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GUY RITCHIE is Humorous, says MARK TWAIN

If I ask you, how would you categorize Guy Ritchie’s films? Are they humorous? Are they comical? Are they witty? They do certainly have that charm of British comedy but it is still difficult for me to categorize Guy Ritchie’s work as any of the three – humor, comical, or witty. But again, what I can’t do, Mark Twain certainly can.

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Unreliable Narrator in Storytelling

As much I hate to categorize auteurs, it ultimately is inevitable. Two basic types for starters: the writer-director or the photographer-director. Auteurs are of both types, after all. To make it simpler – Ingmar Bergman: Writer-Director, Andrei Tarkovsky: Photographer-Director. Fogelman falls in the writer-director category.

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How I Discovered Raymond Carver

I often see Raymond Carver and his works as hidden treasure. Despite being an ardent reader myself, I discovered him in 2012. I was introduced to him by this Indie movie called Everything Must Go. The movie itself is a hidden treasure which not many have seen.

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