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

[ish mailian]

Yeah, as they say in the book, Late Capitalism. The multinational Sony
Multiplex in manhattan playing a film that will spin off five or six more,
plus merchandise...toys and so forth, and it plays more like, in F.
Jameson's definitions, a Trailer, and it is, in that it carries a stack of
car commercials ...;-)

Would think Ernie might be more comfortable with the silver haired smart
set at the Lincoln center foreign film festival or at home watching the
original, 1955 F&F than with the fast and furious at the multiplex.

But he snuck over to Sony for a not so, not even with a senior
discount, cheap thrill.


On Saturday, March 5, 2016, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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.
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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