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""Atonement""

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Anonymous tommy said...

Steve, would you consider giving us youngsters a list of your top 10 favorite films. The Man Who Would Be King would have to be up there. What else might a twenty-something have missed?

I would also be interested in Udolpho's picks. You both have good tastes in film.

2/15/08, 6:17 AM

Anonymous mq said...

Atonement was a horrible movie -- almost a parody of the "prestige" art film genre. All swelling strings and implausible sentiments.

Lots of physically beautiful actors striking poses, though!

2/15/08, 12:12 PM

Anonymous Hans Gruber said...

"Atonement was a horrible movie -- almost a parody of the "prestige" art film genre."

It was bad. I actually liked the first 1/2 of it though. But I hated the last half. Ugh. Wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

2/15/08, 1:50 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Atonement is symptom of a disease. Modern society with it's hook-ups with a drop of a hat can't sustain romance movies with conventional plot-lines: i.e. will the lovers unite?

Because if they don't they'll simply unite with someone else. Sex without limits kills romance -- how else are the audience to understand the partners love each other?

Probably modern romance stories need to borrow from Judd Apatow. Make the audience worry if the partners will stay together in the era of endless choice and alternatives.

2/15/08, 2:33 PM

Blogger Robert said...

"Diving bell" a mistranslation? It's true that the standardized French term for diving bell is "tourelle de plongée", whereas the archetypal "scaphandre" is a rigid hard-helmet diving suit OR space suit.
The figurative connotations for the author's purpose are the same. As a translator, especially of a book or film title, you go with words that have a good ring in the target language and convey the connotations in the source. That's a *good* translation. Can you do better?

2/15/08, 5:52 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

But in the movie, they repeatedly _show_ "le scaphandre," and it's most definitely not a diving bell, it's a diving suit.

2/16/08, 4:19 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This blog should be called "stuff that the liberal white people we only sortof hate like." I mean--comeon. Diversity--as in smelly food and affirmative action? I like to travel--and to be able to afford it. And I don't like things that fatten my gut or thin my wallet.

I don't like democrats. I don't want free healthcare. I don't like Obama.

They got me all wrong.

Of course, there was this black guy at one place I worked who basically said,

"You're a liberal treehugger. You're probably gay."

"No I'm not. Am I dressed like that?"

"Well, that's just at the office (giving me a second chance.)"

"No. I'm a republican."

"Oh. You're an a--hole."

4/13/08, 2:03 PM

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