[Ads-l] "symbol" in film crit

[Mark Mandel]

Maybe. Remember what happened to Caesar.

MM (2000?)

On Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 4:43 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, but you'd think he'd have said so.
>
> JL
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 4:31 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Maybe the idea is that that they must be symbolic croutons if they’re
> > going to be mixed with motor oil, blood, and urine, while the literal
> ones
> > are more appropriate for soup or Caesar salad.
> >
> >
> > > On Oct 13, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Had enough of "allegory"?  Then move on to this, where "symbol" seems
> to
> > > mean no more than "striking visual element":
> > >
> > > 2010  America Magazine
> > > https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/745/film/crosshairs  :  They’re
> > > definitely not afraid of metaphor. Along with the fractured lens of the
> > > gunner’s viewfinder (sustained halfway through), salad croutons are a
> key
> > > symbol, mixing with motor oil, blood and urine in a way that will put
> you
> > > off the crunchy comestibles for weeks.
> > >
> > > The critic never explains what they symbolize.  I've seen this movie
> (as
> > > they say) twice, and the movie croutons are key symbols of real
> croutons
> > > only.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > >
> > > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> > truth."
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