thanks for suggesting Virilio - i will certainly take a look. i wonder if i could humbly request a
clarification about the use of 'anti-American(ism)' - is it a specific political attitude of, say,
something like going against the American ideas? it seems to be used a lot - for example, i did
some research on Dogville and, of course, it was taken as 'anti-American' etc.
evgeni
--- William Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Pace Henry Miller's response, Evgeni's brief analysis of Bourne Ultimatum
> (cameras attached to guns, etc), sounds like the kind of stuff from
> Virilio's War and Cinema and/or The Vision Machine. It's (sorry, Henry M),
> pretty standard French anti-American stuff... But engaging nonetheless...
> (And mercifully short!)
>
> >
> > in the last bourne film there's a scene where CIA folks are following
> > an operation in which a former CIA fellow is about to be eliminated,
> > however, the operation takes place in Morocco where they don't have as
> > much surveillance as in London for the filmmakers to incorporate into
> > the scene, so they do a rather amusing and clearly childish thing where
> > CIA bosses stare at the map of Tangir and the agent and his target are
> > represented with cure little moving dots. in another scene they have a
> > fellow with a camera on a motorcycle following a suspect - it looked like
> > it was very uncomfortable for the guy to ride a bike and hold a camera,
> and
> > of course every agent in the field has a small digital camera - they are
> even
> > attached to a gun in one scene. all of this, i wonder, just so that people
> > back at the office have something to look at, even if it very likely
> needlessly
> > complicates the actual surveillance.
> >
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