The Hinterland
Rants from the hinterland. A Denver writer and pretend anthropologist rips into artistic treason and random acts of ethical violence.
May also contain gushes of enthusiasm.

Saturday, April 30, 2005


Mike Nichols

Haven't liked his movies in quite awhile, and his wife makes my skin crawl. But I've been watching his Charlie Rose interview over the past few days, and he is really insightful about film, theater, novels--all the narrative arts.

Interesting little thought just as I'm writing this:

"There's deep confusion, especially with movies, between what the movie is about, and the likeablity or dislikeability of the characters. People now, largely--especially people who write about movies--judge the movie by whether they like the people.

"If a guy at the studio--and such things have happened to all of us--If a guy at the studio says, 'Listen, does Lady MacBeth really have to be so unpleasant and so ambitious? Can't she be more of a role model for young women?' . . .  We're all confused between the dancer and the danced."

Interesting.

Not necessarily representative of the discussion--I was more interested in the parts about creating the art--but indicative of the insights.

Very interesting about the deep confusion out there.
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