[Spam??] Re: Question: GR and music

[Michel]

I'll put an experimental page online this evening with indexed 
information on GR and film; meanwhile some lists of:

- Actors: http://www.vheissu.net/words/qualifications.php?q=175 (34 
mentions)
- Actresses: http://www.vheissu.net/words/qualifications.php?q=169 (17)
- Directors: http://www.vheissu.net/words/qualifications.php?q=274 (5)
- Movie Titles: http://www.vheissu.net/words/qualifications.php?q=137 
(21)


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Michel

On 2016-11-17 00:12, Heikki R wrote:
> To specify my reply a bit: if memory serves, in his 50-page article
> Clerc quite exhaustively lists all filmic references, filmic
> analogies, fictive films etc. to be found in GR. (Not as exhaustively
> as Mitchell Prettyplace treats King Kong in "his definitive 18-volume
> study" (GR 275), but exhaustively enough...)
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Bruno Nogueira
> <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There's also a mention to an Errol Flynn moustache. Plus the
>> Slothrop stuttering seems to refer to a famous 50s comedy actor
>> (forgot the name, sorry).
>> 
>> 2016-11-16 16:23 GMT-06:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> http://chiseler.org/post/77291395550/the-dark-side-of-shirley-temple
>> [1]
>> 
>> In 1973, Thomas Pynchon published what is considered by many to be
>> one of the greatest novels ever written, _Gravity’s Rainbow_. Now,
>> among its myriad storylines and countless memorable scenes, one
>> stands out among all the others as perhaps the most notorious. About
>> halfway through the novel, we’re introduced to Bianca..
>> 
>> Without going into all the preceding narrative details, let’s just
>> say Bianca is first described as “a knockout, alright, 11 or 12,
>> dark and lovely…” She is in fact, if I am reading my contextual
>> clues correctly, roughly 16, and makes her appearance during a
>> drunken orgy scene aboard a yacht called the Anubis:
>> “…{F}unseekers crowded eagerly around a cleared space where
>> Bianca now stands pouting, her little red frock halfway up her
>> slender thighs, with black lace petticoats peeping from beneath the
>> hem…”
>> 
>> Urged on by her mother, Margherita, she sings “On the Good Ship
>> Lollipop” to the horny crowd while performing a dead-on Shirley
>> Temple impression. Her mother then demands she sing “Animal
>> Crackers in My Soup.” Bianca refuses, and a reveler shouts
>> “Super Animals in My Crack!”—a line which has stuck with me
>> ever since.
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:08 PM, kelber at mindspring.com
>> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Looking through the film references section of the GR wiki, it looks
>> like the only references to an actual film is, of course, King Kong.
>> And there's a reference to the son ( not capitalized) of
>> Frankenstein. He mentions Cecil B. Demille, the Marx Brothers, and
>> offhandedly, Bela Lugosi. I guess clips of various German
>> expressionist movies from the 20s would best capture the book.
>> 
>> Laura
>> 
>> _Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID_
>> 
>> János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> A musician friend is member of a group which creates improvised
>> accompaniment to film montages without soundtrack,
>> nickelodeon-style. He chose GR as a theme for his next concert. He
>> asked for a comprehensive essay about references to films in the
>> book. Can you help?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> János
> 
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> Links:
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> http://chiseler.org/post/77291395550/the-dark-side-of-shirley-temple
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