In the cartoon world trees are thought to be “brown” with “green” leaves. Which is why so many cartoons have unsubtle pure brown and green trees — and blue skies. If you actually look at any trees, very few are actually “brown”. Again — the psychological danger of thinking of art in terms of the simple words we use to describe things. Words are crappy artists.
— John K, 9 May 2012
Despite the crisis in the creative fields in general, mass-distributed entertainment is in a boom cycle. (Movies, because they cost consumers less than most live entertainment, is typically counter-cyclical.)
— Scott Timberg, “No Sympathy for the Creative Class”, Salon, 22 Apr 2012
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Implied in every disaster movie is “starting over”, but starting over isn’t the consequence, but the premise: “In order to start over and do it right this time, we need a catastrophe.”
— The Last Psychiatrist, on Contagion
(gif by Uno Moralez)
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Her unceremonious ________ in Drive proves she’s game. Can’t think of anyone I’d rather see get Trierrified next … hmm hmm hmm hmm …… Halle Berry … Hermione Granger … Winslet … James Franco … !?
excerpt from interview w/ Lars von Trier by Chris Heath in GQ:
After working with Trier, Björk declared that she would never make another movie. “Fundamentally,” says Trier, “it was a problem that both of us, normally with things, we got it our way, where we decided as a dictator over a product. She was used to doing that and I was used to doing that…” Things started off badly. Trier says she was 24 hours late for their first meeting, explaining that she had just had to go at the last minute to a party on a Greek island via private jet as if there was no way someone wouldn’t understand that. “She said it with such pleasure—it was such a wonderful thing. And straightaway I said to her ‘Can’t you see why this will never work?’”
I was talking to a friend about it recently and I told him that the thing about making that film that upset me most was how cruel Lars is to the woman he is working with. Not that I can’t take it, because I’m pretty tough and completely capable of defending myself, but because my ideals of the ultimate creator were shattered. And my friend said, “What did you expect? All major directors are ‘sexist’, a maker is not necessarily an expert in human rights or female/male equality!”
My answer was that you can take quite sexist film directors like Woody Allen or Stanley Kubrick and still they are the one[s] that provide the soul to their movies. In Lars von Trier’s case it is not so and he knows it. He needs a female to provide his work soul. And he envies them and hates them for it. So he has to destroy them during the filming. And hide the evidence. What saves him as an artist, though, is that he is so painfully honest that even though he will manage to cover up his crime in the “real” world (he is a genius to set things up that everybody thinks it is just his female-actress-at-the-moment[’s] imagination, that she is just hysterical or pre-menstrual), his films become a documentation of this “soul-robbery”.
— Björk
JOSÉ DOLORES
Thank you. But anyway, sooner or later, they are going to kill me.
SOLDIER
Maybe not, General. Maybe they will let you live.
JOSÉ DOLORES
If they let me live, it means it is convenient for them. And if it’s convenient for them, it is convenient for me to die.
SOLDIER
Why?
JOSÉ DOLORES
Because the hunter lets the hawk live only when he wants a decoy or to hunt in his place. He is kept alive, but in a cage.
SOLDIER
But then, after a while, maybe they will free you.
JOSÉ DOLORES
No, little soldier, it doesn’t work like that, friend. If a man gives you freedom, it is not freedom. Freedom is something you — you alone — must take. Do you understand? Well, you will, one day, because you’ve already started to think about it.
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essence of tumblporn
Hepburn in 1958 w/ Pippin, prior to filming of Green Mansions
photograph by Bob Willoughby
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poster in Manila, where they’re selling the film as an Armageddon / Land Before Time mash-up
2011.06.23
photograph by Marie Jamora
we’re one, but we’re not th same, we get to marry each other, marry each other
