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]]> By: alsolikelife http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/2007/07/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-the-adaptation-1989-eric-zala/comment-page-1/#comment-3459 alsolikelife Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:19:19 +0000 http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/?p=172#comment-3459 I can relate to what you're saying, though I don't agree. The on-screen results of this mimesis make evident just how much homegrown, low-budget ingenuity was involved in its realization. And sometimes the simplified versions of Spielberg's scenarios have an unexpected elegance to them, such as the very basic special effects used to re-enact the climactic opening of the ark. For this viewer, there was enough of a distance to stimulate reflection on the aesthetic qualities of the original, which as I wrote really gained after re-screening. Dave Kehr wrote back in 1981: "Spielberg, who directed, knows a lot about action cutting but nothing about narrative rhythm: this 1981 film travels fast and straight down a linear plot, and the ceaseless rush quickly becomes monotonous." I find this an amazing glimpse at where mainstream narrative cinema was 25 years ago; compared to today's films, RAIDERS to be lucid in its exposition and expertly paced, at least for my biorhythm (which, no doubt was influenced by watching RAIDERS as a child...) Incidentally this kind of relates to CEDDO, which I just saw, and how Sembene takes African American gospel music and holds it to scrutiny in a way that's very unique to how sound is conventionally used in movies. He makes you reflect on how this beautiful, one-of-a-kind music was a product of the colonizalization of Africans to promote a Western religious ideology in a Western tongue. My overall point being that it's not so cut-and-dry to write off such works of cultural production as complicit to their own subjugation to dominant forces.... I can relate to what you’re saying, though I don’t agree. The on-screen results of this mimesis make evident just how much homegrown, low-budget ingenuity was involved in its realization. And sometimes the simplified versions of Spielberg’s scenarios have an unexpected elegance to them, such as the very basic special effects used to re-enact the climactic opening of the ark. For this viewer, there was enough of a distance to stimulate reflection on the aesthetic qualities of the original, which as I wrote really gained after re-screening. Dave Kehr wrote back in 1981: “Spielberg, who directed, knows a lot about action cutting but nothing about narrative rhythm: this 1981 film travels fast and straight down a linear plot, and the ceaseless rush quickly becomes monotonous.” I find this an amazing glimpse at where mainstream narrative cinema was 25 years ago; compared to today’s films, RAIDERS to be lucid in its exposition and expertly paced, at least for my biorhythm (which, no doubt was influenced by watching RAIDERS as a child…)

Incidentally this kind of relates to CEDDO, which I just saw, and how Sembene takes African American gospel music and holds it to scrutiny in a way that’s very unique to how sound is conventionally used in movies. He makes you reflect on how this beautiful, one-of-a-kind music was a product of the colonizalization of Africans to promote a Western religious ideology in a Western tongue.

My overall point being that it’s not so cut-and-dry to write off such works of cultural production as complicit to their own subjugation to dominant forces….

]]> By: jeffmcm http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/2007/07/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-the-adaptation-1989-eric-zala/comment-page-1/#comment-3387 jeffmcm Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:02:06 +0000 http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/?p=172#comment-3387 I really think this video is sad. It represents the final colonization of our minds by Hollywood; these kids didn't create something new or even recombine different elements for a synthesis. Instead, they slavishly worked towards a shot-for-shot imitation. There's no creativity in this, just regurgitation, and they spend untold hours of their lives and years to do it. I really think this video is sad. It represents the final colonization of our minds by Hollywood; these kids didn’t create something new or even recombine different elements for a synthesis. Instead, they slavishly worked towards a shot-for-shot imitation. There’s no creativity in this, just regurgitation, and they spend untold hours of their lives and years to do it.

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