NP - Terrence Malick SUCKS!

[Danny Weltman]

"(I think his thesis at college ... Yale? ... Harvard? ... was on a
Christian theme ... sorry to be vague.)"

I have not read the thesis, but Wikipedia says: "After a disagreement with
his tutor, Gilbert Ryle, over his thesis on the concept of world in
Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, Malick left Oxford without a
degree. In 1969, Northwestern University Press published Malick's
translation of Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons."

I am going to go out on a limb and say that Malick has a bit more going on
with his philosophy than it being "basically Christian," at least insofar
as that label would be derogatory enough to make the influence of the
philosophy a "derailing" one as opposed to a guiding one or some other
neutral or perhaps praiseworthy adjective. I can say that one need not be
Christian in the last to find his stuff extremely compelling, as I do. It
perhaps helps that 99% of the time, when someone uses "pretentious" as a
derogatory term, it marks something I'm liable to enjoy. I'm lacking the
organ that generates bile when exposed to ostensibly pretentious stuff,
somehow.

Danny

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:

> His first two films, Badlands and Days of Heaven, were extraordinary in
> telling a tale visually instead of through dialogue.  After a long gap, he
> returned, but his basically Christian philosophy, which seems to go
> unnoticed, has derailed his recent films.  (I think his thesis at college
> ... Yale? ... Harvard? ... was on a Christian theme ... sorry to be
> vague.). Al they all seem the same .... ladies in summer dresses twirling
> in meadows as an emotional high point.
>
> On Nov 27, 2016, at 6:30 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All of them!  The only one I could stomach was "What Dreams May Come."
> But even that is pretentious beyond belief.  WHY do people like his shit?
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sunday, November 27, 2016, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Which one?
>>
>> > On Nov 27, 2016, at 6:10 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I HATE his shit!!!! How did he ever get it funded?
>> >
>> > David Morris
>>
>
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