AdamSmith

My beef is that American musicals take very fine story lines but them set them to the most schlock music. The direct inverse of what, say, Italian opera does. For which one can of course also complain.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqOqwGeCrU

From ‘Barbarellar...’ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C_N7ggu7mvc

I love The Wiz etc. But for Christ’s sake. To say stage/screen musicals are on the same level as Dostoevsky et al. as works of art...

Is it art compared with the above and their like? We will soon be admiring Willy Wonka.

Seems you are just saying movies in general cannot be art at all. https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/17-rare-times-when-director-made-five-or-more-great-films-row Very odd POV.

Musing on it, wonder why you think Kubrick's films were linked to a particular era. To me (as to great directors quoted in my posts elsewhere here), they were more like the timeless works of Homer, Dante, Chaucer, etc etc than to 'the '60s and 70s.'

Well, once again, we shall just have to agree to disagree.

Still curious to know why you don’t like Baldwin. How the Vietnam facts are relevant is a mystery.

I find considerable value and potential for insight on reflection when a query of that sort is put to me. I pose them to myself every day.

I let go when I left. Then declined efforts to get me back in. But hilarious long episodes of self-inflicted stupidity in one's life provide vast humor in retrospect. And useful self-knowledge. Can you not see the difference?

I don’t know if I will ever stop the complaining. Maybe randomly one day it will switch off. Stuff for me goes on until it vanishes in a puff of smoke. Your life might benefit greatly if you could develop some sense of humor. Mingled with bits of other positive perceptive things you do already possess. See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

People don’t read what they don’t want to hear. Especially when it speaks truth to power.

Still curious about your beef with Baldwin. His work seems to me more relevant now than ever.

One hopes never to grow up.

How many people read Spencer’s The Faerie Queene today? That seems a scant measure of the greatness of a body of work. Rather a marker of our own shortcomings, laziness, chosen ignorance.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QKGbguoildA

Why do you think that?

Have not looked at the Other Site in many moons. Never will.

Kubrick's film 'Clockwork Orange' does not come immediately to mind?

Had no idea. Not to express doubt, but how did you come by this info?

Nobody gets it right all the time. You take on interesting difficult challenges, aim at the dartboard and throw, then see what sticks, and how near the bullseye. I certainly don’t get it right anywhere near 100% of the time. Do you?