Legacy of 24fps

[Bekah]

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