Arthur Miller Dies at 89

Machette · **Arthur Miller Dies at 89 -** 02-11-2005, 02:32 PM

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 · **Re: Arthur Miller Dies at 89 -** 02-11-2005, 03:59 PM

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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]

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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

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Originally Posted by Pyro

He fucked MAriynn Monroe and shit too.

ARTHUR MILLER ROCKS!

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