Here's a sample:
Things that are not heroic:
To have an illness. To be a victim. To have a bad hand dealt to you. HEROISM is in still serving others with an illness or bad thing.
To survive your own iniquity. (In the Bill Clinton sense. I heard a lady on TV say that she admired Clinton because he was "a survivor." Well, by that standard, you could admire roaches.)
It isn’t heroic to have a great talent or skill. To be able to run fast or sing well.
Nicolosi, a professional screenwriter, also isn't impressed by Bella, the new movie some pro-lifers are rallying around. I worry Nicolosi's standards can be too artistic and elite-oriented. Surely there is a craft to making popular mediocrities. I suspect the aspiring artist must first know mediocrity before he can know excellence.
Then again, I haven't seen the movie and don't plan to. When the film's own publicity highlights the fact it is made by "first-time filmmakers," I'm not inspired to open my wallet.
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Does Nicolosi like anything? After her bashing of Stranger than Fiction I opined that it could be if you're too familiar with film-making, most films are ruined for you. It's not dissimilar to how most Scripture scholars find no joy in Scripture, getting hung-up on technical details while missing the whole point.
I think she's a natural contrarian who hates "the herd". But, as I told anotehr herd-hater recently, sometimes the herd is right.
Nicolosi recently praised The Assassination of Jesse James, and I remember she liked Gibson's The Passion.
I thought Stranger than Fiction was lacking, but I was constantly comparing it to Muriel Spark's The Comforters.
Point well-taken concerning The Passion, although my corrosively cynical side wonders whether it mattered that she was given a pre-screening with Gibson and got to talk to him for an hour. Must. stop. being. so. cynical.
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