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fae or HER day IT took my nine-year-old. son to see :
Willow,! the George Lucas blockbuster fantasy adventure, as .
they call it, which in the normal course of events we would
have just thoroughly enjoyed, and left it at that.

AS my son put it: “Wow, Dad,
look at/those special effects!’’ It
used to be that was enough for me.

Willow was a fantastic visual

* display, indeed. Epic. Incredibly

well directed. Brilliantly shot. A

/ magnificent technical achievement,

: filmmaker David Puttnam had»:

I kept thinking about what

Aatked about in a workshupJ'd at

“tended a month before, about .
cinema having been “Disneyfied"™ :

to the point wherc it was failing

utterly in its artistic mission. to tbe |

subversive.” :

The net effect:
of. half acentury..

been to make our
“children stupider ..
‘than ever, I am

s beginning to.

“reluctantly.
onclude. °?”

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Willow, all right. Raw ©
Disney: More intelligent, perhaps.

‘ But a pure cntertainment:.. a

:, That’s‘all right, of course..E
cept that I 1 better app because I~

rose to become head of mighty
Columbia Studios.” /

Among his projects after arriv-
ing at Columbia was the produc-
tion of The Last Emperor, which

swept the Academy Awards this

year, all but washing away Cana-

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Moonstruck. r
Puttnam's main point, during:
our workshop, was that ‘

changes. TV can't do the job
because of commercial pressure
jand censorship. Cinema is:the on:

‘ entertainment medium that can do
‘much, much more.” fog

-business, but I believe it is entirely
correct, When you think about tt
type of maicrial that appears/on
TY, what ist? © 11 / ft.
Answer: Cop shows, cartoons,
Anne of. Green Gables sprawling |
period series. that boy unte death,

shows, levangelis . sport
" patronizing regional stuffija bit of, .
sews now and then, Sekt :

of
the added ingul of the overwiln
ing mass of broadcasting being ..
schlock trom south of the border.”
Ef it cain be said to'have any:

; measur ble effect, (slat effect is.

simply to have lo’ cred academic
and intellectual ards in the |.
_ current younger, yeneration. tothe |
“point where illiteracy’ has again 4
“become widespréad.

. #, The net effect.of half.a century
/of television broadcasting. has been \

-to make our children stupider than”
ever, Lam beginning | to reluctantly.
conclude; Whew mind dust. our.
‘children.
So whe
have, worthwhile mass entertain. :
»ment,— if'we are to learn some- :

‘thing about ourselves and. what, we of

jare doing to the world?.:
, Answer! The movies.’

Yet what do we get? More junk. o

“Every filmt,"’. Puttnam said,
‘has 7 An ‘obligation to be both. es

Thete i is no reason to do it other-

‘cinema, if
_ More than TV, can-stimulate

‘ education without ensurin

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