moviscop wrote:Murdoch wrote:Mr_sausage wrote:The criticism was misogyny, not racism
He's criticized Lynch for both, I believe it was for
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me that he said having a black serial killer in the film was racist, or something along those lines.
You are incorrect Sausage.
And at the beginning
of Wild at Heart, there is a scene between Sailor and a black assassin that Ebert commented on and made a big deal about. The scene can be found
here
Full review
here
Ebert
Some people laugh when they see this scene. They like the way the look is overplayed: Cage looks like a villain in a silent movie. I didn't laugh. I saw the payoff as Lynch's attempt to defuse the violence - to excuse a racially charged scene of unapologetic malevolence
You know even a cursory bit
of reading shows Ebert did not accuse Lynch
of racism. His problem is with the "unapologetic malevolence," and how in his opinion Lynch attempts to excuse it and joke his way out
of it. The epithet "racially-charged" is not in itself negative, nor a criticism, but a further description
of the moment that helps highlight his problem with Lynch's attempt at diffusion.
On the other hand, the charge, or near charge,
of misogyny, echoes in a number
of Ebert's Lynch reviews.
As a side note, anyone else tried going back through moviscop's posts and replacing Lynch's name with Ebert's? It's fun:
"he held his bitterness for a long time and let it get in the way
of his examination
of Ebert's work."
"He continued to write reviews on Ebert's work that continued to mirror his bitterness toward the man"
Reads like a self-confession written in the third person.
