Dead Teenager Wasteland

[jetpack_monkey]

Earlier this week, I sent an email to Roger Ebert taking him to task for denigrating "dead teenager" films in service of the AFI's most recent 100 Best Movies list.

He published it. As the first letter in this week's Movie Answer Man column. I don't like his answer, but dude. Ebert published my letter. Dude.

Also, he left my website URL on at the end.

Comments

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I wonder if he meant to call Vertigo a cowardly movie in that it doesn't go far enough (which, uh, what?) or whether he meant to call out the theme of cowardice in the film. My guess is the former, although I think you may be onto something in the latter.

*ponders* Is Jimmy Stewart's vertigo a psychological extension of his cowardice, then? Interesting how he only overcomes it properly when he goes all freaky-vengeful.

[bellatemple]

*nods* It's been awhile since I've seen it, but between the actual vertigo Jimmy Stuart's character experiences and the whole trying to transform the woman into someone he already knew and missed to both be extensions of cowardice.

But, yeah, whoshisface was probably referring to the former. Still it was a good thing to ponder while waiting through two hours of nothing to do at work.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

*wades through two hours of something -- would still rather be talking about Vertigo*