----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Thornton To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: 2/15/2007 5:12:30 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: The Long Goodbye
TL wrote in response to something Jim said (for those of your
scoring at home):
>Terrill wrote:
>
>"Jim, you're assuming Altman thinks being a loser is
a bad thing. If you look at just about any of his films it is
pretty clear to see that he sympathizes with the losers over
the winners every time."
And then I said:
>Yeah, sure. Take THE PLAYER, for examp- oh...
uhhhh.... that is....
And then Terril said:
>You're saying he's on Griffin Mill's side in that
movie?
Let me be clear, I don't think Altman took a side here. Your
stated position was that he sympathized with the losers. My
take was that for Altman, art ought to imitate life, and thus
he was willing to blur the lines either a little or a lot,
and leave things messy (like he did in nearly every film of
his I've ever seen, success or failure). For what it's worth,
THE PLAYER is absolutely my favorite Altman movie. It's
darkly comic, and Tim Robbins is incredibly successful at
making the odious Griffin Mill a sympathetic point-of-view
character. How could one not root for him, even though he's a
leech, a drag on society, and everything that any sort of
true artistic soul would be against?
Well, he's also a murderer. That ought to count for
something.
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