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Article: The passion of global Hollywood: ivansxtc.
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- CineAction
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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It occurred to him that what had previously seemed to him a downright
impossibility, that he had lived his whole life not as he should,
could actually be true. It occurred to him that his barely recognized
promptings to fight against what people in the highest positions
deemed good, faintly perceptible impulses which he had promptly
shrugged off--it could be these that were the reality, and all the
rest was not the right thing.
--Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Contemporary Hollywood is marked by contradictions. An endlessly maligned and ridiculed institutional "place" from which emanates a global corporate entertainment culture widely ...