December 15, 2005
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The Cinematic
Imagination,
or
“Frida” meets“Under the Volcano”
A scene from “Frida”
and a scene from the
Day of the Dead festival,
Cuernavaca, 10/30/04Related material:
For the Man in Black
(Log 24, 9/13/03)
and
For a Man in Black
(Log 24, 11/17/05).See also the utopia in Robert Graves’s novel, Watch the North Wind Rise– “New
Crete, where the ritual murder of the Victim-King makes murder for less sacred
ends seem unthinkable”– and the Log24 entry “Magical Thinking” of Pearl Harbor Day, 2005.
Comments (1)
It’s that whole King Kong thing – - 18mil. on the first day.
“In discovering through the biographies that Frida was attracted to the movies, especially the horror and comic genres, I decided to use a trip to the movie house to see King Kong as a metaphorical way of expressing her experience with Diego in New York.”