Noun Used As A Verb, Film At Eleven
Feb. 16th, 2009 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Re yuki-onna, talking about how the ending of Watchmen doesn't work for her because she's been "Neuromancered"...WTF does that even mean, exactly? I read Neuromancer, but about a million years ago, and it occurs to me that perhaps it was exactly as not-so-impressive to me, in the end, as Watchmen was to her. But seriously: There's something "innate" in a received-wisdom sense that I'm supposed to be getting from the reference about how best to end a book, right? And...I'm just not gettin' it, sorry.
I should probably be asking her, I suppose, rather than the universe at large. But I get the feeling I'd just get slapped for being dumb, and I'm not all too into that right now.
I should probably be asking her, I suppose, rather than the universe at large. But I get the feeling I'd just get slapped for being dumb, and I'm not all too into that right now.
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Date: 2009-02-17 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-17 02:25 am (UTC)The fact that she mentioned Neuromancer going into the riff on The Watchman, just to me, wasn't actually an attempt to connect the endings of the two.
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Date: 2009-02-17 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-17 03:05 am (UTC)It's still not a reaction that makes sense to me; I find that really amazing art, whether visual or cinematic or literary, does not lose its effectiveness even after it's become a cultural cornerstore and been imitated, quoted, homaged into infinity: otherwise no one would ever bother to watch Casablanca anymore.
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Date: 2009-02-17 04:23 am (UTC)Then again, we're also talking about people who didn't want to watch Koyaanisqatsi because of "all the '80s hair", and people who said, when I said: "But of course, you've all seen Silence of the Lambs, replied: "But that's really OLD!"
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:15 am (UTC)*headdesk*
Man. Learn cuneiform. Complain to me then.
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:39 am (UTC)