Yeah, as they say in the book, Late Capitalism. The multinational Sony Multiplex in manhattan playing a film that will spin off five or six more, plus merchandise...toys and so forth, and it plays more like, in F. Jameson's definitions, a Trailer, and it is, in that it carries a stack of car commercials ...;-)<div><br></div><div>Would think Ernie might be more comfortable with the silver haired smart set at the Lincoln center foreign film festival or at home watching the original, 1955 F&F than with the fast and furious at the multiplex. </div><div><br></div><div>But he snuck over to Sony for a not so, not even with a senior discount, cheap thrill. </div><div><br><div><br>On Saturday, March 5, 2016, Paul Mackin <<a href="mailto:mackin.paul@gmail.com">mackin.paul@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sounds a little like Ernie (seeing cop show) is secretly admitting the Struggle is over. Capitalism has won. <div><br></div><div><i>Don't know enough of the novel to comment however,</i></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:47 AM, ish mailian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian@gmail.com');" target="_blank">ishmailian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What to make of that Marx Brother Opera anyway?<br>
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:44 AM, ish mailian <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian@gmail.com');" target="_blank">ishmailian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ernie can't stand Lincoln Center. LC of course, and the novel provides<br>
> some history, is critiqued by nearly everyone for everything it was<br>
> planned for and is, everything it produces and doesn't. Maybe only the<br>
> JFK CPA is subjected to more critiques.<br>
><br>
> In any event, Ernie protested with March, against Moses and<br>
> gentrification and so on, against LC, but he can't stay away from the<br>
> Opera at LC. Not that this makes him a hypocrite but...<br>
><br>
> Ernie loves Opera. Sees it as instructive. Live Opera at LC is great<br>
> stuff and the family, with the notable exception of Maxine, loves<br>
> opera. so when Maxine finds Ernie watching an obscure comic<br>
> interpretation, a Marx Brothers Opera on the Tube,and they talk Opera<br>
> and Cop shows we have more going on than merely Pynchon's high low<br>
> culture mixing here.<br>
><br>
> Ernie maintains that, though he grounded (punished) his girls for<br>
> watching cop shows, admonished them and punished them, they watched<br>
> them and were brainwashed by them, while Maxine maintains that Ernie's<br>
> admonishments and punishments may have backfired.<br>
><br>
> So in CH 23, P needs to get everyone out of the house but Maxine and<br>
> her brother-in-law. He sends Ernie to a film at LC. Presumably, to<br>
> the FSLC<br>
> <a href="http://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/</a><br>
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> Where else would he catch a Kyrgyz film, in 2001 at LC?<br>
><br>
> So, a very cool thing happening at LC. So LC is, like so much of NYC,<br>
> part shopping mall, part, wonderful art and culture. So Ernie's wife<br>
> and other daughter are down at Century 21 and he is at LC. But then we<br>
> are told that he's not at LC, but at the Sony Multiplex catching a cop<br>
> movie instead. The Fast and the Furious.<br>
><br>
> Nothing wrong in that. How is he going to critique cop shows and<br>
> movies if he doesn't see them?<br>
><br>
> Bu the contrast of the two films is important here.<br>
><br>
> Pynchon, of course, writes quite a bit about both, cops and Kyrgyz. So<br>
> he too watches film on both. Nothing the matter with that. Nothing<br>
> hypocritical.<br>
><br>
> But Ernie "snuck over" to Sony to see FAF. 247<br>
><br>
> Ernie is a good old guy. His paranoia is positive. But he's a bit of a<br>
> fool. He can't fool me.<br>
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