On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:17:48 -0400, Frank, Michael <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>as ken mogg clearly knows, i've been unable to stop talking nonsense all
these years
Mike, I did NOT say that, nor try to imply it (I don't KNOW what you've been
telling your students all these years - most of what you have posted here
has been very reasonable, and moderate, against some other posts), simply that
Truffaut's 'Hitchcock' is a book that scholars brush aside 'at their
peril, i.e., at the RISK of not seeing the forest for the trees and/or of
talking nonsense' - for clearly (in my, and others', ongoing investigation)
Hitchcock was a genius in ways which remain to be fathomed, and which, in
complexity and nuance, exceed anything that the Truffaut book covers.
NONETHELESS, Hitchcock knew what was essential and central to the tales his
films told, and his being able to stay focussed on those matters in
interviews - and in the actual telling - was itself part of his genius (as I
tried to suggest last time, by my comparison with Leonardo). 'Directors who
lose control are concerned with the abstract', Hitchcock told Truffaut, an
admirable credo in my view. And Truffaut remarked, sagely, that the quality
of REAR WINDOW 'is simply its lucidity'.
- Ken Mogg
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/news-home_c.html
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