Cinematic Lit Shortcomings

[cyrano]

I know they're arty and deep and stuff but I don't have much patience for films about rich kids who act outrageously, fill their world with extravagance and hedonism, and then sigh privately because their lives feel empty and without meaning.

Comments

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Holden Caufield scenario. Some people love these things, but I'd rather... watch Twilight.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

*shudder* Holden Caulfield. I think I wouldn't have hated that book (and all of Salinger by extension) if my instructor hadn't waxed so rhapsodic about how every teenager identifies with our boy HC.

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

Heh. Did you have Ms. Carmen? She... clearly was going to grade papers better that liked it, so I'm afraid I contributed to her delusions, on a fair number of topics. I got an A in that class, but felt dirty about it.

Though, honestly, she prepared me for a certain type of college professor very well!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I pretty much learned the opposite lesson--any penalty is worthwhile so long as you can feel morally superior afterward. (:

[darth-snarky.livejournal.com]

I was going to guess which movie you were talking about, but then I realized that your description really doesn't narrow it down at all. I was thinking in an Italian vein, but then there's the rest of Europe. And plenty of examples on this side of the Atlantic...

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

This one in particular was American, but they are a bit omnipresent. And for all I know, Smokers got better after the half-hour mark. But I'll never know.