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There needs to be an archetype for someone who has long career and consistently produces decent to good stuff and occasionally all-time classics into old age.

This is pretty much what I do with all my favorite artists anyway so I don’t know that I’d be able to choose just one. Even the things that don’t do objectively well or are even subjectively not my preferences are usually still valuable in what they mean in my favorite artists’ overall body of work.

The best part is that in the original novel, it was a straight-up robbery. They changed for the movie because of how impractical stealing all that gold would be, and then put in a scene explaining it was a dumb idea.

Yeah to be fair to Goldfinger, his plan was largely sound. He’s only foiled by Bond apparently turning Pussy Galore (was never really sure what the implication was there), which is a bit tough to mitigate for when you’re considering what could go wrong. That film’s probably the strongest example of “why isn’t the bad…

“... whatever Auric Goldfinger was up to when he tried to irradiate Fort Knox.” I believe he was trying to (permanently?) remove all American gold reserves from circulation, thereby increasing the value of his own gold by an order of magnitude. I’ve always wondered whether the economics of such a scheme are sound,…

Mark Millar Licks Goats.

See, this guy gets it.

Hey this was a really well-done article! I’d be great to get more stories like this, although the vetting process would probably become a nightmare.

“Spider-eletist Disses the Common Man’s Interests” - a special editorial by J. Jonah Jameson

“Set in a post-apocalyptic Africa...”

So after colonialism.  

In defense of Catcher in the Rye, it is completely aware how hollow Holden’s campaign against phoniness is.

“Son, it’s me, your father, Pa Salinger. What is wrong?”

“Through the course of my fascinatingly dull life, I’ve always found fiction so much more truthful than reality—and, yes, I’m aware of the irony”

Rebel In The Rye? Coming soon: The Maverick Also Rises.
Followed by The Nonconformist And The Sea
Six Characters In Search Of An Iconoclast
A Revolutionary Of One’s Own
The Dissident Always Rings Twice
And so much more!

Definitely both. In very Hollywood fashion, there was a gold rush of rom-coms modeled on the likes of How to Lose a Guy... and Sweet Home Alabama: star-driven, high-concept, as glossy as possible. And then when a bunch of those movies underperformed (not even a bunch; 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth, The Bounty Hunter...…

I don’t think it argues against your point so much, as qualifies it - but looking at the highest grossing films in China (link), of the 24 American entries on the top 50 list, only four aren’t reboots or sequels: Zootopia, Warcraft, Avatar, and Skiptrace. That doesn’t seem to the case with their home-grown cinema on…