From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, August 6, 2012 at 11:45:12 PM UTC-7, davidc...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:13:21 -0400, Bill Anderson   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Technically it's pretty much the equal of Kane, but I've never cared   
   > >much for Ambersons. More specifically, I don't care for the some of the   
   > >people in Ambersons. The young man who takes his mother to Europe and   
   > >ruins her chances for happiness along with several others' including his   
   > >own is just unbelievably, unforgivably stupid.   
   > I have a theory that it's a powerful, melodramatic illustration of   
   > themes from Thorstein Veblen's THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS.   
   >   
   > A few of my feminist friends from grad school also saw it as a   
   > critique of the patriarchy: George delimits his mother's value by   
   > preventing her (in essence) from pro-creating, just as his father and   
   > uncle delimited his aunt Fanny's value.   
   >   
   > AMBERSONS is the supreme filmic treatment of turn-of-the-century   
   > industrialization in America, and succeeds in glamorizing automobiles   
   > and machinery as much as it glamorizes an earlier age. I'd love to see   
   > the 1925 movie adapation of the novel (PAMPERED YOUTH).   
      
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   Pampered Youth (1925)   
      
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