Posturing on Pynchon-l

[David Casseres]

>Here is another example of what strikes me as truly bizarre posturing, in
>which participants seem to feel a need to evaluate Spielberg's filmmaking
>not in terms of, say, Lang, Hitchcock, Bunuel, or Scorsese but in terms of
>Goebbels and Riefenstahl.  Oh, how daring.  I guess the US government should
>have brought Riefenstahl--apparently the Werner von Braun of
>moviemaking--over to Hollywood, instead of settling for her former
>colleagues Lang and Billy Wilder.

Now, Pynchon readers should really enjoy this challenge:  Which is more 
preposterous?

  A. Evaluating Steven Spielberg's films in terms of Lang, Hitchcock, 
Bunuel
     or Scorsese;

  B. Evaluating Steven Spielberg's films in terms of Goebbels and 
Riefenstahl;

  C. Getting into an interminable catfight about Spielberg in a forum 
supposedly
     oriented toward the work of Thomas Pynchon.


Cheers,
David