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Oliver Stone Hates the Internet, Likes the Internet's Money

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FaceMelter
10/14/09

In reply to Oliver Stone Hates the Internet, Likes the Internet's Money
Watching film online is nothing like watching Opera on tape. As much as Stone likes to jack himself off, film is recorded, edited, and packaged. Sure, you may be able to draw some great moments from the performers during production, but once you record, cut, and distribute it, you lose all of the raw spontaneity that live performance has. As such, film will never contain the feeling of anxiety that accompanies the possibility that anything can happen in the next moment. It is contrived, controlled, and by definition, subject to simulacrum.

As far as the theater experience goes, sure something can be said for watching film in a dark smelly theater while munching on stale popcorn and rubbing elbows with a stranger, but something can also be said for watching the same film at home on a large screen with good food, friends, and family.

Have fun cutting Wall Street 2. High art my ass.
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Pope John Peeps II
10/14/09

@FaceMelter: His point wasn't that watching a real film at home isn't art. His point is that the availability of film tools and uploading sites means that anyone and everyone who doesn't care about film can just produce their masturbatory wank pieces and upload them, and so they never have to learn the craft of making a movie. It's like how everyone has 800 friends who are "photographers" because they buy a fancy digital camera and take close-up-shots of dew on flowers and ice on iron fences without knowing shit about photography or ever having taken a lesson.
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yourfriendandneighbor
10/14/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Actually, I was there and he did also say that watching a film at home on your television is not art. He went off about hi-def tv's and how they make a flim look like it was shot "backstage by Entertainment Tonight with Humphrey Bogart." The man is an elitist ass. Who makes shitty films.
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FaceMelter
10/15/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I hear what you're saying, and I have a bunch of asshole friends who fancy themselves photographers, but there are different types of photography. Anyone can be Cartier-Bresson. #oliverstone
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raincoaster
10/14/09

In reply to Oliver Stone Hates the Internet, Likes the Internet's Money
Oh hey, wasn't Turdblossom a regular commenter on Deadspin? Wow, s/he's really come up in the world!
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raincoaster
10/14/09

In reply to Oliver Stone Hates the Internet, Likes the Internet's Money
Alternate title, "Oliver Stone: not as stupid as we thought."
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PaisleyPajamas
10/14/09

@raincoaster: Or, "Oliver Stone: The Cocaine-Fueled Divinity."
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