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11 Jul 2008 03:54 pm
Bollocks
Bryan Appleyard responds to James Bowman's paleocon lament about Hollywood:
The
movies are as full of heroes as they ever were, though it may be true
to say that the apparent horizon of heroism has narrowed. It is a
commonplace of contemporary heroes that they are aware of their
limitations and do not, unless they are superheroes, expect to save the
nation or the world. Indeed, it is a crucial aspect of their heroism
that they fight on in spite of this. To wish, as Bowman does, that the
movies would feed an (entirely fictional) audience appetite for
supposedly traditional heroes is to miss the peculiar beauty of which
both film and especially TV is now capable.
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