Re: James Cameron - God Among Screenwriters or Hack?
Ah ... European. Now I understand.
Look -- we all approach film with certain biases that are an amalgamation of our personal experiences, tastes, gender, what-have-you and - yes - country of origin.
One of my biases is how female characters are portrayed. Which love story would I want my daughters to be influenced by?
The love story in Titanic or the love stories in Notting Hill or Bridget Jones?
Titanic - hands down. I could write a dissertation on why I'd prefer this one. But I'm fully aware it's due to my predisposed biases.
As for the American POV... we are a weird bunch. We are in general ridiculously optimistic. Insanely so. Where Europeans can see (and rightly so) all the signs showing the human race is going to hell in a super-sonic handbasket, the American says, "Yeah, but -- if we roll up our sleeves and work hard .... happy ending!"
This is who we are. It's ingrained in everything we do. And - I suspect - our films are globally popular because deep down inside even world weary Europeans want a happy ending. But they'd never admit it out loud as often as we Americans will.
Where you see tons of horsepoop, we Americans are looking around thinking, "Where's that lovely pony? It's got to be around here somewhere!"
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Look -- we all approach film with certain biases that are an amalgamation of our personal experiences, tastes, gender, what-have-you and - yes - country of origin.
One of my biases is how female characters are portrayed. Which love story would I want my daughters to be influenced by?
The love story in Titanic or the love stories in Notting Hill or Bridget Jones?
Titanic - hands down. I could write a dissertation on why I'd prefer this one. But I'm fully aware it's due to my predisposed biases.
As for the American POV... we are a weird bunch. We are in general ridiculously optimistic. Insanely so. Where Europeans can see (and rightly so) all the signs showing the human race is going to hell in a super-sonic handbasket, the American says, "Yeah, but -- if we roll up our sleeves and work hard .... happy ending!"
This is who we are. It's ingrained in everything we do. And - I suspect - our films are globally popular because deep down inside even world weary Europeans want a happy ending. But they'd never admit it out loud as often as we Americans will.
Where you see tons of horsepoop, we Americans are looking around thinking, "Where's that lovely pony? It's got to be around here somewhere!"
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