Hitchcock (was Heres an Essay I Wrote (sic))

[Carvill John]

I think Hitchcock achieved deeper meaningfulness than  the critics gave him credit for at the time, and in fact he was deeper than he consciously intended to be. Not that it's my favourite Hitchcock film, but there's no denying the depth in 'Vertigo', for instance.
Do we reckon the movie references in BE mean anything much? More or less than in IV? Of course we recall all the film stuff in VL - 24fps, Hollywood unions, etc. I notice that, as in IV, film titles frequently have the date appended to them - but not always. Is this non uniformity deliberate or accidental? 


> Subject: Re: Heres an Essay I Wrote About The Bleeding Edge Book Trailer - Spoiler
> From: brook7 at sover.net
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 01:45:04 -0400
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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>  Responding to Michael B
> good locus for discussion.  Kind of interesting also to think of Hitchcock as a master of deeper meaning, because he probably is to some degree, but that isn't really what I think of. Others?  Another BE Hitchcock reference was to Rear Window, with the urban apartment under observation being transferred in BE to the Deseret. And one of the observations  that Reg the filmmaker's investigation initiates  is what Reg shot there on the roof, a shot of a shooter of a shooter of a future shooter.  Obviously rife with undeveloped  "deeper meaning".
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> On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:03 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
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> > No spoilers here...but doesn't it seem like a typically humble take, the wiseacre kid who wrote about Nueva York in V. not having learned a gosh darn thing, writing about the City again 50 years later?
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> > "after a bunch of journeyings, to, like, come back & know the place for the 1st time"
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> > Or - now this is a quote from pg 143 - scroll down if not keeping perception virginal -
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> > "ain't like I was ever Alfred Hitchcock or somethin.  
> > You can watch my stuff till you're crosseyed and there'll never be any deeper meaning. 
> > I see something interesting, I shoot it is all."
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> > Well anyway, that's the big angle I'm cogitating on for the nonce, BE vis a vis V.  And the implausible denial, a storytelling tradition, of high-flown or wide-ranging or deeply meaningful aspirations.
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> > I am truly not going to develop this right now - attention span issues as well as "too soon" - but it does seem kinda juicy for a compare / contrast at some pt.
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