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Subject:	How to decide what art is worth (was Re: Extropianism
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Date:	Sat, 21 Aug 1999 22:38:08 GMT
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Jesse Long wrote: > I'm saying that the masses prompted the movie makers in these two cases to > dumb down their movies and lower the quality because they didn't like the > endings. I'll grant that they may well have changed the endings. But what of it? Who is to say that the ending they chose is "lower quality"? How do you define quality in this context? George Lucas is free to choose to organize his films however he chooses, and if he decides to make an ending that will be popular with many, why is that "wrong"? If you don't like the ending and would have preferred a different one, don't go. But stop being elitist by insisting that a sad ending is somehow "better" than a happy one. We're talking about entertainment here, after all, not the NEA, which loots from the taxpayer to fund what it feels "proper" art should be. Pah. Talk about elitist! We're not fit to judge what proper art is, but we have to pay for it anyway. Art that cannot find a buyer is valueless, **by definition**, because the value of a thing is exactly what a willing buyer will give up to possess it. If no one wants it, it has no value. -- Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar - - - Web Application Integration! http://www.novera.com fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ Member ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet. NOTE: I have left CTP, effective 18 June 99, and my CTP email will not work after then. Please switch to my Novera ID.

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		Re: How to decide what art is worth (was Re: Extropianism
(...) I apply the "in my living room" rule to art. If I'd be proud to have it displayed in my living room it's valuable art. If not, it may still be art, just not in my living room. Lots of the junk you find on college campuses, in fact most of it, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: How to decide what art is worth (was Re: Extropianism
Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37BF2A50.B6DC18...ger.net... (...) Quality takes time and effort. You can't just throw something together and have it be quality, unless you're some kind of genius. In films, quality can be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37BBD004.F53CFD...ger.net... (...) I'm saying that the masses prompted the movie makers in these two cases to dumb down their movies and lower the quality because they didn't like the endings. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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