Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film?

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How the fuck was I being pretentious?

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  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Being dismissive of my contradictory opinion, and characterizing the way i view films in general as “strange,” just because i dont see them the same as you, is pretentious. I noticed you didnt question the word “condescension” though.

    I was asked to defend my opinion of a specific film, and i did, and was called “strange” for it. I didn’t knock anyone else for having an alternative opinion, they are perfectly entitled to it.

    Pretention/ condescension is a common occurence in films, and all other art forms. My son, a very knowledgable cinephile, is guilty of it all the time, and i call him out on it regularly (he LOVES Phantom Thread). I have a degree in music history, and have fought against pretention/ condescension in the classical music world as well, where it is rampant. I think non-classical music should be held to the same standards as classical music, and embraced by the classical community when it succeeds. Progress has been made in the last 50-60 years, with acceptance of jazz and Broadway composition, but still has a long way to go for rock and pop music.

    I dont like snootiness in any form. One the reasons i appreciate artist Roy Lichtenstein so much is because he elevated the use of comic book art techniques to be “high art.”

    I’m old now, but when i was young, i deliberately made the decision to not be dogmatic about art, and support democratizing it for everyone without compromising the quality. The main thing that keeps most people from exploring higher forms of art, is the chance that their perfectly valid opinion on something will be criticized by some pretentious gatekeeper, and make them feel humiliated.

    Eh, maybe you’re right, maybe the way I view the entire art world is strange. If it is, I find it liberating. More people should try it.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or, I dunno, maybe you should re-read this thread without the bizarre condescension that you seem to be adding yourself.

      You’re typing out comments like this. That’s why I wished you luckk.

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      • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I watched it multiple times because in a democratic household, I occasionally lose the vote for what we watch, and in the interest of family unity, i accept my fate.

        I don’t think you know what condescension is. I am not trying to show my superiority in undetstanding art, i would like people who are afraid of art because of the sense of being judged to ignore the snooty gatekeepers, and learn how wonderful it is - while not dumbing it down at the same time.

        Over my lifetime, i have helped many people learn to see art without fear of humiliation. I didn’t do that by being condescending and pretentious, and insisting they see art my a specific way. I did it by being welcoming and encouraging them to embrace their own opinions as valid, and not tell them that they have “a strange view of films.” That’s gate-keeping behavior, and i always push back against it. That doesn’t make me condescending, just the opposite.

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