This will be a movie that will be seen differently by those like myself who watched Young Peoples Concerts and others. So for us we simply don't have the question about how important Bernstein was. Bernstein lived in media - including TV. So for me and folks my age... we are just too steeped in Bernstein, who was all over from Broadway t…
This will be a movie that will be seen differently by those like myself who watched Young Peoples Concerts and others. So for us we simply don't have the question about how important Bernstein was. Bernstein lived in media - including TV. So for me and folks my age... we are just too steeped in Bernstein, who was all over from Broadway to TV to hosting black panthers in his home which functioned like a salon. Have not see yet... but my sense of Bernstein is different from that noted here by folks much younger.
This is not a new matter. I gave my son a book about Davy Crockett - a man well known to folks my age. My son read it and he said he could tell that Crockett was a figure known to many but he could tell that Crockett's time had passed. Which it has.
I also saw clips of the movie and since I knew Bernstein well, I was curious how this public figure would be presented (and usually the presentation is not convincing). But here Bernstein is very convincing.
Sonny may recall that I made, finally, almost the exact same point after objecting to his panning of the movie in his written review of it. My daughter is a film maker & a novelist who nonetheless can't connect to references I make that are part of my & my generation's experience. So, the question may really be what responsibility does one artist who creates a piece about another artist have to educate/enlighten his audience about his subject's reason to be looked at in ways other than their notoriety and/or importance to their medium. The fact that Sonny, who is looked to for his opinions about film, is, at his own admission, ignorant of how & why Bernstein was such an artistic force but Alyssa is not, is clearly a problem, as Nicole reinforces in her mention of her niece's similar ignorance, but it should not, imho, be something that was Cooper's responsibilty...it's a good film...not a masterpiece or career defining work, possibly, but not the failure that S & A insist it is.
This will be a movie that will be seen differently by those like myself who watched Young Peoples Concerts and others. So for us we simply don't have the question about how important Bernstein was. Bernstein lived in media - including TV. So for me and folks my age... we are just too steeped in Bernstein, who was all over from Broadway to TV to hosting black panthers in his home which functioned like a salon. Have not see yet... but my sense of Bernstein is different from that noted here by folks much younger.
This is not a new matter. I gave my son a book about Davy Crockett - a man well known to folks my age. My son read it and he said he could tell that Crockett was a figure known to many but he could tell that Crockett's time had passed. Which it has.
I also saw clips of the movie and since I knew Bernstein well, I was curious how this public figure would be presented (and usually the presentation is not convincing). But here Bernstein is very convincing.
Sonny may recall that I made, finally, almost the exact same point after objecting to his panning of the movie in his written review of it. My daughter is a film maker & a novelist who nonetheless can't connect to references I make that are part of my & my generation's experience. So, the question may really be what responsibility does one artist who creates a piece about another artist have to educate/enlighten his audience about his subject's reason to be looked at in ways other than their notoriety and/or importance to their medium. The fact that Sonny, who is looked to for his opinions about film, is, at his own admission, ignorant of how & why Bernstein was such an artistic force but Alyssa is not, is clearly a problem, as Nicole reinforces in her mention of her niece's similar ignorance, but it should not, imho, be something that was Cooper's responsibilty...it's a good film...not a masterpiece or career defining work, possibly, but not the failure that S & A insist it is.