tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post5247563106637415877..comments2024-02-05T00:16:13.698-05:00Comments on Banjo52: TRAGEDY IN LITERATURE AND FILMBanjo52http://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-23117760322656982282011-09-03T19:55:37.524-04:002011-09-03T19:55:37.524-04:00I see your point on Ahab, the greatness, the magni...I see your point on Ahab, the greatness, the magnificent obsession. But is he a fundamentally decent human? I don't remember feeling any affection for him or seeing him as a good guy who just got carried away. I wonder too, can obsession with REVENGE be magnificent? Or is it an inherently lesser, even base human drive? <br /><br />I don't know the others recently enough or well enough to opine. I did have a thought about Winter's Bone, but I've only seen it the one time . . . I think it's worth discussion. <br /><br />Brenda, don't know Shadowlands. I hope your real life examples are jokes! <br /><br />Thanks on the photos. What I really meant, I guess, was that I was too lazy to drive a little west to see the sun set on Lake Michigan. But I'm OK with what I got--no flaming orange, more subtle, yet maybe not boring?Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-46375044018878762532011-09-03T18:30:49.458-04:002011-09-03T18:30:49.458-04:00It occurred to me that the main character in the f...It occurred to me that the main character in the film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er6_39K27Yo&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Biutiful,</a> might fit between the cracks in terms of your point of view. Do movies count if they're not adapted from a book? anyhow this one is haunting like Winter Bones. Interesting spin on redemption and human nature. It's left an impressionPasadena Adjacenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09031325790590238246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-64868279987158225202011-09-03T09:48:43.730-04:002011-09-03T09:48:43.730-04:00C.S. Lewis? As portrayed in Shadowlands? His '...C.S. Lewis? As portrayed in Shadowlands? His 'fall' was of an emotional bent - having spoken so strongly, so repeatedly on the laws of God, faith - only to fall when Joy dies. Tears fall, he falls, she dies.<br /><br />Not at all what a is tragedy, but as a fall, it is realized. <br /><br />Probably some would throw in Ken Lay, Bernie Madoff, Charles Manson, Eliot Spitzer? <br /><br />Oh wait, are we to be discussing literature here? Oh. <br />Well, your photos are lovely. East to see sunset, eh? I'm confused...Brenda's Arizonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880225110712592548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-85797377537095447602011-09-03T08:43:46.338-04:002011-09-03T08:43:46.338-04:00Scarlett O'Hara, Tom Joad, Quasimoto, Captain ...Scarlett O'Hara, Tom Joad, Quasimoto, Captain Ahab?Pasadena Adjacenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09031325790590238246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-81225878788438272312011-09-03T07:04:38.175-04:002011-09-03T07:04:38.175-04:00AH, well-played! Remember now, I'm only tryin...AH, well-played! Remember now, I'm only trying to pass on the thinking of Aristotle. Of course, that means he's filtered through BanjoBrain . . . I wonder how he'd feel about that.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-42663963855955010212011-09-02T23:44:23.823-04:002011-09-02T23:44:23.823-04:00Oh, I like what you said and how you said it. I di...Oh, I like what you said and how you said it. I disagree completely.<br /><br />Will be back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com