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> just another entitled, grumpy old man, bitching and moaning
you forgot to add "white" and "cishetero" in there @reason ; how are you possibly going to make the pinkhaired communist youth like you if you only speak 80% of their talking points?
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3/ > I'd like to suggest Scorsese's aesthetic critique—which by his own admission is uninformed—is simply mere snobbism. Having elite preferences is bad, old white cishetero men - how DARE you not like what the postliterate genderqueer communist youth like ?
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4/ Basically, I'm agreeing with Scorsese and disagreeing with
@nickgillespie and@reason and also the#pulprev crowd here - popularity is not the sole measure of artistic worth, and it can be noble to NOT write for the widest market. Reading Writing Down the Dragon recently >Show this thread -
5/ Filled me with even more respect for Tolkien than I already had. Dude didn't give a fig about popularity; he cared about making the most of his talents and his time on earth to craft the absolute best subcreation he could. That's why people will read Tolkien in 500 years >
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6/ And no one will remember the Avengers movies in 100. It's absolutely fine to bring momentary joy to folks by making popular entertainments. No shame at all in being a working man and cashing a check. But oh so much better to be a Tolkien.
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I think the bigger question is why are so many people bothered by Scorsese’s comment. My whole life none of my parents nor my siblings liked superheroes - it didn’t stop me from enjoying their stories
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