@11111111111Adam @DonaldClarke63 Not really. Do you think Kubrick was asking advice from the British crew on how to make the film? Its an American's vision of a British story.
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@oldbrass @11111111111Adam No, you haven’t. And you’re demonstrably wrong. I suspect you now know you’re wrong, but, this being TwXtter, you can’t say as much. Good evening.
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@DonaldClarke63 @11111111111Adam I have been quite clear that I am talking about what country deserves the credit for a film in a "moral" sense because the discussion is about style.
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@oldbrass @11111111111Adam Sorry? What? WHAT!?!? What *are* you talking about then?
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@oldbrass @11111111111Adam Oh for fuck’s sake. Yes it is. Of course it is. That’s how it appears in all listings. If you want to write to Warners and get them to change it go ahead. And then edit IMDb and Wikipedia. Knock yourself out.
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@oldbrass @DonaldClarke63 Just off the fact that it’s an adaptation of a British novel it inherits the novels ironic and cold humor that I feel is very characteristic of Britain. Also I think the pace and the controlled performances are somewhat more aligned with British cinema. The heavy focus on class…
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@DonaldClarke63 @11111111111Adam I think its case by case and Lyndon isn't a British film.
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@oldbrass @11111111111Adam Just as Kubrick is making an American film here — and a British one. Just as Lawrence of Arabia is both American and British. This really isn’t complicated.
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@DonaldClarke63 @11111111111Adam I am just an old fashioned auteurist. You pair Godard with a bunch of Americans, he is still making a Godard film ie a French film.
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@oldbrass @11111111111Adam Mate, you’re talking about a film that has a British DoP, a British editor, a British production designer. The crew are majority. British. It’s shot entirely in Britain and Ireland. Of course it’s also British.
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@oldbrass @DonaldClarke63 The film is very British all around stylistically
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@DonaldClarke63 @11111111111Adam Silence was shot in Taiwan and funded in part by Mexican and Taiwanese companies and features a large cast of Japanese actors and is based on a Japanese novel. It is still just an American film.
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@oldbrass @11111111111Adam Maybe. I dunno. have no idea what you’re now arguing. Barry Lyndon is both a British and American film. It’s simple as that.
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@DonaldClarke63 @11111111111Adam We are talking about style. Alex Webb's photographs of Cuba are not Cuban photographs.
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@oldbrass @11111111111Adam Yes. And a Nepalese film obviously, particularly if it was shot and set in Nepal.
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