Film and Reflexivity

[Teen Age Riot]

While we're still in this mood of purging our thoughts of all other artists
Pynchonian, lemme throw another name out, more out of circumstance than of
strong correlation, but an interesting comparison nonetheless:  How about
Tom Stoppard?  He's here at Penn this week for an assortment of festivities,
and I'm going to hear him speak tomorrow on "The Landscape of Late
Modernism"(4 pm at the Annenberg School Theatre if any of you are in the
Philadelphia area), and it got me thinking.  He cowrote the script for
_Brazil_, which we seem to agree smacks quite a bit of TRP. While I hate to
attach any sort of blanket statement to his work, as he's way prolific, he
has tackled certain themes which p-listers might find familiar: the role of
the individual driven by larger forces, the interplay of science, art, and
history, etc.  And don't forget that all-important first name factor. 

Al

  
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