tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post7484799702116194088..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Capote's The Duke in his Domain - Best Profile Ever Written [Part I]Curtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-87864408478197895932010-12-11T12:50:35.561-08:002010-12-11T12:50:35.561-08:00He was also a kind of fake Dionysian.
That was s...<i>He was also a kind of fake Dionysian.</i><br /><br /><br />That was sort of my point though Brando's hack acting still outdoes most Ho-wood product. Some college lit. type could write a dissertation on the 50s Julius Caesar movie (a rather intense work of literary Ahht, originally) itself, with the usual British maricones --Gielgud as Caesar??? Hah. Wrong--and goon Brando botching it, though they usually get the lines right. In that case both Dionysian and Apollyonian, contending, like dialectically! At least the shit happened.<br /><br /><br /> ....for the papally-inclined there are some odd aspects to Shakespeare's Caesar play, even if like moi you can't stand much PBS-Bard crapola. For one, Brutus...like his crony Cassius not in such a great place in ..the Inferno. Porque? History suggests Brutus may have been in the right--and hardly the limpwrist Mason portrays (tho...perhaps cool and cunning in a sense), with Caesar and his henchman Antonius (at least Brando got that right) as ...Il Duce-like despots. Or something like that.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-12211436241812188642010-12-10T21:52:38.810-08:002010-12-10T21:52:38.810-08:00what
and not hunter s thompson
are there any girl...what<br />and not hunter s thompson<br /><br />are there any girl dionysian writers?jhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-82741461371783592702010-12-10T16:57:04.594-08:002010-12-10T16:57:04.594-08:00He's moving but he never made me break out int...He's moving but he never made me break out into either mad laughter or desperate weeping. I would call that the Dionysian of Nietzsche, and I think that that is where the Beats tried to go, but only Corso got there.<br /><br />All the others tried to go there, but failed.<br /><br />The New Yorker went after the Apollonian. I didn't dislike the journal, but it was somewhat cold as opposed to passionate.<br /><br />Strangely Brando fits the journal. He was also a kind of fake Dionysian. Even in Last Tango he never really went wild. Even in Wild Ones, he wasn't wild.<br /><br />Corso and Codrescu are our two most thoroughly Dionysian writers.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-67913566215520802552010-12-09T22:01:06.723-08:002010-12-09T22:01:06.723-08:00STELLA!
In Cold Blood, the flick at least, still ...STELLA!<br /><br />In Cold Blood, the flick at least, still packs a punch--noir of a sort, though darker, weirder, in a sense Dash Hammett ramped the F up, as streetpunks might put it. TC's writing I don't really care for tho'. <br /><br />Brando a great, of course, though On the Waterfront was ...I suspect a conservative backlash against all the social realism of the 50s and ...Reds, even. It's a bit ...too much however classic. The Wild Ones pure Americana-beat-ness , like ...post WWII california-motorhead kicks, a bit freakier than Tennessee William neurotic soap operas (tho....TW not the worst hack who ever lived, but one twisted maricon) . The beginning of the counterculture, maybe. Lee Marvin also rocked. Ho-wood put the breaks on that sometime in the 60s. <br /><br />Brando was probably more Nietzschean nihilist than leftist. His portrayal of Kurtz in Apocalypse Now didn't quite do it. He was a great...thug, as Kowalski, Marc Antony, or the Waterfront pugilist, tho' not quite a Kurtz or Mephistopheles, IMHE.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.com