Comments on: Indy movie avoids critical mauling, but… http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/05/18/indy-movie-avoids-critical-mauling-but/ Entertainment behind the scenes Sun, 7 Sep 2008 09:12:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Mark Fergerson http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/05/18/indy-movie-avoids-critical-mauling-but/#comment-7077 Mark Fergerson Sun, 18 May 2008 23:57:23 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/05/18/indy-movie-avoids-critical-mauling-but/#comment-7077 I am still unclear on the point of showing films like those in the Indiana Jones series at Cannes. This "Hollywood epic" apple being dragged in among the "pure art" oranges of Cannes is reminiscent of Christians being fed to lions in the Coliseum. Your article's title implies a hair-raising escape from critical execution on charges of Artistic Meritlessness thanks to an anticipated commercial-theater rescue by those Ford unapologetically describes as his "customers". We have the spectacle of Commercialism and Art circling one another, snarling and drooling over Indy's still-breathing body... I suppose whoever planned this assumes that audiences really haven't changed in two thousand years. I am still unclear on the point of showing films like those in the Indiana Jones series at Cannes. This “Hollywood epic” apple being dragged in among the “pure art” oranges of Cannes is reminiscent of Christians being fed to lions in the Coliseum.

Your article’s title implies a hair-raising escape from critical execution on charges of Artistic Meritlessness thanks to an anticipated commercial-theater rescue by those Ford unapologetically describes as his “customers”.

We have the spectacle of Commercialism and Art circling one another, snarling and drooling over Indy’s still-breathing body…

I suppose whoever planned this assumes that audiences really haven’t changed in two thousand years.

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