As spectacle, The Greatest Showman is excellent, despite being a picturesque allegory (so to speak) of Hollywood’s most cherished dogma—the fantasy that the human will is sovereign. The sweep and color, the interplay of symmetry and asymmetry, the music and song, the symphony of movement and sentiment—well, it’s enough to take one’s breath away, and… Continue reading The Greatest Hoodwink
Category: TV & Movies
To: Mitchell Burgess (Writer & Producer)
Almost to the day, I wrote the following letter three years ago, out of sheer pleasure. It’s not a normal activity of mine to write letters to producers or writers or directors of television shows or movies; in fact, I recall writing only one other, to J J Abrams for making Super 8. That movie… Continue reading To: Mitchell Burgess (Writer & Producer)