tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621995982503387078.post2767258341669461459..comments2024-03-25T12:06:32.583-05:00Comments on THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE: ADDENDA TO GENRE-FENCESGene Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621995982503387078.post-37052275593671592762012-04-21T16:01:24.599-05:002012-04-21T16:01:24.599-05:00Pilot,
Yes, it's possible that Scipio has such...Pilot,<br />Yes, it's possible that Scipio has such a policy, and that I just missed it. I jumped back to his earliest posts and didn't see any notifications of it. <br /><br />I did, oddly enough, see a post that repeated the words 'semen count' over and over!<br /><br />Discounting PSYCHO, I've seen four other Van Sant-directed films, and yeah, he's definitely into potraying the tedium and disaffective nausea of ordinary life.<br /><br />He makes an interesting contrast with Hitchcock. Even though AH could get bleak or savage by turns, he was always aware that he was an entertainer; that he needed to give the audience something they already wanted.<br /><br />Whether Van Sant is a successful "artist" or not, he certainly takes the attitude of the artist who's going to try to sell you that he has something the audience *ought* to want.Gene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621995982503387078.post-7398959562607654612012-04-18T23:58:40.222-05:002012-04-18T23:58:40.222-05:00It's odd that the blogger did not respond. Yo...It's odd that the blogger did not respond. Your essay certainly has a friendly tone.<br /><br />It may be that he does not allow links to other websites? That's what some administrators in some forums do. (I remember one administrator tell me that he edited my post because he did not want readers to go to another website.)<br /><br />Oh, I was going to post this in the PSYCHO entry of your movie blog, but it seems more appropriate here since I'm also referring to comics:<br /><br />Have you watched other Gus Van Sant films? I've seen some of PSYCHO and another one that I can't remember, but his movies have some resemblance to the comic books of authors like Harvey Pekar and Daniel Clowes. Both Pekar and the director attempt to create a kind of boring "reality" in their respective works--maybe emulating the "dullness" of life? I think that even the GHOST WORLD movie has a similar approach to the Van Sant films.<br /><br />P.S. There is a PDF book in this <a href="http://danielraeburn.com/The_Imp,_by_Daniel_Raeburn.html" rel="nofollow">link</a> that may be of interest (scroll down), especially if you are going to write more essays on the pulp-inspired DC books.AT-AT Pilothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08542516243211094101noreply@blogger.com