BE 's Satire of Ernie: Kyrgyz @ LC & The Fast and the Furious at the Sony

[ish mailian]

What to make of that Marx Brother Opera anyway?

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:44 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ernie can't stand Lincoln Center. LC of course, and the novel provides
> some history, is critiqued by nearly everyone for everything it was
> planned for and is, everything it produces and doesn't. Maybe only the
> JFK CPA is subjected to more critiques.
>
> In any event, Ernie protested with March, against Moses and
> gentrification and so on, against LC, but he can't stay away from the
> Opera at LC. Not that this makes him a hypocrite but...
>
> Ernie loves Opera. Sees it as instructive. Live Opera at LC is great
> stuff and the family, with the notable exception of Maxine, loves
> opera. so when Maxine finds Ernie watching an obscure comic
> interpretation, a Marx Brothers Opera on the Tube,and they talk Opera
> and Cop shows we have more going on than merely Pynchon's high low
> culture mixing here.
>
> Ernie maintains that, though he grounded (punished) his girls for
> watching cop shows, admonished them and punished them, they watched
> them and were brainwashed by them, while Maxine maintains that Ernie's
> admonishments and punishments may have backfired.
>
> So in CH 23, P needs to get everyone out of the house but Maxine and
> her brother-in-law. He sends Ernie to a film at LC. Presumably,  to
> the FSLC
> http://www.filmlinc.org/about-us/
>
> Where else would he catch a Kyrgyz film, in 2001 at LC?
>
> So, a very cool thing happening at LC. So LC is, like so much of NYC,
> part shopping mall, part, wonderful art and culture. So Ernie's wife
> and other daughter are down at Century 21 and he is at LC. But then we
> are told that he's not at LC, but at the Sony Multiplex catching a cop
> movie instead. The Fast and the Furious.
>
> Nothing wrong in that. How is he going to critique cop shows and
> movies if he doesn't see them?
>
> Bu the contrast of the two films is important here.
>
> Pynchon, of course, writes quite a bit about both, cops and Kyrgyz. So
> he too watches film on both. Nothing the matter with that. Nothing
> hypocritical.
>
> But Ernie "snuck over" to Sony to see FAF. 247
>
> Ernie is a good old guy. His paranoia is positive. But he's a bit of a
> fool. He can't fool me.
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