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Geoffrey Rush versus Daily

artappraiser — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 05:56:39 +0000

In reply to #MeNeither: Geoffrey Rush wins News Corp case

Geoffrey Rush versus Daily Telegraph: what swung the ruling the actor's way https://t.co/uDrvtXnSzn
— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) April 12, 2019

The last section here is the best. The justice knows his semiology:

On the Daily Telegraph front page

“The front page is particularly sensational and unfair. It deployed a head and shoulders photograph of Mr Rush taken for the purposes of promoting King Lear. He is made up as the ‘deranged’ Lear, complete with stark white make-up and a garland of flowers or weeds.

“The photograph is a striking image. It occupies almost the entire front page, along with the very large headline: “KING LEER”. That pun clearly conveyed, and it may be inferred was clearly intended to convey, that Mr Rush had been involved in some sort of sexually inappropriate behaviour. It was, and it may readily be inferred was intended to be, a direct and full-frontal attack on Mr Rush’s reputation. That is so particularly given that this publication occurred in the midst of the emerging #MeToo movement.

“It is difficult to see how the front page image could possibly be considered to be justifiable in light of the relative paucity of the information apparent from the content of the articles.”

There's this obsession with

ocean-kat — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 04:33:46 +0000

In reply to Thry who do these things are

There's this obsession with preserving the past and destroying the past. I don't much see the point in either. Most of the art of the past has been destroyed simply because no one cared enough to preserve it. Sometimes artists painted over one of their paintings just because they thought the canvas was more valuable to reuse than the painting. Most of the classical music composed has disappeared because no one thought it was worth saving. The vast majority of rock and roll will be forgotten because it's trivial crap. If every piece of art created was saved in a thousand years it would have a mass equivalent to the mass of the earth.

Most of the art created today will be thrown out with the garbage because the artist didn't become famous. Some of them are likely better than some saved for no reason but that the artist did become famous. A scribble some famous artist did for practice or "thinking out loud" with a pencil worth more than some work struggled over for months by someone who didn't become famous.

Is this fresco worth saving? Who knows? Let someone make a case why this piece of art out of all the art work created is among those that should be preserved for eternity. Or we could just build a wall in front of it and commission a new fresco. Let people a couple of hundred years from now look behind the wall and decide.

And thrn Thry came for Tintin

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:49:03 +0000

In reply to Thry who do these things are

And thrn Thry came for Tintin...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/herges-racist-adventures...

Thry who do these things are

artappraiser — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 02:59:35 +0000

In reply to Well thry should ban that

Thry who do these things are busy with other stuff

Well thry should ban that

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 02:45:28 +0000

In reply to I can't not say it, can't get

Well thry should ban that movie. Wad there smoking as well?

I can't not say it, can't get

artappraiser — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:09:09 +0000

In reply to #MeNeither: Geoffrey Rush wins News Corp case

I can't not say it, can't get it off my mind: this is a pretty amazing victory for separation of actor as a person vs. his brand in the roles he played. Especially given that he played the Marquis de Sade in the biopic Quills of 2000. I saw it, I admired his performance, but let me just stress one of the main memes was basically: sexual harassment? how silly, that would be like child's play....