E. Christian Kopff
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- 1945-11-22
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But for those who still want to know about this book, The Devil Knows Latin is a collection of what is essentially conservative literary and film criticism with a focus on the influence and importance of the classical tradition. Some of it is very good (the essay on The Godfather and The Lion King as well as the one on Clint Eastwood especially), some of it makes for miserable reading (like the giant one on why postmodernism is bad), and a lot of it is just average. The first section does cover the importance of learning classical languages (and an appendix covers suggested resources to doing so), but the arguments are weaker than Simmons, which really is the book to get for that.
There's also the fact that Kopff really could have used an editor, as I found at least two obvious factual errors without even trying: 1. He claimed that Tecumseh's brother invented the ghost dance and it was responsible for his defeat at Tippecanoe (he didn't and it didn't) and 2. Scar's henchmen were jackals (they were hyenas) 2. Scar's henchmen were jackals (they were hyenas). There's no telling what else I missed, but an editor definitely should have caught those.
But especially if you're interested in classical tradition and its influence on film, there is actually a lot of interesting material here. Just don't judge the book on its title. Recommended with caveats.… (lisätietoja)