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 More options Aug 7 2012, 9:48 am
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From: tomcervo <paradisfa...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:48:42 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Aug 7 2012 9:48 am
Subject: Re: The Magnificent Ambersons (USA) 1942
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On Aug 7, 2:45 am, David O. <DavidCOber...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:13:21 -0400, Bill Anderson

> <billanderson...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Technically it's pretty much the equal of Kane, but I've never cared
> >much for Ambersons.  More specifically, I don't care for the some of the
> >people in Ambersons.  The young man who takes his mother to Europe and
> >ruins her chances for happiness along with several others' including his
> >own is just unbelievably, unforgivably stupid.

> I have a theory that it's a powerful, melodramatic illustration of
> themes from Thorstein Veblen's THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS.

> A few of my feminist friends from grad school also saw it as a
> critique of the patriarchy: George delimits his mother's value by
> preventing her (in essence) from pro-creating, just as his father and
> uncle delimited his aunt Fanny's value.

> AMBERSONS is the supreme filmic treatment of turn-of-the-century
> industrialization in America, and succeeds in glamorizing automobiles
> and machinery as much as it glamorizes an earlier age. I'd love to see
> the 1925 movie adapation of the novel (PAMPERED YOUTH).

The remains are on the Criterion laserdisk. Nothing special, except
for the unintentional comedy--the ending is even worse than the one
RKO substituted. Morgan rescues Isabel from a house fire, and George
is reconciled to their marriage.

 
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