(06-16-2023, 05:46 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(06-15-2023, 06:37 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: I never knew No Country For Old Men was a book. I thought the movie was great. I'm going to have to read that book now.

I’ll have to read it as well. The two books of his I’ve read so far are excellent, and books are always better than the movies. With one exception. Stanley Kubrick made The Shining so much better than the book, to Stephen King’s frustration. King finally got a movie made that was faithful to the book and it sucked.

It's interesting to think about the dominant art-forms of various eras in history.  In the 1700s and 1800s it was painting, sculpture, and music, and we still go to museums and people still listen to classical music from that era.  Right now, the dominant art form seems to be video- television and the movies.  Kubrick, Spielberg, and others like them might be the Beethoven and Rembrandt of our era, and their art will probably be admired 200 years from now in the same way.  Dr. Strangelove was made 60 years ago, and I still enjoy it.  Same with Charlie Chaplin, from 100 years ago.  Great art survives, and the great artists of today seem to be the ones making movies.

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