Hi RWM,
The Naomi Watts produced US remake of Funny Games did show in
Australia a few months ago.
Both the original and the remake - which is pretty much frame for
frame a copy of the original - (very much a difference and repetition
a la Deleuze) would expose a lot of Baudrillard to a re-think. I don't
like the assumption that without having seen the film you can simply
drop some theory on top of it.
Haneke is such a precise filmmaker - the fact he barely changed the
re-make is an indication of this.
Funny Games is strange - more a moral lesson than anything else.
Indeed, like Witggensteins ladder, Haneke said once you have learned
the lesson you can cast the film away... "whereof one cannot speak
thereof one must be silent."
Roland
2009/1/12 Manning <[log in to unmask]>:
> I cannot comment on Funny Games as it has not opened in Australia, nor have
> I seen the original. The genre of torture –porn does however offer food for
> thought. I offer a snippet of an essay I am writing for the IJBS. I am
> juxtaposing Blow Up with Hostel and attempting to tease out what has
> 'happened' to film symbolisms in the interim.
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> It's not the disturbing content on the screen which perturbs me but the
> thought of being trapped in front of such an aesthetically poor film,
> (Hostel) devoid of theme and symbolism. I am not worried about the gore-fest
> on the screen but overwhelmed by the total lack of point to the film other
> than to sell tickets to adolescents keen on an undifferentiated viscerally
> bloody experience. This is perhaps what Baudrillard labeled a "pure machinic
> violence" alluding to what is a recurrent theme in his work: that of an
> unsymbolized form of systemic destruction, an image devoid of a referent,
> something evil we cannot exchange or reverse. Therefore when we watch Hostel
> we can measure this by the paucity of documented film analysis it has
> provoked in the film community on the one hand and observing its vocabulary
> of appreciation which is reduced to adolescent (hyperreal) words like "cool"
> or "sick" on the other. So in this sense writing a diatribe against Hostel
> is an attempt to use it as a tool to talk about filmed death because I can't
> see how to use it any other positive or engaging way.
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> rwm
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