For what it was worth, quite an experience it must have been!
Kudos to you for undertaking this ambitious project.
The way it's been filmed, your documentary has a very good/ original/ easy-going/ effortlessly-entertaining feel to it which makes the viewer almost seem like s/he was part of it.
For what it was worth, quite an experience it must have been!
Kudos to you for undertaking this ambitious project.
The way it's been filmed, your documentary has a very good/ original/ easy-going/ effortlessly-entertaining feel to it which makes the viewer almost seem like s/he was part of it.
I find the teacher's mention of the Field of Dreams film odd. I'd expect an English teacher to know it's based on Shoeless Joe, the novel. And that "famous writer" in the novel actually is a fictionalized Salinger. I guess in this day and age even English teachers prefer the movie, haha.
Also, wasn't the hooker, the one this guy refers to as older than Holden's mother, really a teen not much older than Holden himself?
Oh, and the two guys who made the film: total douche-bags. That is all.
Why would you want to see him ? You'd want to see him for the same reason you read a great book. He's a man that knows the truth and we live in a world of lies. He's a great teacher. Maybe you'd find out something really important by speaking to him. I wouldn't bother him anyway since he wanted to be left alone. These guys look like the last people on earth that are searching for the truth though.
@thot4 - Most people would agree that murdering good people is bad. Are you claiming thats not a truth
Most people would agree that child rape is bad. I agree that some truth is relative but some is also anbsolute when it comes to dealing with humans living in the real world.
Values cannot exist without truth and humans have always had values. They aren't always correct values but they aren't always incorrect either.
@thot4 Um...tom just gave you some examples of truth. Okay, examples aren't the same thing as definition, but your answer is evasive and dismissive. And you sound like you're reading a fortune cookie. Stop pretending you have it all figured out and watch the play. "The fact of the matter..." ugh. It's like some tweed-jacketed pipe smoking grotesque.
@thot4 You start a discussion on a YT thread by quoting some obscure line from the Bible, one you clearly don't even understand, pass it off as your own, and I'm the fool? I've no doubt your first comment "there is no truth" is in the Bible. Your second comment, the explanation: doubtful. You have no idea what the line means. The Bible, both old and new testaments, list certain things as very clearly right or wrong. And who cares what the Bible says anyway? Have an original idea for once.
I mean, I agree with you all. They should've probably respected his privacy. But he was just so enigmatic... I think given the chance, I would've done this too.
I don't think I would've actually gone to his home, though. All he wanted was to be left alone. I would've respected at least that.
These guys are clearly small-time assholes. The implication that somehow the nature of their quest excuses the ultimate intrusion into JDS's life is basically pathetic, like they're any different from scores of assholes ringing his bell, thinking: He'll talk to ME, I'm different from those other a-holes, he'll see!
Mr. Salinger was reclusive, and wanted to remain as such. I don't understand why people feel the need to pry in on his private life. Sure, many would like to read new stories and see interviews with him, but if he chose to live this way, why are they even attempting this? It was interesting to see the inspirations for "The Catcher in the Rye" and where he went to school, etc., but the man was happy away from the limelight.....Oh, well, R.I.P. J.D. Salinger....You will be missed.
I understand reclusiveness and the need to privacy, but honestly, Salinger wrote a novel that spoke out to the alienated, but unfortunately, in the end, it's just a novel. The alienated masses needed the author behind that wonderful work to reaffirm their connection to the novel and being different.
Because most of Salinger's fans don't share Salinger's worldview. Most of Salinger's fans want closure to the elusiveness. Contrary to J.D.'s wishful thinking, we're not all Holden Caulfields who just want to be left alone. We actually want to search for meaning.
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For what it was worth, quite an experience it must have been!
Kudos to you for undertaking this ambitious project.
The way it's been filmed, your documentary has a very good/ original/ easy-going/ effortlessly-entertaining feel to it which makes the viewer almost seem like s/he was part of it.
curioustechnology 7 months ago
For what it was worth, quite an experience it must have been!
Kudos to you for undertaking this ambitious project.
The way it's been filmed, your documentary has a very good/ original/ easy-going/ effortlessly-entertaining feel to it which makes the viewer almost seem like s/he was part of it.
curioustechnology 7 months ago
I find the teacher's mention of the Field of Dreams film odd. I'd expect an English teacher to know it's based on Shoeless Joe, the novel. And that "famous writer" in the novel actually is a fictionalized Salinger. I guess in this day and age even English teachers prefer the movie, haha.
Also, wasn't the hooker, the one this guy refers to as older than Holden's mother, really a teen not much older than Holden himself?
Oh, and the two guys who made the film: total douche-bags. That is all.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 9 months ago
Why would you want to see him ? You'd want to see him for the same reason you read a great book. He's a man that knows the truth and we live in a world of lies. He's a great teacher. Maybe you'd find out something really important by speaking to him. I wouldn't bother him anyway since he wanted to be left alone. These guys look like the last people on earth that are searching for the truth though.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612
There is no truth. There are no reasons.
thot4 1 year ago
@thot4 - Most people would agree that murdering good people is bad. Are you claiming thats not a truth
Most people would agree that child rape is bad. I agree that some truth is relative but some is also anbsolute when it comes to dealing with humans living in the real world.
Values cannot exist without truth and humans have always had values. They aren't always correct values but they aren't always incorrect either.
tom6612 1 year ago
@tom6612
Define "truth."
There is not truth, or untruth. The moment simply is.
The fact of the matter is that the world is a string of beautifully random events slammed together arbitrarily.
thot4 1 year ago
@thot4 Um...tom just gave you some examples of truth. Okay, examples aren't the same thing as definition, but your answer is evasive and dismissive. And you sound like you're reading a fortune cookie. Stop pretending you have it all figured out and watch the play. "The fact of the matter..." ugh. It's like some tweed-jacketed pipe smoking grotesque.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 9 months ago
@MckyMseNTarotCrds
I was quoting the bible, fool.
thot4 9 months ago
@thot4 You start a discussion on a YT thread by quoting some obscure line from the Bible, one you clearly don't even understand, pass it off as your own, and I'm the fool? I've no doubt your first comment "there is no truth" is in the Bible. Your second comment, the explanation: doubtful. You have no idea what the line means. The Bible, both old and new testaments, list certain things as very clearly right or wrong. And who cares what the Bible says anyway? Have an original idea for once.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 8 months ago
@MckyMseNTarotCrds
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
thot4 8 months ago
@thot4 Well, you got me there. See, that's what you should've started w/. Bring out the big guns right away, I always say.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 8 months ago
I think that this is kind of cool.
I mean, I agree with you all. They should've probably respected his privacy. But he was just so enigmatic... I think given the chance, I would've done this too.
I don't think I would've actually gone to his home, though. All he wanted was to be left alone. I would've respected at least that.
thot4 1 year ago
Agreed! to all of the following-
MorrisseyFanNo1, Curtis006, & skipmojo
Just sorry I watched it...but, you know what
they say about car crashes.
Joypop80 2 years ago
These guys are clearly small-time assholes. The implication that somehow the nature of their quest excuses the ultimate intrusion into JDS's life is basically pathetic, like they're any different from scores of assholes ringing his bell, thinking: He'll talk to ME, I'm different from those other a-holes, he'll see!
No pictures. No audio. LAME. Small "a" assholes.
skipmojo 2 years ago
Mr. Salinger was reclusive, and wanted to remain as such. I don't understand why people feel the need to pry in on his private life. Sure, many would like to read new stories and see interviews with him, but if he chose to live this way, why are they even attempting this? It was interesting to see the inspirations for "The Catcher in the Rye" and where he went to school, etc., but the man was happy away from the limelight.....Oh, well, R.I.P. J.D. Salinger....You will be missed.
MorrisseyFanNo1 2 years ago
I understand reclusiveness and the need to privacy, but honestly, Salinger wrote a novel that spoke out to the alienated, but unfortunately, in the end, it's just a novel. The alienated masses needed the author behind that wonderful work to reaffirm their connection to the novel and being different.
PhantomPatriotZero 1 year ago
This falls into the category of: obessive fan
cromwellian13 2 years ago 5
I blame you fuckers for his death.
Curtis006 2 years ago
So why did these people want to go bother a man who obviously did not want to be bothered?
ogloosh 2 years ago 11
@ogloosh The more you don't want to be bothered the more they will
Tihvit 1 year ago
Because most of Salinger's fans don't share Salinger's worldview. Most of Salinger's fans want closure to the elusiveness. Contrary to J.D.'s wishful thinking, we're not all Holden Caulfields who just want to be left alone. We actually want to search for meaning.
PhantomPatriotZero 1 year ago
I heard from my brother at Dartmouth College that students saw Salinger at the library there
backoswacko10 2 years ago
Very misleading ... there is a well known documentary called 'Catching Salinger' and this youtube nonsense is NOT that documentary.
BeckhamBoston 2 years ago 2
urgh duped not reading properly .... ok I'll Amazon that documentary
tzeqin 2 years ago
judy bloome lol
Valkyrie20010 2 years ago
Leave J.D. Salinger alone.
burritoskinzmurphy2 2 years ago 2