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I'm not a fan of The Sound of Music... the songs grate on my nerves and I find the narrative a bore, and although the cinematography is beautiful, (admittedly), I just don't find it to be my cup of tea... However, all that said, I do love musicals, (as other men on this forum have pointed out), and just as many women don't like them, (as other women on this forum pointed out). Seems kind of a no brainer right? Movies don't really have "gender preference" they're liked by different people with different strokes? I love Rom-Coms. So did my Dad. I even like chick flicks, (so did my Dad). But my Step-Dad can't stand them, he's into action and westerns, (mostly for scenery because he enjoys the outdoors). But my Mom deplores chick flicks, she'll go for musicals or silents or classics... on and on... etc. etc. Point is, different people are different. Holden Pike loves Westerns, I do enjoy them but probably not to his level. I enjoy experimental, avant-garde, and underground stuff. But I know even a lot of people on here wouldn't like, much less know about, that kind of stuff. Different stokes people. Different folks. It ain't gender.
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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage