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In The Sixties, The Recycling Of Pop Culture Turning It Into Pop Art And Camp Had Its Own Satirical Zest. Now We're Into A Different Kind Of Recycling. Moviemakers Give Movies Of The Past An Authority That Those Movies Didn't Have; They Inflate Images That May Never Have Compelled Belief, Images That Were No More Than Shorthand Gestures And They Use Them Not As Larger-than-life Jokes But As Altars.

At The Movies, We Are Gradually Being Conditioned To Accept Violence As A Sensual Pleasure. The Directors Used To Say They Were Showing Us Its Real Face And How Ugly It Was In Order To Sensitize Us To Its Horrors. You Don't Have To Be Very Keen To See That They Are Now In Fact Desensitizing Us.

All Our Advertising Is Propaganda, Of Course, But It Has Become So Much A Part Of Our Life, Is So Pervasive, That We Just Don't Know What It Is Propaganda For.

Tasteful And Colossal Are - In Movies, At Least - Basically Antipathetic.

Protagonists Are Always Loners, Almost By Definition.