re. Re: Three belated Top 10 lists

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

"Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> schrieb:

> >From: joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net>
> >
> >Ghetta Life wrote:
> > >
> > >Another great Roeg film starring Mick Jagger is "Performance,"
> > >
> >Follow the bullet into Jagger's brain. I'm not that big a fan of the movie, 
> >but the soundtrack featuring Ry Cooder is damned good. Also, "Memo from 
> >Turner" is one of the better lesser known Stones songs.
> 
> MalignD has judged "Memo from Turner" a lame attempt by the Stones to do 
> something Dylan-esque.  I like the song, but MalignD is probably correct 
> about the Dylan thing.
> 



> But Performance is very rich in mythological themes and imagery. 

* So is "The Man Who Fell To Earth". Actually it's (also) a pretty
good introduction to Gnosticism: 

"Gnostic motifs have been identified in that most visionary of 
our modern literary genres, science fiction. Historian William
Irwin Thompson sees the gnostic myth in Nicholas Roeg's film
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH and in Zena Henderson's novel PILGRIMAGE. Both of these stories are about characters whose sojourn on this planet is a tragic separation from their true home. Painfully alienated, they struggle through memory to regain identification with their higher origins."  (Richard Smith: The Modern Relevance of Gnosticism, pp. 532-549, here 546, in James 
M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library in English)

KFL +

PS: And David Bowie is enacting the Pneumatic brilliantly! 


> My wife, a 
> former Classics major at BU, has encapsulated the hero myth ito this simple 
> formula:
> 
> 1.  Journey to  Dark Place.
> 2.  Drink a Potion.
> 3.  See a Vision.
> 4.  Be Changed.
> 
> James Fox's gangster character does just that when he enters the realm of 
> Mick Jagger.  All sorts of the characters' (Fox's & Jagger's) reality are 
> upset and rethought in the ensuing psychedelic journey.  In fact the two 
> characters merge into one, and this merging is consumated at the moment the 
> bullet enters Jagger's brain.  If one watches closely, Mick Jagger is seen 
> looking out the back window of the Gansters' car, when Fox is supposed to be 
> the one back there.
> 
> Ghetta
> 
> 


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