"Danton" and "Darnton" must stop being only one letter off from each other. It's making me confused.
Anyway, I agree with you on Danton. If I say I think it's brilliant it's more because - not that I know much about films, but - it's gorgeous and well-acted and really very clever - Wajda is definitely talented. But it does seem a little scary in retrospect that we watched it in 10th grade history. (It was actually what triggered my interest in the Revolution - so I guess I personally was not destroyed by being served Wajda in lieu of history - but so I also know what kind of impression it makes without any prior knowledge of the events!) Ah, I think I understand better what you mean now. Right, I recall some that rubbing me the wrong way too. It does seem rather narrow-oversimplified (I expect there was a little more variation in opinions than that..) - and though of course I was not around to see what attitudes were like on the eve of the bicentennial, what he describes seems a bit.. contrary to other impressions? (It was a good book, though, by the way - I had never read Darnton and came across it by chance at the library. It's also full of deliciously nerdy stories about publishing during the Enlightenment.)
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Date: 2008-08-22 12:51 am (UTC)Anyway, I agree with you on Danton. If I say I think it's brilliant it's more because - not that I know much about films, but - it's gorgeous and well-acted and really very clever - Wajda is definitely talented. But it does seem a little scary in retrospect that we watched it in 10th grade history. (It was actually what triggered my interest in the Revolution - so I guess I personally was not destroyed by being served Wajda in lieu of history - but so I also know what kind of impression it makes without any prior knowledge of the events!)
Ah, I think I understand better what you mean now. Right, I recall some that rubbing me the wrong way too. It does seem rather narrow-oversimplified (I expect there was a little more variation in opinions than that..) - and though of course I was not around to see what attitudes were like on the eve of the bicentennial, what he describes seems a bit.. contrary to other impressions? (It was a good book, though, by the way - I had never read Darnton and came across it by chance at the library. It's also full of deliciously nerdy stories about publishing during the Enlightenment.)