> > Here is a direct quote from Clement Maurice...
>
>What is the source of this quote?
Toulet, Emmanuelle. THE BIRTH OF THE MOTION PICTURE. New York: Henry
Abrams, 1995. (English translation; there is the original French
copyright in 1988 from Gallimard.)
Toulet places the more legendary bit of info--audiences ran from the
theatre--next to Clement's observations--audiences were bewildered
but returned with friends. He makes no commentary about the veracity
of the legendary "reaction." I like that touch. Anyway, I am sure
audiences were bewildered.
But film lore is filled with let downs. I remember getting a copy of
Cannibal Ferox. I couldn't wait to see the most disgusting film ever
made. I was a kid, you know. It ended up being a series of awfully
acted scenes about cocaine intermixed with animal torture performed
by "natives"--they actually tied animals to sticks to hold them in
place--and one awfully hilarious scene of castration...but the guy
could still run around without any visible pain. I spent twenty
bucks on the video. big let down...advertising and critics...never
to be trusted.
tchau,
gary norris
--
Nothing (not even God) now disappears by coming to an end, by dying.
Instead, things disappear through proliferation or contamination, by
becoming saturated or transparent, because of extenuation or
extermination, or as a result of the epidemic of simulation, as a result
of their transfer into the secondary existence of simulation. Rather
than a mortal mode of disappearance, then, a fractal mode of dispersal.
Jean Baudrillard, TRANSPARENCY OF EVIL.
|