{"id":19,"date":"2007-03-15T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/03\/15\/now-i-know-how-vladimir-felt-in-waiting-for-godot%e2%80%a6\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T18:47:57","slug":"now-i-know-how-vladimir-felt-in-waiting-for-godot%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/03\/15\/now-i-know-how-vladimir-felt-in-waiting-for-godot%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I Know How Vladimir Felt in Waiting for Godot\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESTRAGON: Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>VLADIMIR: We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>ESTRAGON: Why not?<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>VLADIMIR: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re waiting for Godot.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>ESTRAGON: Ah!<\/font><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n

PERSON 1: I hated that movie.<\/font><\/p>\n

PERSON 2: That was a good movie!<\/font><\/p>\n

PERSON 1: You liked it?<\/font><\/p>\n

PERSON 2: No, I hated it, but it was a good movie.<\/font><\/p>\n

PERSON 1: Ahhh!<\/font><\/p>\n

I think that Serena <\/a>and Robyn <\/a>both bring up a very valid point: does this whole debate about liking a film verses it being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d even really matter? Obviously it matters to Bordwell and Thompson. But does it really affect the average movie-goer? My bet has to be on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The average American will probably not pay attention to movie reviews, but rather go and see a movie they think they will like based on the movie trailer. And, if the average American movie-goer does pay attention to reviews, I imagine that most of them don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pay attention to who writes them, such as the father of the She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s My Rushmore<\/em> blog owner (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sorry for not knowing your name). Granted, there are those people out there who do actually care if a movie is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or not. I can be that way myself. Now, what is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I have no idea. Is it fantastic cinematography? Is it superb acting? Is it an original storyline? Is it a famous speech? Is it camera motion, or lighting? Who knows? There are many schools of thought on this subject. So how can we know for sure what is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Well, we can listen to the critics, but I personally don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like that idea, because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care for other people telling me what I ought to consider \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or, we can each have our own individual ideas of what makes a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d film. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m willing to bet that there will be some similarities in our ways of thinking, and that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s those similarities would create the canon of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153classic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d film.<\/font><\/p>\n

But then again, like so many of you have said in your blogs, and in class: what does it really matter? If you like the movie, what does it matter if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or not?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESTRAGON: Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go. VLADIMIR: We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. ESTRAGON: Why not? VLADIMIR: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re waiting for Godot. ESTRAGON: Ah!\u00c2\u00a0 PERSON 1: I hated that movie. PERSON 2: That was a good movie! PERSON 1: You liked it? PERSON 2: No, I hated it, but it was a good movie. PERSON 1: Ahhh! I think that Serena and Robyn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ftc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}