Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Overheard at Table 3: The BFG



Billy: I loved it.


Joe: Isn't the guy who wrote that book now a Jew-hater?


Jim: Whaddaya mean by "now?"


Bob: Yeah, guy's been dead for decades.


Billy: Just read about it.


Joe: So, if he's anti-Semite, don't we gotta hate everything he's ever written?


Jim: And burn copies?


Bob: Yeah.  Been years since we've been to a good book-burning.


Billy: Can't we like the stuff but not have to like the guy?


Joe: I don't think it works that way.


Jim: Culturally speaking.


Bob: You can always enjoy the stuff in secret.


Billy:  I'm just saying, if the books are good and the movies are good, does it matter if the writer's a


Jew-Hater or a racist or whatever?


Joe: Oscar Wilde said "There are no moral or immoral books.  They are only well-written or poorly written.  Nothing else." 


Jim:  ... or something to that effect.


Bob: So I guess you can.


Billy: Just don't let anybody find out.


Joe: Good.  Because I thought The BFG was awesome.


Jim: What does BFG stand for anyway?


Bob: Big Friendly Giant.


Billy:  Good, because I was thinking something totally different.


Joe: I think everyone was.


Jim: Great movie anyway.


Bob: One of the few that the CG really MAKES the movie instead of just making the whole thing


look silly.


Billy: Like a cheap cartoon.


Joe: Exactly.


Jim: How close is the movie to the book?


Bob: Don't know.


Billy: Haven't read it.


Joe: I think we burned it.


Jim: Ha ha.  You're such a kidder.


Bob:... but, IS he kidding?  hmmmm.....





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