Posted by *Bethany* at hse-montreal-ppp138685.sympatico.ca on February 16, 2002 at 13:46:55:
In Reply to: Re: revulsion - perish the thought! posted by phone monkey on February 16, 2002 at 11:50:46:
: : well, I am a great fan, love each and every work you have ever done, but..... sitting at a friends place watching the dogma DVD for the first time, and was instructed to post a message that you talk too much kevin(cut scenes).
: UH, you know you can change the audio, right?
: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU??????
: Five movies, except for the Chasing Amy story, maybe 3 lines of dialogue in the five of them, and you want the guy to talk less?
: Personally, I think it's great he wants to rap about what the scenes meant to him, why they are in or out, and what he hoped to achieve with them. It's what makes a movie have lasting value.
: And it's a mini-lesson in the art and craft, and business, of making film that I otherwise would know nothing about.
: And BY THE WAY, Kevin frequently asserts that he is not a brilliant visual stylist. I interpret this differently. To illustrate, New Wave French cinema was all about the movie, and not about the narrative -- the goal was to forget the story and focus on the movie - dialogue was there, but in a good way, all sound and fury signifying nothing.
: In the Askewniverse, movies have moved passed the stage where HEY! we can show you what we mean in COLORS! and present people, characters, who are constant, but have an ever shifting, and essentially unimportant background. You know who they are more than where they are, and that is why, sitting here in Minnesota, not far from where Mallrats was filmed, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma and JSBSB are no harder to understand than that film was. It is the ability to separate the characters from the backdrops that will make these films interesting and entertaining for future generations.
: Aaaaahhh, cappuchino.... Think I'll go have another double expresso Americano before the next thought.