[Ads-l] allegory

[Jonathan Lighter]

 Please explain the allegory.

JL

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:50 AM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm very confused. I would expect movie criticism to use "allegory" often,
> when talking about allegories (such as Casablanca, which is an allegory
> about America isolationism).
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 8:59 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It may be common usage in movie criticism.  Discovered serendipitously:
> >
> > 1975 Richard Corliss, in Howard Koch, ed. _Casablanca - Script and
> Legend_
> > (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press) 198:  _Casablanca_...succeeds as
> > allegory...and as a superb romantic melodrama.
> >
> > Corliss, of course, for decades was film critic for Time magazine .
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:47 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I deny the allegory and I resent the alligator.
> > > We didn't receive it - perhaps you needed more stamps.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 3:08 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I deny the allegory and I resent the alligator.
> > > >
> > > > > On Sep 8, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 2019
> > > > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/review/2019/02/21/never-look-away-is-a-detached-and-arty-look-at-turbulent-times.html
> > > > > :
> > > > >
> > > > > "Never Look Away is a sprawling allegory of the artistic impulse,
> > > arrayed
> > > > > on the canvas of the Second World War and the rise and fall of the
> > > Nazis.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > There's nothing symbolic or particularly metaphorical in this
> movie,
> > > highly
> > > > > fictionalized from the life of the German artist Gerhard Richter.
> So
> > > > > "allegory" seems to mean something like "interesting or provocative
> > > > > dramatic representation."
> > > > >
> > > > > JL
> > > > >
> > > > > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> > > truth."
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