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Machette 02-11-2005 02:32 PM

Arthur Miller Dies at 89
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4258065.stm

I loved Death of Salesman cool:

RIP

ninty 02-11-2005 02:34 PM

Yeah same.

RIP

Whatada 02-11-2005 02:41 PM

Heard about it on the radio this morning.. Crying shame.


hake:

Short Hand 02-11-2005 02:49 PM

Loved reading that play in class. shitty to hear this.

Judas 02-11-2005 03:11 PM

offtopic: imwithstupid: plzdie: ban:

Colonel 02-11-2005 03:59 PM

Re: Arthur Miller Dies at 89
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Machette
I loved Death of Salesman

I loved Marilyn Monroe. To me, marrying her was a far greater life achievement than any book he wrote. beer:

Jin-Roh 02-11-2005 04:01 PM

The Crucible is what makes me hate Puritans and hardcore-christians. oOo:

Colonel 02-11-2005 04:27 PM

[quote="Jin-Roh":5071f]The Crucible is what makes me hate Puritans and hardcore-christians. oOo:[/quote:5071f]

Do you usually let a work of fiction decide how you feel about a group? Interesting. BTW - The play was intended to be an attack on McCarthyism, not Christianity.

Akuma 02-11-2005 04:28 PM

[quote="Jin-Roh":7d7a1]The Crucible is what makes me hate Puritans and hardcore-christians. oOo:[/quote:7d7a1]
Same. Even though it's more about evil conservatives and the red scare. Still an excellent play.

Death of a Salesman was pretty good too.





RIP

Airborne Butters 02-11-2005 05:19 PM

I remember watching Crucible in school and seeing boobs in it. IT was the newer one with Winonya Ryder.

[DAS REICH] Blitz 02-11-2005 05:35 PM

RIP annoy:

Jin-Roh 02-11-2005 05:59 PM

[quote=Colonel]
Quote:

Originally Posted by "Jin-Roh":9cc49
The Crucible is what makes me hate Puritans and hardcore-christians. oOo:

Do you usually let a work of fiction decide how you feel about a group? Interesting. BTW - The play was intended to be an attack on McCarthyism, not Christianity.[/quote:9cc49]

It's closesly based on an actual event, isn't it?

Pyro 02-11-2005 06:15 PM

He fucked MAriynn Monroe and shit too.

ARTHUR MILLER ROCKS!

Colonel 02-11-2005 06:34 PM

[quote="Jin-Roh":30d38]It's closesly based on an actual event, isn't it?[/quote:30d38]

I would say "loosely" not closely. Here is an explanation that I found...

"Although the events of the play are based on the events that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, Miller was liberal in his fictionalization of those events. For example, many of the accusations of witchcraft in the play are driven by the affair between farmer, husband, and father John Proctor (Arthur Kennedy), and the Minister's teenage niece Abigail Williams (Madeleine Sherwood); however, in real life Williams was probably about eleven at the time of the accusations and Proctor was over sixty, which makes it most unlikely that there was ever any such relationship. Miller himself said, "The play is not reportage of any kind .... [n]obody can start to write a tragedy and hope to make it reportage .... what I was doing was writing a fictional story about an important theme."
The "important theme" that Miller was writing about was clear to many observers in 1953 at the play's opening. It was written in response to Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee's crusade against supposed communist sympathizers. Despite the obvious political criticisms contained within the play, most critics felt that "The Crucible" was "a self contained play about a terrible period in American history."

[DAS REICH] Blitz 02-11-2005 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyro
He fucked MAriynn Monroe and shit too.

ARTHUR MILLER ROCKS!

he fucked shit, that musta been quite the predicament oOo:


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