Intellect vs Emotion (now Film and Music vs Literature)

[S J Pate]

>>Just look at the way most of us read Pynchon in 
>>particular, ie very slowly; sometimes the same sentence over and 
>>over, or even a single character. 
>
>Film isn't slow? Then you've never seen Tarkovsky's Stalker. That movie was
>like reading a hundred GR's.
>
>MantaRay
>
>
How about Warhol's Empire... you can't get much slower than that. I'd
venture to say that Warhol's Empire is "slower" than any novel about the
building, picture of the building, etc. could possibly be. The point is
that since film is a medium that relies HEAVILY on the passage of time
(whereas fiction does so only marginally) that it is possible to represent
that passage accutely. A narrative can _indicate_ the passage of time, but
obviously not with the immediacy of film. Now music, that's another story...
S J Pate
<spate at richmond.edu>