Seriously, though. He was talking about the visceral emotional experience of seeing it on the screen, not the philosophical satisfaction of knowing a movie studio might make a movie aimed at you. I get tha you can't relate...
I can relate to being happy at seeing a black man elected President. Through that, I can relate to being proud of seeing certain roles portrayed, but it's a separate experience from enjoying the art.
...but you're wrong to discount the power of fantasy.
I only do so for myself, and - slightly - as an old guy who doesn't get the kids today. The latter stance says as much about me as about the kids.
I saw a headline last week, and I forget if it was in my news feed or if it was a link on another site I was reading. I haven't read it yet, but the headline said (I read this in Whoopi Goldberg's voice): "Black Kids Don't Want To Read About Harriet Tubman All The Time."
Why would they ?
I loved the sentiment. Not that people shouldn't know or care about Harriet Tubman-- of course they should. But peoples' imaginations and dreams and fantasies deserve much more varied fuel than stories from a dark time in history.
The real diversity comes now, after the "first" one... when nobody gives a
****.
David Mamet writes a lot of movies for people like me, but also people like you. You would like his politics, maybe. I'll put a link to an interview he did last week with WTF.
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