Tony Williams wrote: > On this developing desensitization issue in recent Hollywood movies, reade= rs >may want to look up Geoff Brown's review of TWISTER in yesterday's (July 24= ) >LONDON TIMES (also available in Web format). Brown commented upon the tende= ncy >within this Spielberg-Crichton product to treat human beings as playthings >for special effects dominance. It is a feature characteristic of other >contemporary films. Although this "treating human beings as playthings for special effects= dominance" stuff sonuds interesting, I think TWISTER (a good film, in my= humble and naive but not so naive opinion) cannot be blamed on such matters= as, say, JURASSIC PARK. In TWISTER, the relation between a group of humans= and nature is what counts, and (in spite of how the film was marketed and= reviewed) special effects are not very important. The bottom line is (again= IMHANBNSNO) that there is no such thing as a "Spielberg-Crichton product"= in terms of film appreciation or, if you want, in terms of film= appreciation outside "film studies" paradigm. By the way, PULP FICTION is not a good example of a violent film in any= sense. You should look at ACE VENTURA to find fascism in Hollywood. Quintin El Amante Cine Magazine Buenos Aires, Argentina http://apriweb.com/amante/ =20 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]