Clarissa, on The African Queen:
I’ve been thinking about why I like these old movies so much and now I realize it’s because they aren’t hectoring me. Today’s movies remind me of what Hepburn’s character is at the beginning of the film: preachy, humorless, ridiculous, and barren. Even Frozen 2, whose biggest audience is aged 3, reads like a syllabus in a course titled “The Evils of Whiteness and Colonialism” at some rich-kid college.
Bonus quote:
Oh, I hate “high-brow” movies. The pretentiousness makes me vomit. A movie should do nothing but entertain.