Movie people can enjoy the worst schlock and Ingmar Bergman: they throw it all together. For book people, trash and art do not ride in the same part of the bus...more
Well-put. Snob is a snob is a snob . . . and someone who claims that they only read soi-disant 'highbrow' literature either has a lot of spare time or is lying. My mom reads big thick dense historical novels -- and then a handful of Agatha Christie mystery novels partially to change the pace up and partially to recharge her brain.
Often the way movie people validate their tastes in movies is to take junk and declare it to be high art and therefore they are allowed to watch it. I don't remember where I read it but in some book there were two people; one was making jokes about Jerry Lewis, and the other said, "Well, actually, in high film circles, his movies are beginning to be regarded as classics." One's views of highbrow vs. lowbrow are, of course, subjective: I regard Pride and Prejudice as light reading because I've read it so many times. (This does not reflect on the intrinsic worth of the book, as determined by the Pritchard Scale [or whatever it was in Dead Poets Society].) However, that doesn't mean that I can take Plan Nine from Outer Space and declare it High Art. (I've seen it. It isn't.)
And anyone who says they didn't like Jurassic Park, either the book or the movie, because it's too popular (or populist), is either lying or much less intelligent than they think.
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Date: 2004-01-12 02:03 pm (UTC)Often the way movie people validate their tastes in movies is to take junk and declare it to be high art and therefore they are allowed to watch it. I don't remember where I read it but in some book there were two people; one was making jokes about Jerry Lewis, and the other said, "Well, actually, in high film circles, his movies are beginning to be regarded as classics." One's views of highbrow vs. lowbrow are, of course, subjective: I regard Pride and Prejudice as light reading because I've read it so many times. (This does not reflect on the intrinsic worth of the book, as determined by the Pritchard Scale [or whatever it was in Dead Poets Society].) However, that doesn't mean that I can take Plan Nine from Outer Space and declare it High Art. (I've seen it. It isn't.)
And anyone who says they didn't like Jurassic Park, either the book or the movie, because it's too popular (or populist), is either lying or much less intelligent than they think.