Rudder Gustlock

Former professional student. Perpetual amateur logician, classical music lover. Film/science essays here:

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JANE EYRE is an additional literary ancestor.

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Sunday Movie Classics: M. Night Shyamalan & Paul Thomas Anderson cite Hitchcock's 1940 REBECCA about a marriage haunted by the ghost of a first wife as huge influences on SIXTH SENSE & PHANTOM THREAD. Check out the performances, shot selection, use of sound, in this scene.

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It is once again THAT day of THAT month. #portraitofaladyonfire

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Sending best Joycean wishes on this eve of #Bloomsday
"Introibo ad altare Dei"
James Joyce | Ulysses, 1967 | STEFAN CLASSIC FILMS™ https://t.co/OwUyEsHyo5 via @YouTube

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The walking bird seen earlier is already enough to help bring to mind Stephen Dedalus and the "bird girl" at the beach in James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." This provides such grounds for optimism that I am routinely brought to tears.

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The final shot of BARTON FINK (1991) already felt surreal. Then a seabird unexpectedly flew into frame and landed in the shot. It wasn’t planned, but the Coens kept it, turning the film’s last image into something even stranger than they could have staged

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Wake me when these people discover literary present tense.

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For those who think Nolan strays too far from Homer:
Ὁμήρου Ὀδύσσεια (Ραψῳδία 01) - The Odyssey by Homer | Ancient Greek audi... https://t.co/1FJSwkc6Ck via @YouTube

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This echoes the beach scene with Stephen Dedalus and the Bird Girl in Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." I just hope things work out as well for Barton as they do for Stephen.

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The Coen Brother had many influences for making "Barton Fink" (1991). Three of the major influences were "Repulsion" (1965) "Cul-de-sac" (1966) and "The Tenant" (1976), all directed by Roman Polanski.

Ethan Coen said, "If you had to describe "Barton Fink" (1991) generically, you couldn’t do better—not that this is a genre— but it’s kind of a Polanski movie. It’s closer to that than anything else.”

Ironically, it was Roman Polanski who was the head of the Jury in the Cannes Film Festival when the movie premiered. The movie won the Palme D'or, Best Director, and Best Actor at the festival, thereby becoming the first movie to win three major awards at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Coens were hesitant to speak to him about his influence at Cannes.

Joel Coen explained, "Obviously, we have been influenced by Polanski's films, but at this time we were very hesitant to speak to him about it because we did not want to give the impression we were sucking up. The three films are ones we've been quite taken by. 'Barton Fink' does not belong to any genre, but it does belong to a series, certainly one that Roman Polanski originated."

(The Coen Brothers' interview with Jim Emerson, 1991 & The Coen Brothers' interview to Postiff, 1991)

P.S: On this day, 35 years ago, "Barton Fink" (1991) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

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The controversy surrounding Nolan's "Odyssey" reminds me of Proust's comment about leaving pretty women to men who lack imagination.

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"Is not this as you had wished it, Jamuga?"

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

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Nolan’s ODYSSEY is erasure only if some previous version has consequently become unavailable. Otherwise, the use of the word “erasure” is linguistic perversion.

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@acnewsitics It's like when people say BLADE RUNNER is a failed prediction of how LA would look in 2019 instead of recognizing it as an authorial stipulation of how it actually looks in this fictional 2019, such that being wrong is not an option.

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I pity the fool who thinks this film is intended to compete in the category of Best Documentary.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award …

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@GiancarloSopo The desecration had already been done by Athena. The buck stops with her. But why would Sorbo check facts? Why pass up an opportunity to embarrass oneself?

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In "The Graduate," when the entry light in the Robinson's house changes color, they'd consider it not expressionism but a continuity error.

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

it bears repeating that these are some of the dumbest people on the planet

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@Cinemamysoul @BobTheRatReborn My ears are burning.

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People whining about Nolan desecrating "The Odyssey" while it remains intact on library and bookstore shelves around the world. And many of these people also fail to use literary present tense when discussing the story.

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@KR3Wmatic I'd say there's a good reason it's called a wager and not an argument.

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@cwik_greg Fortunately, I don't need to care. I'm not a merchant, so other people's dislikes are not my problem.

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@HearthHellenism Historical accuracy is the duty of historians, not dramatists. Those who look for history in all the wrong places do not deserve to find it. The speaking of English by Bambi is not biologically accurate, but fictional context plus audience sanity keep that from being a problem.

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@Brettdasovic In addition to any valid reasons, they also offer plenty of invalid ones. One thing they don't have is a valid IP case when the story is in the public domain.