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...shift in the craziness spectrum is the video for “Telephone,” which succeeds in surpassing even the imagery- and blood-strewn performance from the MTV Video Music Awards as the pinnacle of her avant-garde weirdness. There are sunglasses covered in cigarettes, poisoned honey, Quentin Tarantino references galore, and a scene where Gaga wears nothing but caution tape. This last feature seems a little unnecessary since, when someone is only wearing tape, most people will already have realized that she should probably be handled with caution...
Jason is filled with the energy and ambition that Quentin lacks, but is equally self-destructive. He seems to be a different manifestation of the Compson family’s downfall—Jason’s satiric musings reveal his own frustrations and insecurities, but more importantly demonstrate that he is aware of how thoroughly dysfunctional his family is. The Compsons are trapped by their family’s history and heritage; Quentin commits suicide because, among other things, his sister Caddy has corrupted the family honor with her promiscuity. Humor is the vehicle that Jason uses to separate...
...Sound and the Fury” concerns the disintegration of the Compson family, a declining aristocratic Southern clan living on a once-prosperous plantation. The first three sections are written from the point of view of the three Compson brothers: the mentally retarded Benjy, the suicidal Harvard student Quentin, and the cruel and domineering Jason. When I first tried to read the novel in high school, I stopped midway through the third section from spiritual exhaustion. Only after reading the entire novel did the illuminating role of comedy became apparent...
...Quentin interact? We discussed the character as if we were reconstructing his past. Quentin doesn't work by instruction. He works by inspiration. He has an absolute unique talent of inspiring everyone around him to not only do their best but do things that are in his best interest. How does he do that? I think he has a secret magic wand or something...
What did you think about Quentin's script? You could teach a whole course on it. It comprises so many levels of everything. There's the literary, the poetic, the philosophical, the psychological, the historical, the anthropological. You could spread this script throughout all the departments of an Ivy League university and have legions of students work for years on it. Maybe I'm exaggerating. I might get carried away...