FILM SNOB!
I saw Casshern today. It’s the type of movie I usually don’t like or even watch al the way through. It was depressing and mostly incomprehensible. And yet… and yet for some reason I liked it. Maybe it was because of the incredible imagerey, maybe it was because of the various homages to popular Sci Fi films and anime, or maybe I just like movies with cheesy anime heroes and villians.
Quick I’ve got to be sure!
Do I like 8 1/2?
Do I want to watch Un Chien Andalu?
Do I think Fellini is the greatest director who ever lived?
NO, NO, and NO! Thank goodness. I’d better go rewatch The Stupids just in case.
I have never seen 8 and 1/2
I have never seen any Fellini movie
I have seen a couple Luis Bunuel movies but not Un Chien Andalu
I love the mucical “Nine” by Maury Yeston. It is based on the Fellini film 8 and 1/2 but what I love is the music and lyrics and songs and how I love to sing them. Do I have a better understanding of Federico Fellini? No. But I sure do love the songs.
> I saw Casshern today. It’s the type of movie I usually don’t like or even watch
> al the way through. It was depressing and mostly incomprehensible. And yet…
> and yet for some reason I liked it.
A pretty obscure film if you’re going to claim to be a film snob just on that basis. I’d never heard of it before, and I think I have a pretty good knowledge of even minor cult films. I’d say that you just happen to like this film (and I have no idea how good it is) and there’s no way to tell what your reaction to other incomprehensible films will be like.
There are a lot of more standard but hard-to-understand films which would be a better test to see if he has turned into a “film snob.” If he suddenly, for instance, began liking Fellini or Bunuel films that would be better evidence that he has turned into a “film snob.” On the other hand, liking one rather obscure film doesn’t prove much of anything. The vast majority of “film snobs” have never even heard of this film.
Liking obscure and arty movies doesn’t make you a film snob, at least not in the pejorative sense of the word “snob.” It’s when you start to think that makes you a better person than the guy at the Transformers movie that you become an asshole. If you like an obscure movie, you’re just a guy who likes a certain movie.
Don’t kid yourself, furryman. You’re doomed. Soon you’ll be using your elevated cinematic insight as a tool by which to condemn and belittle others. It’s only a matter of time until you find yourself drawn to the one arthouse theatre in town, where you and your new circle of pale acquaintances will sit around discussing Truffaut’s able deconstruction of *mise-en-scene * and harshly condemning Bergman’s **The Serpent’s Egg ** as too “amusing.”
For the record, I like Bunuel; but not for reasons of film snobbery. I just think he’s funny.
