Old fans who've always been at the movies

[jochen stremmel]

What a great post, Joseph!


2013/5/30 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>

> The movie and the particular scene in the movie at the moment of impact
> fits into Pynchon's writing history as something that would engage him. So
> he moves the arrival of another bomb, this one directly connected to the
> revenge of the colonized preterite, to L.A.,  the imperial center of the
> dream factory., generator of the tricky Dick and of the Great BonzoGipper
> 20 MuleteamRaygun bring down this wall and put up a wallmartman.
>
> The actual payback bomb took longer to arrive: after 50,000 suicides from
> Vietnam, after fucking over Cambodia, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina,
> Columbia, after theShah after El Salvador and Guatemala and Nicaragua and
> Angola and the Congo and Nigeria, after all the glorious victories over
> communism, over uppity nuns, over labor unions, over tomato pickers, over
> banana growers and mineworkers, and folk singers,smart ass rag-heads, after
> safely containing most of the niggers and having a good laugh at the uppity
> bitches After consolidating the ragheads under our thumb, while innocently
> strolling to the bank, the evil terrorists finally snuck one past us.
>
>  Is there something about Air Power/TV/film  that is particularly apropos
> of the rule of a demigod? Do they all use color coded fear monitors? Are we
> safe yet?
>
> On May 29, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Monte Davis wrote:
>
> > (Haven’t we?)
> >
> > Antwerp, 1944:
> >
> > “Nearly twelve hundred seats were filled in the Rex Cinema on bustling
> Avenue De Keyser for the Friday afternoon matinee on December 15… [for] a
> classic Western: The Plainsman, a Cecil B. De Mille melodrama starring Gary
> Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane…
> >
> > “At 3:20 p.m., just after Gary Cooper learned of Custer’s death at the
> Little Bighorn, a searing white light flashed across the auditorium as a
> V-2 – unheard and unseen, launched from a new site in Holland – blew
> through the roof… Recovery teams ultimately retrieved 567 bodies, more than
> half of them Allied soldiers, Navy gun crews,  and merchant mariners...”
> >
> > Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe,
>  1944-1945
>
>
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