Drama (was What I didn't like about TTT)

[Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>]

Pip wrote:
 
> "Waiting for Godot" (Samuel Beckett)is quite a successful play; 
> despite it being so (deliberately) boring that a good production is 
> signalled by less than a third of the audience leaving at the 
> interval [theatre joke]. 
> 
> But even Godot has dramatic tension and conflict at its heart. 

Exactly.  Conflict, dramatically speaking, doesn't have to involve 
battles or rivalries or even outright arguments.  It can be as 
subtle a matter as a single human heart trying to assimilate a 
painful belief.  So we might travel up this thread a couple of steps 
and wonder how we got to the pronouncement that The Lord of the Rings, 
as written, has insufficient conflict to sustain a film.

Amy
who loved My Dinner with Andre