VL-IV: Chap7-Wayvone wedding

[Amy E. Vorro]

On a different note...

I've always found the Wavyone wedding reminiscent of the Godfather wedding/first communion scenes.



The extravagance of the wedding is not dissimilar to Connie Corleone's
wedding, the scene that opens the first Godfather. But more interesting
is the first communion party Michael throws for his son a few scenes
into the second film. Billy Barf's band is as entirely unaware of
"traditional" Italian music as the band Michael hires. At one point
Frankie Pantangeles tries to prompt the band into a tarantella and the
best they can manage is "Pop Goes the Weasel," just as Billy is muscled
by Two-Ton Carmine to play "C'est la Luna." 



Also, skipping around a bit, Ralphs's sister's name is Gelsomina - the
same name as Fellini's main character in La Strada - another Italian
film with a wedding scene, though admittedly more provincial. 


I haven't explored these connections, and it probably wouldn't lead to much, but they never cease to amuse me. 


Amy Vorro



> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:46:08 -0500
> From: kelber at mindspring.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: VL-IV: Chap7-Wayvone wedding
> 
> Tahiti is one island in the multiple islands composing French Polynesia.  Maybe it's Ralph talking?:  any old Tahiti or one of them other islands.
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> 
> >Laura:
> >Nice image of taking a vacation in time rather than space, but the sentence has an odd ending:
> >
> >"[Ralph Sr.] could take another of what he'd come to think of as microvacations on an island of time fragile and precious as any Tahiti or one of them."  One of them?
> >
> >I found this: Any Tahiti Resort Guide would give you detailed information about just what hotels in Tahiti have to offer. 
> >
> >Perhaps the phrase has currency for the islands in the aggregate and 'one of them' apllies to just one island? yes, strange verbal
> >construction. 
> 
> 
> 

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