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Word: corneilleian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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Social Document. Writes Critic Bazin: "The Corneilleian simplicity of the western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Le Western | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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