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charon
charon
04 June 2009 @ 10:22 am
NOT to be
I just came across a piece of news on a Twilight com about how the director of Twilight wants to do a Hamlet film and said: "You will understand everything without having a copy of Shakespeare for Dummies with you."

I'm not sure what's more irritating. The fact that she thinks "Hey, I've done Twilight, now I'm totally qualified to direct Shakespeare!" or that she thinks the target audience of her movie will be people who are obviously too stupid to understand Shakespeare.
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location: next to a cup of coffee
what: Arcade Fire
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charon[personal profile] charon on June 6th, 2009 - 12:02 pm
Yeah, I will never be able to understand the whole "aim low" mentality. People think something is complicated and they don't even give it a try because of that.

Like, I recently read a book about physics, which was recommended to me by a friend because of its userfriendlyness (for non physicians) and another friend saw that and said "I would never read that, it's way too complicated ...".

But shouldn't something that looks complicated be a challenge? Shouldn't it make you want to read it to prove to yourself that it is possible to read and understand it? Wouldn't that make you feel much better about yourself? Or maybe I'm just weird *lol*
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