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

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z <lupinesque at y...>" 
<lupinesque at y...> wrote:
< 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

I'm avoiding all of the LOTR-movie discussion, since I probably won't 
see it for at least another week. But I have to agree with Amy (with 
whom I seem to agree on numerous topics) that My Dinner with Andre 
was a *wonderful* movie which had no "action" in the traditional 
sense. IIRC it has literally a handful of characters and basically 
just one set, but it's one of the most engrossing movies I've ever 
seen. Despite being one of the "smallest" movies ever made, it's got 
one of the biggest hearts.

Anne
(who thought My Dinner with Andre gave new meaning to the 
phrase "talking heads")