SR XXX: Erasershred

aginor wrote: the movie Jaws by Steven Spielberg are loosly based upon the storyline of Henrik Ibsens Enemy of the People (en Folkefiende) fra 1882 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People   quote from wiki "Critics such as Neil Sinyard have noticed similarities to Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People.[78] The Ibsen work features a doctor who discovers that a seaside town's medicinal hot springs, a major tourist attraction and form of revenue, are contaminated. When the doctor attempts to convince the townspeople of the danger, he loses his job and is shunned. This plotline is paralleled in Jaws by Brody's conflict with Mayor Vaughn, who refuses to acknowledge the presence of a shark that may dissuade summer beachgoers from coming to Amity. In the film, Brody is vindicated when more shark attacks occur at the crowded beach in broad daylight. Sinyard calls the film a "deft combination of Watergate and Ibsen's play". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)

Jaws a 'deft combination of Watergate and Ibsen's play' ?  That's a fairly ludicrous comparison, Jaws (a fictional horror film) and Watergate (a real event) have about as much in common as Aliens and JFK

If film critics weren't allowed to make ludicrous comparisons, they would have anything left to write about.

Henry Plainview wrote: If film critics weren't allowed to make ludicrous comparisons, they would have anything left to write about.

hmm, so true, but you can compare anything with anything else, you'll no doubt find something.  Hell Jaws is deft blend of Close Encounters and Gilligan's Island.

I feel so avant today.

You mean you feel like it was yesterday?

so it is totaly unheard for that Steven Spielberg might have read Ibsens Enemy of the People and that it might have dripped into the storyline, I have seen the play on Youtube (american film version which is verry good and I will recomend it), but I have not sean Jaws so I can't really know what im talking about

Edited by aginor - January 23 2011 at 17:26

sure Spielberg may have been influenced by many things, but basic plot devices are common tools for storytelling and don't indicate poaching, even unconsciously

Henry Plainview wrote: My second sentence follows because companies are reluctant to hire, especially young people, because so many people are lazy a****les whose primary goal to do the least amount of work possible without getting fired. I am glad that you have escaped being a cashier, though. Unless computer monitoring is your second job?

2nd job sadface.

I'm not really lazy about work. My I'm waiting to see if I get that scholarship, if not no college and that job's gone, I would assume. And since I've never been fired from a job or left on anything but good terms, I'd say I'm pretty damn hire-able, except for no degree yet sadfacepart2. But I can communicate like a mofo, so even if I get a degree in bumf**k whatever I can probably get a decent job, even though I probably won't cause I want to do something with music. I'll probably end up working at guitar center...and knowing more than 90% of the people in that store.

I need this assignment!

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