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alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 18:58:12 CST 2011


> I think for a 1st movie (or stage play?) of IV I'd stick pretty close
> to the text, and only maybe after a few "straight" takes had been done
> would I put a wire on Shasta -- like those latter-day Hamlets where
> Denmark is a corporation or something...
Big difference between that stage and that screen. I suspect that
Adorno's influence is none, but the ideas that the Franks and later
critics devised about the screen and the stage, and those corporate
_Hamlets_, while they were put on stages, were surely made for the
screen or the camera, applies here. The reader, like Kaje and the
Midget Sheriff, are all ashes and plots for the camera.



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