Spielberg and the 6 Million

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

davemarc asks Andrew Dinn:

> Are you suggesting that Riefenstahl presented "subtle and ambivalent
> truths"?  That her film work, which consisted primarily of acting in
> "mountain movies" and making propaganda films glorifying the Nazi regime, is
> less vacuous than that of Spielberg?  

"less vacuous than that of Spielberg?" - difficult, difficult indeed. 
But maybe less cynical. Remembering a long Riefenstahl documentary, 
what comes to mind is her total inability to think of herself and her 
work in abstract terms, to even imagine what a 'fascist aesthetic' might 
be, to just function on a totally unconscious level, not self-aware at all. 
Spielberg seems a much more clinical (ahh - scientific?) fellow. Maybe 
that is the difference between an artist and an accountant. But my original 
comparison, the one which caused all the furore, was between Goebbles and 
Spielberg - in the terms above, both would be 'accountants', with Goebbels 
maximizing something (yes, THAT something) which Spielberg, today, has 
refined to its monetary essence. Unless there's another step we're as 
yet unaware of (as yet) of course/cause.

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