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Re: Bicentennial Man (don't bother)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:23:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > You say that as a mortal. :-) I don't want to .debate this, but I do want to
> > highlight (and I guess I may be spoiling some of the plot here) that this
> > character already WAS immortal, practically. He was faced with the choice of
> > trading it away for what *I*, in my value system, consider scant payment...
> > the acknowledgement of others. He already had the right to own property. Who
> > cares what other people think? Not me. It was a bad trade.
>
> I haven't seen the movie (yet), so I hadn't been taking it into
> consideration. I'd consider it a bad trade, too - but then it wasn't me
> making the choice. To him, it may have been worth it (and I'll shut up now -
> at least until I see it).
Just a side note: don't see the movie--it's awful. Well, not awful,
exactly, but pretty darned uneven with not a single moment giving us any sense
of what Robin Williams' character really has at stake. The short story is a
much better evocation of his character's journey. The Silverberg/Azimov novel
is supposed to be okay, but I'm still sold on the short story.
Dave!
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