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Re: Movies (Tarantino vs. The Who)



Leo wrote:
>Tarantino spent his teenage
>days in trendy LA during the height of New Wave and in '82 people who loved
>New Wave loathed The Who (in my experience anyway).

Tarantino is part of a movement which has been going on for about twenty years 
now in the arts called "post-modernism."  What the end result of it has been 
that style and surface values are valued far over artistic meaning.  New Wave, 
sometimes dismissed as "haircut music," was one of the earliest examples.

Tarantino's films, as much as I enjoyed "Pulp Fiction," hold to that value.  
For all their violence and drug-taking and language, there's no meaning 
behind it, only style.

Of course, The Who are almost directly opposed to this.  They had a lot of 
style, but that style ultimately was in the service of meaning.  Stylists like 
Tarantino would prefer much lighter music which was "cool" to Who music which 
requires feeling and anger and tears.

			-Brian in Atlanta