No, apart from the slighted insult I didn’t understand any of what you wrote there either.
Those videos won’t help me somehow now enjoy the Prequels either.
Why would anyone want to watch YouTube videos, linked from someone who continually insults those don’t like the Prequel films, to somehow now be able to now enjoy the Prequels years after they were released?
Let’s say you don’t like Doritos. And there are plenty of others chips out there to enjoy. Do you think watching YouTube videos about Doritos will somehow make yourself now enjoy them? Will reading and listening to what the creator of Doritos says about Doritos what his “intentions and how successfully they achieved what they set out to do” make me now like the Doritos chips?
Let’s say you don’t like a film you saw 20 years ago. You didn’t like it and have no intention of watching it again, life is short and there are far more films to watch. Do you think watching YouTube videos about the film you didn’t like 20 years ago will somehow make yourself now enjoy it? (or watching YouTube videos on “Video Literacy” will change your opinion of not liking the film?) Will reading and listening to what the creator of of the film says about it and what his “intentions and how successfully they achieved what they set out to do” make me now enjoy the films?
Of course not.
Instead you could have asked what aspects of the films people here did enjoy, or thought were positive. Talk about that, but it now is a little late after you’ve insulted, lectured and patronized them.
As posted previously, there seems little point in continuing this discussion with you, if nothing else but to not further derail this thread. I apologize to everyone if I have derailed the thread or if anyone does not agree with my posts, and I’ll refrain from further posting in here.
My intentions weren’t to offend you but I do sincerely apologise to you for making you feel that way. I truly didn’t mean it as a personal insult to you personally or anyone else for that matter but merely an observation experience I’ve encountered through personal experiences with art and the way of seeing it that most tend to have in particular against the Prequels and George Lucas. It’s not a slight against you personally as a person as I know art is subjective and we all have our own personal view of seeing things.
Absolutely. Not everyone likes Doritos and that’s okay. We can’t all like the same food.
It’s not my intention to make you suddenly love them like I do but merely to give you the tools to understand them through the intentions of the collective whole as George intended and what it means to be visually literate. This is a different thing to that of personal preferences. It’s an important tool I find in understanding the world around us. It isn’t taught in our culture unfortunately. I may have gone too far in how I expressed this desire to teach it but it wasn’t to belittle you.
Life would be a pretty dull thing if we all liked the same things but making it personal or generalising people is never healthy. No matter who you are as we all have a reason for liking or disliking the things we do. I certainly respect and understand that but I conveyed it in a way that didn’t come across as well as I had in my head. For that and how it came across I do apologise.