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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Amazing Stories 10/5
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 14:39:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 14:39:57 1985
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>>But this was a FARCE.  Different rules apply.  
>>                                     Sue Brezden
>                                     
>Here, we get into the murky ground of artistic intent, of knowing what was in
>the producer/director's mind.  I agree, it was a FARCE.  The question is, was
>it *meant* to be?  I don't think so, though I'm willing to listen to
>arguments supporting that position.

Afraid we'll only know that by asking Spielberg.  My contention that it
*was* meant to be is backed up by the shear mass of silliness in the thing.
Surely even Spielberg knows that aluminum cans aren't attracted by a magnet?
And the characters were obvious broad, comical types.  Spielberg is not
that heavy-handed with characters ordinarily--whatever his other faults.

>My responses are clouded by the perception that for many people, that's all
>SF is -- a farce.  
>-- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet

I find that painful, also.  Especially when my mother or father looks at
the cover of the book I'm reading and says something like "Still reading
that trash?"  Sigh.  But I also know people who were drawn into SF by
such farces.  We have to laugh at ourselves--heartily and often.

-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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