Fw: IVIV another Coen Bros' resonance--and more?
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 28 17:44:41 CDT 2009
> p. 6 'This picture of Doc's showed
> a Southern Califronia beach that never was", etc.....
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> Did this remind anyone else of the postcard of the girl on
> the beach in The Coen Bros.' Hollywood story, "Barton Fink"?
> It becomes the last shot of the movie. I've seen it as a
> doubly resonant 'dream factory' image...dreamy [unreal]
> scenes we dreamily long for...
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> As written in IV, this Sou Calif beach 'that never was', is
> a(nother) internal metaphor for ...paradise?..Shambala
> (symbolically)...Doc's
> delusions? as he looks at it when he doesn't want to look
> thru the "the glass-type" one. And, usuallly wehn smoking
> weed....see "contrast knob of Creation"... "it would have an
> underglow, a luminous edge that the night was to turn
> epic"....
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> With his lawyer named Saunch, is this where we get Doc as
> Quixote? A knight against the night about to turn
> epic---joke?
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