It sure as hell does.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:20, topic:2760”]We’re inevitably talking about opinions here, there are no absolutes in art. The point is that you still seem to think otherwise when you say you know better.
How would you know? I’d like to hear some good arguments. You keep saying things like ‘Peckinpah is the West’. That’s still the authenticity argument, and like I said in my first post: I thought we were passed this.[/quote]
I know otherwise, and I know better.
I suggest you go back and re-read my post in its entirety instead of taking one sentence out of context.
Of course there are absolutes in art, if you are the artist.
An artist is what he is; but few western directors in the USA considered themselves artists.
As for “the authenticity argument,” obviously, you are the one who is not "past it."
Sounds like you are using “the authenticity argument” to cut Peckinpah out, to belittle him, to render a value judgment that his westerns are not as good or not as legitimate as spaghetti westerns. It that’s what you are doing, it’s rubbish.
Richard