heyzeus wrote:If you don't like Boyhood, you are either a cyborg or were born a 43 year old middle manager who has already erased any trace of memory of what it was to grow up.
Or you hate Ethan Hawke? (was my wife's line, I think he's fine)
While it might be "great literature" (a stupid thing to say about any film), I also don't read literature about kids growing up, I suppose.
So you never read Huck Finn or Catcher in the Rye? That's a shame.
Boyhood is most like a modern cinematic take on Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine." Also well worth reading.
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Not sure what he means by literature, but I'm sure it makes sense to him. He does write screenplays for a living, so maybe he's looking at it that way. Sounds like he's just enthusiastic about it.
heyzeus wrote:If you don't like Boyhood, you are either a cyborg or were born a 43 year old middle manager who has already erased any trace of memory of what it was to grow up.
Yeah, that must be it.
It wasn't a "bad" movie, but it wasn't exactly all that fascinating either. I guess I'm the only one who thought the kid just became more & more annoying.
The literature thing makes sense to me. I don't think he's thinking of literature = books. I think Louis is saying it belongs in the company of Moby Dick and Huck Finn and so on. I agree on the concept, but not on the film, which I found boring and irritating. I do think of The Wire as, so far, The Great American Novel of the 21st Century.
I think storytelling would have been a better word. And I wish there was some sort of high-falutin' way to say 'storytelling' to sort of access all mediums and history with some gravity. Because literature is books. Minor quibble, though.
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heyzeus wrote:If you don't like Boyhood, you are either a cyborg or were born a 43 year old middle manager who has already erased any trace of memory of what it was to grow up.
Or you hate Ethan Hawke? (was my wife's line, I think he's fine)
While it might be "great literature" (a stupid thing to say about any film), I also don't read literature about kids growing up, I suppose.
So you never read Huck Finn or Catcher in the Rye? That's a shame.
When I was a teenager, but not so much in the last 20 years.
I think 'literature' is Louis's way of elevating it. It's him saying it's an important story, not a big dumb Transformers/Avengers kind of thing or a loud dumb Hangover 3/Identity Thief romp.
33anda3rd wrote:The literature thing makes sense to me. I don't think he's thinking of literature = books. I think Louis is saying it belongs in the company of Moby Dick and Huck Finn and so on. I agree on the concept, but not on the film, which I found boring and irritating. I do think of The Wire as, so far, The Great American Novel of the 21st Century.
