Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site im4u.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!jsq From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.nlang.africa Subject: Re: Two films on the !Kung Message-ID: <542@im4u.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 19:08:51 EDT Article-I.D.: im4u.542 Posted: Thu Sep 19 19:08:51 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 04:57:06 EDT References: <539@im4u.UUCP> Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.movies:7717 net.nlang.africa:121 As I pointed out to Prentiss earlier today, the same criticisms apply to The Emerald Forest and Gone with the Wind. I liked the former and detest the latter. The Gods I saw mostly as a satire of white pretensions, put together in a mild enough manner that it could be shown in South Africa. But, then, I *like* slapstick. It is equally easy to read the intrepretation of propaganda for the apartheid regime into it. It mostly seems to depend on whether you think The Gods could be taken seriously as a document of real black or white lifestyles or relations, which kind of depends on whether you already knew much about the situations in the region. What do others think? I'm going to go see N!ai, myself, if it ever shows here. -- John Quarterman, UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech}!ut-sally!jsq ARPA Internet and CSNET: jsq@sally.UTEXAS.EDU, formerly jsq@ut-sally.ARPA Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com