Legacy of 24fps
Bekah
Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 10 20:24:29 CDT 2009
On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> Here's a question however.
>
> If you could watch the Peoples Republic of Rock'n'Roll vs. the
> State as produced by 24fps, would it be "truer," "less true," or
> "equally true" as compared with the same confrontation as written
> by Thomas Pynchon,?
In and of itself, I think it would be less "true" (depending on
your definition of that, of course) because it would be from only
one perspective. Pynchon tries to get behind the action and view it
from a third person omniscient (or at least semi-omniscient) pov. So
he's bringing the info of who's holding the camera, who's just
getting there, who's thinking about what. -
Of course this is not to say that the first person camera view is not
"more true." It's just to say I think you have a better perspective
on the whole in Pynchon than with a camera lens. - And then,
too, in hands less capable than those of OBA the wider perspective
could distort everything.
oh well - I tried.... (g)
Bekah
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