antw.re: everyone's gone to the movies

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- lorentzen-nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:

> ("affektkultur")

Wonderful word

>.... are there "anti-public-laughter-laws" in new york?

The hardest I've ever laughed at the movies (really, *really* laughed)
was at Tim Burton & Paul Reubens' "Pee Wee's Big Adventure". This was
in a big sticky theater in Times Square, and folks were laughing so
hard that at one point I looked over from my aisle seat and saw a man
on his hands and knees, right down there on the be-gummed and mildewy
carpet, clutching his midrift and wailing "my stomach, my stomach".
Last I saw him he was crawling past me up toward the lobby, still
laughing and weeping.

I've been in another audience like it.

By the by, "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" might even qualify as
Pynchonian... a paranoid central character is on an extravagant and
ludicrous quest, the structure is loose and episodic (if maybe a tad
linear), the ending is self-reflexive, and the jokes tend to be Cheap.
The movie is like a laboratory dish in an incubator, American pop
culture is the growth medium, and the absurd characters flounder around
under the microscope.

Mark


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