Continued HBP director stuff

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http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/#article:8847

My "please, no" feeling hasn't really changed (because the second someone whispers, I'll just groan and never be able to stop), but I do believe him. I watched an interview with him the other night about Lady in the Water and he was talking about his feelings about stories and fairytales and truth, and it made me really, really want to like his movies more because I was very glad for all he was saying.

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I too have an affection, which should perhaps be obvious, for science as a romantic subject, but that is a post for another time.

An opinion can be popularly or widely held, making it seem true. Or, of course, it can be as true as true is for the holder of said opinion (see my "I stand with the Prince" icons -- until JKR tells us otherwise, that's just how it is around here. Chances are, even when she tells us otherwise, that'll still be how it is around here).

Look, I appreciate more than most people the bending of fact. Saying "My mother never loved me" is always more effective than "It seemed my mother never loved me." However, when having a discussion or debate with someone, as opposed to telling your own story, it can seem astoundingly bloody obnoxious.

One of the reasons I've not yet particularly entered into the meat of this discussion is that I spend an inordinate amount of time on movie sets, and seeing how movies are made, and the things that go into what finally winds up on the screen. And despite personal projects I am working on, I am not a moviemaker at this moment in time, being on the other side of the camera, so I don't want to pull out the "I know more about this than you do" card, because I try about what I do, more than most things, not to be an arse. But the fact most certainly is that I do know different about these things than the other parties involved in this discussion.

Of course you don't dimiss armchair scholarship. If you did, you'd hardly be able to participate with a straight face in this discussion.

From the moment this discussion started I was displeased by the tone, but I also loathe the idea of enforced niceness, so I decided to fight or ignore. But when I posted about Shyamalan's remarks about honouring story and fairytale, your response of "don't be swayed" etc., read like a dismissmal of my own critical thinking skills. Notions of truth and story and identity are what I do for a living. Asking me why I chose to believe him (and belief is always a choice) would have been reasonable, since I just posted about it in passing. Your seeming assumption that I don't think about these issues especially where my profession and my heart intersect -- well that's either just nasty or short sighted. I loathe debate through attempted bullying, despite my own skill and enjoyment with the small, sharp and pointy division of English vocabulary and sentence structure.

Ah, the Internet and the mystery of tonal quality.