Pynchon-Eliot-Coppola

[Sean Winkel]

{"But speaking of the French, reminds me, saw
Apocalypse
Now Redux over the weekend.  The additional material's
actually been widely available for some time now,
albeit not necessarily cut into the film.  Probably
for good reason.  But did strike me as well past the
halfway point to Gravity's Rainbow: Now a Major Motion
Picture ...

Also, note that permission had to be granted by  Mrs.
T.S. Eliot for use of material from "The Hollow Men." 
Isn't this a bit like going to Vanilla Ice for
permission to use the David Bowie/Queen "Under
Pressure" bassline (oh, wait, I forgot, tehre's an
extra note ...)?  Or was there more of TSE's poem
used?  Can't recall ..."}

I don't think there was any more of the Hollow Men
used, however Dennis Hopper DOES quote from "the Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"- "I should've been a pair
of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent 
seas.

Also- it DOES seem like some celluloid "Gravity's
Rainbow" analog, but what really struck me (as I'd
just finished re-reading it) seeing this fattened up
version was how much it seems to... prefigure M&D-
thematically.  'Specially this new bit with the French
plantation...the River- the Line...



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