tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336649512006385402.post4967811117032313108..comments2023-10-26T07:41:21.592-07:00Comments on Defining "Cool"--Can it be Done?: emileigh18http://www.blogger.com/profile/15632704653991962424noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336649512006385402.post-68687094554884981332009-02-09T23:07:00.000-08:002009-02-09T23:07:00.000-08:00You've hit on one of the ironies of interpreting a...You've hit on one of the ironies of interpreting any type of art. One way of looking at it is like this: Let's say you're an artist and you develop a new art style. You don't really see it as a new art style, but as an expansion on old, time-tested principals. Yet when future generations look at your artwork, they see the beginnings of a Renaissance on which all things afterward come from. <BR/><BR/>Is the artistic revolution any less viable because you didn't realize you were doing anything differently besides using a different type of paint, perspective, brush, etc? No, because what has come after you has already legitimized itself on the basis that it came from you and no one else.<BR/><BR/>The same way with film - there's no doubt that some of the things we read in to Casablanca were indeed read into it, transposed on top so we could see nothing else. Yet it doesn't make it any less viable, especially when people build on their interpretations of the work. If the idea becomes concrete enough, it's going to stick - regardless if we take something that wasn't meant at all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07331961951316180787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336649512006385402.post-20933857844540531692009-02-08T12:49:00.000-08:002009-02-08T12:49:00.000-08:00Meaning doesn't have to be explicitly introduced i...Meaning doesn't have to be explicitly introduced into a story for us to find it. So even if the filmmakers have no idea that they are telling anything meaningful, it can still be so.fjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06827891221669580321noreply@blogger.com