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Monthly Archives: February 2012
An argument for dating your work
I’m really not going to pass up a chance to post a Big Lebowski clip if I can. Anyway, I found the lip-synched Killers scene to be odd, fascinating, a little disturbing, and, well, familiar. It took about five seconds … Continue reading
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Tagged Justin Timberlake, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales, The Big Lebowski, The Killers, The Pixies
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Southland Tales Post
What struck me in this film was the repetition of certain phrases and tropes by characters and Pilot Abilene the narrator. “No one rocks the cock like Krysta Now.” “Welcome to the apocalypse.” “—is a pimp, and pimps don’t commit … Continue reading
Everybody’s an actor/viewer/consumer/product
Wallace’s “Fictional Futures” deals with the Contemporary Young Writers in their culture and vs. the older generation. Some of the things he wrote made me think of Southland Tales though, basically through the medium of TV, its ubiquity in the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Fictional Futures", David Foster Wallace, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales, Television
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The Soul of Patriotism
Pilot’s drug-induced musical number is extremely weird. At first I thought they just wanted to add the scene for the sake of some fun camp, and maybe to highlight the fact that, “Fire Arcade was the place where we drank, … Continue reading
USIdent as a Narrator in ‘Southland Tales’
In class we looked at the first page of the graphic novel for quite some time – especially focusing on the computer-generated picture of USIdent. In a similar manner, I’d like to discuss a specific occurrence (and reoccurrence) that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Multimedia, Narrative, Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
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From a Graphic Novel Virgin
This is my first experience reading a graphic novel, and I have to say that I enjoyed it… for the most part. When I started to read Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga, I was bothered by the animation. Not because … Continue reading
Southland-Now
Instead of focusing on a specific passage from the graphic novel, I’m focusing on the specific instance within the movie whenever Krista Now discusses her plans at lunch to launch her new career. Krista explains how she is revamping her … Continue reading
Southland Tales: New?
I’ll admit that I have a fairly limited amount of experience with graphic novels (so far the only ones I’ve read are Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and now Southland Tales). In that limited scope though, I don’t think Southland Tales … Continue reading
The Character of Southland Tales
In terms of characterization I found that Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga went much more in-depth. The characters seemed to be very dynamic for the most part. Boxer Santaros was completely fleshed-out as well as Krysta Now, and Ronald Taverner. … Continue reading
