GR (the movie)

[jporter]

>From a different angle, film seems much too cold a medium to conduct the
heat of pynchon's work. His techniques insinuate the voices he creates into
the brains of his readers on so many different levels- cozies up to the
origins of insecurities, fears, embarrassments- latent and otherwise-
(especially in GR) and allows them to be felt, in the familiar posture of
bookreading...the experience becomes personalized, and invites personal
participation in the completion of the act.  These are general differences
between books and film, but pynchon's willingness to use everything from
limmericks to baldfaced asides to the reader, invites far more reader
participation in the conspiracy of creation then most books prior to GR
were able or willing to do.

By frequently appropriating the guises of "colder" mass mediums like film
and tv, he uses a common currency to get where he wants to go, as well as
make his points about those mediums. He makes colder mediums hot by
dragging the passive couch potato(e) conventions of mass media into his own
work. Do we look at tv or film in the same way post GR or Vineland?

jp