Time to pack up, go home

[John Bailey]

If my long-gone years of studying film history serve me correctly
(they've served me little else, elsewhere), 'blockbuster' was once
used to describe a practice of distribution rather than reception -
studios in the 70s began releasing certain films on massive numbers of
screens across the States rather than trickling them out in 'blocks'
across different markets. This carpet-bombing strategy resulted in
huge rewards as particular films took on the air of a country-wide
sensation. I think Jaws [1975] is widely considered the first
blockbuster of this kind, however, and Gatsby the Movie was released
in '74, so probably not an appropriate interpretation of the term
here.

The real estate tactic of racial 'blockbusting' also has nice links to
Inherent Vice, however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting

Back to the topic - I guess Siegel has some sort of point. Along the
lines of "human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass
hysteria!"

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> Oh. It was the blockbuster movie they so foolishly released. It was a
> blockbuster only when compared to the one they didn't release.
>
> From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
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>
> "A scene from The Great Gatsby, the blockbuster movie based on the
> classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that was
> first published in 1925. Photograph: Allstar
> Collection/Cinetext/PARA/Sportsphoto Ltd."
>
> What Blockbuster Movie?
> On Jul 3, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Page wrote:
>
>> It appears that we are on a group fool's mission, or fools' group
>> misssion.
>> Why bother with V. or anything else literary? 2010 brings us, to
>> quote a
>> Greek lady of some renown, "Death, death, death."
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/04/literary-storm-lee-siegel-american-novel-dead
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