Re: Class and Kink
On Jan 9, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Not to mention cool, imperious authority and disdain.
[WS:] Cool or dull? The impressions I get from films like Renoir’s
“Rules of the Game” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lar%C3%A8gledujeu or Altman’s “Gosford Park” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GosfordPark is that of monumental dullness, pretentiousness and idiocy. The
servants make much more colorful and interesting characters.
Don’t be so literal-minded, Woj. It’s fantasy.
For a sample of the idiocy of the rich, check out Charlotte Curtis’
The Rich and Other Atrocities, from the late 1970s. She used to be
the society editor of the NYT, and the book seems to be a collection
of her dispatches over the years. She has a light touch and lets
people hang themselves - e.g the wives of men who’ve made it big in
industrial detergents dilating about their yacht.
Doug