06-09-2003, 04:36 PM
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| To Have and Have Not never gets the respect that the earlier Casablanca receives, but is in some ways a better film. |
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| You managed to get the essence of Tati’s film to just a couple of sentences, George. |
Thanks. I don't know if you noticed, but Roger Ebert had another article on Tati in yesterday's paper, focusing mostly on Mon Oncle.
On the whole happy ending thing, movies have a start and finish, but almost always the stories are unbounded (back stories going on and on into the past as well as lots of future stories). So while a movie has a happy ending if things are good at that point, the story is going to continue to have it's ups & downs, though we'll rarely be able to do more than speculate about it. And even sequels and prequels eventually run out.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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