Re: intelligence of the author vs. intelligence of the characters

Funny, I just watched The Royal Tennenbaums last night :).

I think the fact that the children were "geniuses" was less important to
the film makers than the fact that they were emotionally deranged. The
point of them being so gifted when such small children was to show how even
the best of us would get screwed up in a home environment like that....

I always enjoy Angelica Huston in everything I see, but Royal absolutely
stole the show :)

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> '...Cecilia (the Wordsworth-hater) ...'
>
> ... who, I don't doubt, in her search for the divinity
> of the child would gladly shred Intimations in exchange
> for just one more page of the holy Hapworth ...
>
> ... who, in turn, illustrates the total folly of making
> 'genius' - adult or infantile - the central figure of one's
> creative efforts. Geniuses, being by definition so far
> outside the normal human range, do not speak to our
> condition. (Except for the actual thing which virtually
> never concerns itself with fictional versions of itself.)
> One does not write a story about a unicorn when
> reflecting on the life of the pony, the dray mare
> or the stallion.
>
> This is fresh in my mind having watched a video of
> the Royal Tennenbaums the other night. The Glass
> echoes are obvious, of course, but the three gifted
> children are as unengaging as their chancer father
> is mildly amusing. In the same way that the gosh-
> whizzo-zowie Wise Children are essentially creatures
> from a Raree Show - rendered even more tiresome
> by that dreadful, self-regarding prose style.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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