BRUTALITY ON THE SCREEN.
Sir,-In reply to Dennis Hartley’s letter, on whose authority are the films he lists regarded as landmarks in the industry? As to his remarks that A Yank at Eton was bad in every way, I should like to point out to him that the film was meant to be a farce, and if it was taken as such it was one of the best we have seen. To his insulting remarks that the public of New Zealand (he can mean no other), are no judge of anything artistic, I can only say he is not very observant, or he would know that men of standing who have visited New Zealand in recent years have remarked on the intelligence, knowledge of politics, and of world affairs shown by the New Zealand public. Yet Dennis Hartley says they are no judge of anything artistic. To "Soldier’s Wife’ I feel no resentment for her letter, as I know how my mother (a widow) must have felt when she stood on the wharf and watched the ship bearing the youngest of the family heading for the open sea. But I should like to draw her attention to recent speeches by Churchill and Roosevelt, both Christian men, in which they say that the Axis Gangsters must be completely exterminated. To the sarcastic Lloyd Brown I should like to point out that he is clouding the issue when he suggests that I like to see brutality on the screen. How he or any other person can construe that from my
letter is beyond me. What I did say was that I like to see scenes of Germans being exterminated (to use Churchill’s word). Pictures are for entertainment purposes, and if Lloyd Brown expects people to sit through them like wooden dummies he had better stay home, as he is asking the impossible. Before I close I should like to draw your readers’ attention to a speech by Roosevelt in which he says: "We spend our energies and resources and the very lives of our sons and daughters because a band of gangsters in the community of nations declines to recognise the fundamentals of decent human conduct."
GEORGE
BELL
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 221, 17 September 1943, Page 5
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367BRUTALITY ON THE SCREEN. New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 221, 17 September 1943, Page 5
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