Kushner is also a high profile gay activist.
Kushner is ALSO the most overrated playwright of all time.
I found Angels in America full of the most predictable cheap shots and conceits (the Salt Lake City Mormon married man turns out to be a closet gay.etc. etc. )
His writing is always smudged with the pawprints of amateurism and political wishful thinking.
And Spielberg, as talented as he is, cannot ever rid himself of some kind of artistic schizophrenia. For all its believable brutality, Schindler's List winds up going for capital S Sentiment, with Schindler crying that he "could have saved more",etc. etc. Everything that is good in his movies keeps getting undermined by this sentimentality, which has always been a large component of his signature style. Yesterday , the NY Daily News had a brief article quoting several real life Israeli Mossad agents and their reaction to MUNICH. Basically, they felt it had NOTHING to do with reality, and that Mossad agents like those portrayed in the film were so amateurish they would have gotten caught immediately. Obviously the film has an agenda and a message of its own, and that is what always strangles truth and artistic integrity in the womb.
Kushner is ALSO the most overrated playwright of all time.
I found Angels in America full of the most predictable cheap shots and conceits (the Salt Lake City Mormon married man turns out to be a closet gay.etc. etc. )
His writing is always smudged with the pawprints of amateurism and political wishful thinking.
And Spielberg, as talented as he is, cannot ever rid himself of some kind of artistic schizophrenia. For all its believable brutality, Schindler's List winds up going for capital S Sentiment, with Schindler crying that he "could have saved more",etc. etc. Everything that is good in his movies keeps getting undermined by this sentimentality, which has always been a large component of his signature style. Yesterday , the NY Daily News had a brief article quoting several real life Israeli Mossad agents and their reaction to MUNICH. Basically, they felt it had NOTHING to do with reality, and that Mossad agents like those portrayed in the film were so amateurish they would have gotten caught immediately. Obviously the film has an agenda and a message of its own, and that is what always strangles truth and artistic integrity in the womb.