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

[Paul Mackin]

Sounds a little like Ernie (seeing cop show) is secretly admitting the
Struggle is over. Capitalism has won.

*Don't know enough of the novel to comment however,*

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:47 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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