Spielberg and the 6 Million

[Andrew Dinn]

davemarc asked me:

> 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?  

Are you suggesting that I am making suggestions? Your ever so humble
moral posturing cuts no ice, I'm afraid. You read what I wrote. If you
can add it up to make 5 then don't blame me for the rounding error.

And I will say in amplification of my previous point that on both
aesthetic grounds and when judged on her craft as a propagandist
Riefenstahl beats anything I have seen by Spielberg hands down. But
then maybe Spielberg just has it real easy compared to Riefenstahl. He
has a fat, complacent, self-important and self-centred public to
manipulate. Riefenstahls's public was hungry, tired and angry. Nothing
like an easy ride to lower the quality of one's art, eh?


Andrew Dinn
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