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...than it would have had as a contemporary film in 1956. To place the resurrected “Lunatic” in the same category as, for example, a Tarantino film—whose director intentionally sets certain films in the past as a means of exploring certain generic tropes??indicates a troubling lack of comprehension of Kubrick’s place in cinematic history. Such a choice should serve as an ominous harbinger for anyone concerned with the integrity of the director’s work...
...books I write I usually smile and say “mixed salads.” In that I mean a good mixed salad has tomatoes, sliced onion, capers, lettuce...lots of different things, covered with a tasty dressing. In my work there are usually a variety of different tropes??a little fantasy, a little romance, some comedy, a few drops of scary—all whizzed together. A lettuce salad is boring. Better to have one with lots of different tastes and consistencies for the mouth and mind to play with. So too a book...
...people feeling like they have so much they want to prove and want to say and not enough time to say it and do it.” Some of his songs, such as “Joey is a Punk Rocker,” follow clichéd tropes??in this case, popular cheerleader falls for punk rocker. Others begin with the familiar, but end up far from the expected. One song begins with the age-old breakup excuse “It’s not you, it?...
...over soft strings and guitar strums, “Oh, I / don’t know why / love comes to me.”Is this most oblique of songwriters singing about the War in Iraq? But after that line, it’s back to his usual lyrical tropes??troubled narrators with no names, men loving women they’re doomed to lose, and the dark, satanic sky that lights all roads at midnight.But that opening line sticks with you. Something’s different.For one thing, this is the most instrumentally fleshed-out and gorgeous...
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