From: Erin Noonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 15:52:32 BST
Sam,
You are objecting to the sweeping argument that Pirsig makes but this
statement was set in a context of the conditions of selling the rights to his
book to hollywood. I don't think it is fair to take it out of context as a
blanket statement of films.
A play and a film is based on a writer's work. The playwright is given rights
to any group creation of his works. In film he had been warned that previous
writers saw their work trashed in film because they had 'sold their work'.
It seems that a play and a film is a group creation but only with a play was
the artist (individual) dominating. So it is fair to say if he wasn't given
rights that filmmaking was devouring his individudal intellectual work.
erin
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