tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post8719860468294228180..comments2023-10-30T11:57:26.749+01:00Comments on SCREENVILLE: Critical Fallacy 8 : PrejudiceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-26814087680429261962011-06-02T12:15:10.113+02:002011-06-02T12:15:10.113+02:00"It is never too late to give up our prejudic..."It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields."<br /><br />Henry David Thoreau, <i>Walden</i>, 1854HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-5753139077812011202008-10-29T12:23:00.000+01:002008-10-29T12:23:00.000+01:00Roger Ebert: "Be prepared to give a negative ...Roger Ebert: "Be prepared to give a negative review. If you give one to the work of a friend, and they're not your friend any more, they weren't ever your friend. As Robert Altman once asked me, "If you never gave me a bad review, what would a good review mean?" He was a great man. He thought over his words, and added: "But all your bad reviews of my films have been HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-44533589270433609742008-07-03T22:35:00.000+02:002008-07-03T22:35:00.000+02:00Ronald Bergan in The Guardian (July 3rd, 2008):"Is...Ronald Bergan in <A HREF="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/07/ronald_bergan_blog.html" REL="nofollow">The Guardian</A> (July 3rd, 2008):<BR/><BR/>"Is it possible (or even desirable) for film criticism to be free from personal bias? In fact, in the 70s, when interpretation followed semiotic and structuralist models often augmented by Marxist historical and Freudian psychoanalysis, hidden HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-61704941588786582722008-06-04T19:02:00.000+02:002008-06-04T19:02:00.000+02:00You're right that a positive aspect of the languag...You're right that a positive aspect of the language barrier is "exoticism" (the superficial appeal of an original folklore we are less familiar with). Actually, in my mind, a prejudice can be either positive or negative... the point is that it departs from reality one way or the other hence gives a wronged criticism. It's equally bad for a critic to overestimate the actual qualities of a film.<BRHarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-48448814312474368892008-06-04T01:59:00.000+02:002008-06-04T01:59:00.000+02:00You mentioned in your post that "language barrier....You mentioned in your post that "language barrier... may lead to misunderstanding, oversimplifying caricaturization, false characterisation, cultural blindness, missed in-joke humour, double-entendre, local cultural references, innuendos, regional accents...," but I actually wonder if the opposite occurs.<BR/><BR/>For me, when I watch a film in a foreign language and am forced to rely on Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15198573011927715642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-19048951955443354852008-04-30T17:40:00.000+02:002008-04-30T17:40:00.000+02:00At The House Nextdoor, Matt Zoller Zeist: "And it’...At <A HREF="http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2008/04/jan-michael-vincent-is-synonym-for-70s.html" REL="nofollow">The House Nextdoor</A>, Matt Zoller Zeist: <BR/>"And it’s not enough to say you love this movie because you saw it at a particular time in your life, or you were having a good day when you saw it. (...) It may be entirely possible that you see a movie that is innovative in some way,HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.com