Subject: Into the Waters!
From: Royce Froehlich (royce@pipeline.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 18:41:13 CST
I 'did' John Waters' "Director's Cut" in one shot; I swallowed it whole.
Very satisfying. A pleasant low-voltage jolt of amphetamine/protein.
There are thousand shots (probably at least 1100) in the almost three
hundred pages. It would be fun to see them edited together. [24 into
1100=45.83 seconds] As a reader, Eye am a projector, but not @ 24
frames/second.
The author's summary comments, thankfully/thoughtfully found in the rear as
an afterword, put the icing on the cake. Clear, sparse, and to the point.
If you missed the target of the shots on the first driveby, here you'll get
the picture(s).
It helps to have read a bit of Deleuze and Guattari and DJ Spooky. I like
how, in French and German, a film or piece of music is "realized." (What
does one says about other art forms like painting or writing? Is a painting
‘realized', too? Someone please inform.)
It seems to me that the Afterword in "Director's Cut" realizes the
ready-re-mades Waters has put together. Drink the book; here, at the end,
you can read the movie. Realized, too, is simcult theory in a neat package
(hence, my gratitude for preprep through our French nomadologists and their
spinning offspring Paul Miller, a.k.a. the Subliminal Kid hisself, who
offer the longerwinded version of what Waters brings to five channel
quint-essence).
Like a lowcut minidress, there's both a little there and a lot; seeing what
the presenter wants to show us. Its ironic, barebones, self-referential
style informs as it entertains. I appreciate that shots from films which
readers may not have seen are briefly introduced and neatly placed in their
historical context. That's the academic part, the Afterword, which is not
at all necessary for exploring the first part--groups of stills from famous
and not-so films, as well as the director's own. When recontextualized
(rehistoricized), they are meant to tell new, thought provoking and/or
amusing tales. If I had a couple of spare copies I'd cut the stills and
make them into a flip book.
Schelling and Hoeldlerline some other time.........
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