What the Manolo Is…
Manolo says, here is What the Manolo Is…
Manolo says, the Manolo he continues to read the books about the movies and the screenwriting. And the Netflix, it continues to deliver the movies to the home of the Manolo.
By the way, if you wish to read the short media reviews of the Manolo you should go to this place.
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Elizabeth 19 years ago
Manolo, two very interesting movie choices. Fight Club is one of the greatest satires of the beleaguered white male in the late twentieth century, and feaures one of our generation’s best actors, Edward Norton. The movie is a pop culture standard. Ninth Gate, however… nice try, Polanski, but despite the acting chops of another of our acting genuses (Johnny Depp, of course, that dreadful pirate movie notwithstanding), the plot fails to gel, and the movie never really gets anywhere.
The Baron 19 years ago
Maestro Manolo, we are very confused. Fight Club is a great film, it’s in my top five. But Maestro, doesn’t the theme of the film run contradictory to the values you espouse here? Fight Club is a film about the abandonment of material cultures, of being the core of what you are without overmuch commercialization. Many commercial brands are denigrated. But you yourself, Maestro, have become famous for your espousal or mockery of one particular brand over another, for being a self-admitted (and extremely adroit) fashionista.
Please understand, Maestro, I have a great amount of respect for your taste and choices. You yourself have affected some of my style choices and views on what a gentleman should wear. I do wish you nothing but utmost success, and perhaps one day that script with Mr. Day-Lewis or Monsieur Depp as a star in it (which I will PROMPTLY go see!). But your choice of films confuses me! What are we to think!
All the best. Con mucho gusto por usted, Maestro.
Manolo the Shoeblogger 19 years ago
Hello to the Baron!
You perhaps misapprehend what the Manolo does in his “What the Manolo Is… ” postings.
It is merely the listing of the media that the Manolo he is consuming this week. It is usually not the endorsement of the worth or unworth of the item being consumed.
For the specific example, with the Fight Club, the Manolo he truly enjoyed the visuals, the acting, and the manly violence, but overall he found the movie more than somewhat ridiculous in its premise, and more than somewhat juvenile in its view of the world.
As for the culture of the consumer, which is proudly celebrated here in the blogs of the Manolo, the Manolo he is under no of the illusions that “things” are the substitute for the life of the soul or the mind.
Instead the things they are celebrated as things, as objects of beauty or unbeauty to be admired, or denigrated as the case she may be. This it applies to shoes and clothes also.
It is also the belief of the Manolo that the admiration of beauty, even of the beauty of the objects that can be purchased at the outlet store of the factory, it is not imcompatible with having the rich inner life.
Indeed, until recently, it was the commonly held belief that owning the things of beauty could aid in achieving inner beauty. (Do we not take our children to the museums of art? What is the purpose of that if not to inculcate into them some idea of the power of beauty.)
This discussion, it is worthy of the front page of the blog. So we shall continue it there.
Sela 19 years ago
Dearest Manolo,
If you wish to read an excellent book on the writing of the prose, you could do no better than to read the superfantastic Stephen King’s book ON WRITING. Equal parts memoir and instruction, it is a mesmerizing read worthy of the Manolo’s time.