From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 10:33:56 MDT
She carried a party card and most nazis were opportunists. Just as when the
commies took over Eastern Germany, did the nazis throw away their party cards
and take up the comunist cards. She certainly didn't make any more
commerical flicks after the 1920's, everything devoted to to dear adolph. Her
African movie during the 1950's was crap.
Comparing her work to movies today is like comparing apples to
oranges-especially movies that are not devoted to mass crowd scenes, which is
all she really ever did after 1930. She couldn't direct a genuine commerical
hit if her furher depended on it. So all we have are her Alpine films of the
1920's which were rather good, her prop films of the 30's and 40's; her
African stuff during the 50's. Compare that to John Ford, Hitchcock, Capra,
George Pal...no comparison. I wonder if these directors were assigned to
cover political rallies and could control crowd placement, like Reifensrahl,
what real talent would have done?
Quoting Dan:
<<I never claimed to hate Leni Riefenstahl... In fact, I wish she would
make more films. (She was not a Nazi anyhow -- just a opportunist.)
She certainly beats most other living directors today.
Anyhow, when I judge any form of art, I look at what I believe to be
esthetic qualities -- not ideological agreement. (Well, I also despise
being bored by any work of art. So, if it's great esthetically, but
boring, I'm likely to reject it. This is kind of how I feel about many
of Schubert's orchestral works...)
Aside from that, evil in film covers a large area. Anything with Adam
Sandler in it, e.g., and most films with Julia Roberts.:)
Cheers!>>
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