tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post6664394035846774401..comments2023-08-20T06:16:15.362-05:00Comments on Getafilm: "Location: MN" - This Weekend @ the WalkerDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-5587070505159876582011-07-28T22:36:26.121-05:002011-07-28T22:36:26.121-05:00Thanks, Will, as always, for your thoughtful insig...Thanks, Will, as always, for your thoughtful insights. To be honest I have no good answer to the local-global balance. I think I'm drawn to big cities in general because I feel they (obviously) draw more diversity of thought and perspective, and diversity of everything else. That being said, there are neighborhoods or even whole boroughs of New York City that are more insular than Lake Wobegon. So it's not that size is necessary everything.<br /><br />Your defense of GK is totally sensible, and of course you have a much deeper understanding of him than I could ever pretend to have!<br /><br />I would be interested to hear your thoughts on <i>Fargo</i> in this context, if and when you next see it.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-8710697960042267942011-07-22T10:04:13.239-05:002011-07-22T10:04:13.239-05:00Daniel,
Sorry, not entirely fair of me but I coul...Daniel,<br /><br />Sorry, not entirely fair of me but I couldn't help being curious.<br /><br />As usual your response is both gracious and crystalline. You have a gift for transforming the frequently near-worthless "comments" portion of the web into something interesting and worthwhile. <br /><br />For the extent to which it is a part of my existence, I don't think very much about being Minnesotan. I think that I can visualize your perspective and frustration and I see how that could connect to PHC. <br /><br />I wonder how one can tell the difference between an insular outlook and a value on local community. It isn't hard to understand the difference, anyway, by looking at it in terms of effect. I'd be interested in your perspective on how local and how cosmopolitan or global (different things?) a community perhaps ought to be.<br /><br />I like the way your post has the elements to illustrate some MN self-perceptions via our film-selves and how we "view" them (on a number of levels). <br /><br />Only defense for GK: if you are going to, more or less, satirize the way of life of your parents and their friends, a complex mingle of nostalgia and even appreciation may be admissible and, if you are going to do so every week, advisable. (Aren't many of us on this trajectory with our own parents?) But for someone to have an allergy to that stew no more embarrassing than smelling mothballs where someone else sees only memories. <br /><br />Also, now I think I will have to watch <i>Fargo</i>...will keillorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789481730957091606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-35681510745448634102011-07-21T21:29:40.700-05:002011-07-21T21:29:40.700-05:00Beav, you sap - I shoulda knowns you were partial ...Beav, you sap - I shoulda knowns you were partial to Sweetland!<br /><br />Will...how embarrassing. My allergy to him is not explained in a previous post (that I can remember), and in fact I'm not sure it's necessarily an allergy to him personally, but to A Prairie Home Companion. Satirical as it is, I have the sense that the joke is lost on the audience (even if they're laughing); it's as if they admire it, and not in a self-effacing way, because it celebrates a simpler, more traditional, insular Minnesota. In other words, all the things that frustrate me about the local culture - and all the things that the Coens gloriously harpoon in <i>Fargo</i>.<br /><br />I realize this makes me seem rigid or hard-headed or "above it all", and may say more about relationship to Minnesota than the show or Keillor.<br /><br />My wife is not Minnesotan (nor am I, though I've lived here half my life), but her father-in-law has listened to the show for years and she took him to see it live at the Fitz last fall. I declined to go along but realized, maybe for the first time, that were I not a "local" I would probably find it an interesting cultural phenomenon.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-34455317553591021712011-07-20T23:51:17.179-05:002011-07-20T23:51:17.179-05:00May I inquire about your allergy to Garrison Keill...May I inquire about your allergy to Garrison Keillor, just out of simple curiosity? If that's explained in a previous post, my apologies.will keillorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789481730957091606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-30931385437199666482011-07-18T01:38:56.528-05:002011-07-18T01:38:56.528-05:00I was gonna say you forgot to mention Sweetland bu...I was gonna say you forgot to mention Sweetland but it looks like the Walker knows what their doing.... Great post! Get out here dummy!!!<br /><br />BeavAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-67286553934903869522011-07-13T11:32:44.450-05:002011-07-13T11:32:44.450-05:00Ah, I stand corrected. Categorize that one instead...Ah, I stand corrected. Categorize that one instead as a "set in Minnesota but filmed elsewhere" movie. Incidentally I never saw it and don't plan to, but if anyone has and can stand up for it as a worthy Minnesota-themed movie, I'm all ears.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222052132452709301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3435253058176416288.post-35807951226547722232011-07-13T10:32:21.881-05:002011-07-13T10:32:21.881-05:00New in Town was filmed in Iowa.New in Town was filmed in Iowa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com