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"Andrew Albert J. Ty" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:26:24 +0800
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I think the success of The Usual Suspects (which was a film I enjoyed the first
 few
times I've watched it but I'm momentarily suspending aesthetic judgment for the
moment) could have something to do with the post-Pulp Fiction rise of what we
 may
call gangster chic films (what some other critics call neo-noir). The Usual
 Suspects
came in the midst of this craze, and I think this was also around the start of
 the
so-called mainstreaming of the independent film, a point which supposedly
 reached
its apex during the Academy Awards ceremony which saw Oscars for The English
Patient, Shine, etc. Of course, these films are strictly not as independent as
 they
are (were) purported to be, but that's another debate, I think.
 
Andrew
 
 
> Subject: Re: Unreliable narrator & other _Mortal Thoughts_
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:06:14 -0700
> From: "Edward R. O'Neill" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> SNIP!
> But then what should one make of the relative success of the
> latter film over the former?
>
> Sincerely,
> Edward R. O'Neill
> UCLA
> General Education Program
 
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