NP Film recommendation (was ...

[Dave Monroe]

And ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> on 28/12/02 12:43 PM, Dave Monroe at
> davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > Calling RPF "anti-Australian"?
> 
> Not at all. Just the rhetorical use you were making
> of it.

Not at all.  I was planning to see Rabbit Proof Fence
(and, hey, whaddaya know, I actually did, unlike my
badly botched Singing in the Rain scheme today, or my
failed attempt at Gangs of New York last Friday; I get
so little out of life ...), we were talking about
racism, you're Australian, RBF is an Australian film
about racism in Australia, well, you do the math. 
Well, okay, you did, though I'm not quite sure where
your figures from.  No, let's face it, we're pretty
well predisposed to see anything the other posts as an
attack somehow on the other.  Also recently read an
article on how yr larger incoming meteors might be
misread as a nuclear strike, esp. if they actually DO
strike.  But as always, the ever-present
possibility-slash-danger of a disjunction between
authorial intention and readerly reception ...

> > Well, my understanding is, it was the highest-
> > grossing film on the continent
> 
> Locally-produced film.

Something I read today misunderstood the situation
then.  Spider-Man, then?  But I was hoping for a
situation like Japan, where Hayao Miyazaki has been
cleaning house on Hollywood blockbusters ...

> The US/world release of which was apparently
> "postponed because its theme jars with post-9/11
> jingoism" (according to today's _SMH_).

Oh, the irony.  From Patriot Games to unpatriotic
realities.  Makes The Quiet American (forthcoming)
even more interesting ...

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