La Terza Madre (little blinks and links)

[salimondo]

"The most beautiful thriller and horror films were made by adult directors for an adult audience. Adolescents and kids did see these films, but they were not made for children. So to make a good film you have to commit seriously to the work itself, without thinking of the existence of an adolescent public, without giving them all the little blinks

Comments

[ayrkain]

Thanks. That's good advice. What's a good example of the balance between an endless regression of self-defining dictionaries and winks to your intended audience in the way of outside source material?

For Ever Mozart

[salimondo]

It's an interesting question. Shakespeare still has a lot to teach just about anyone. I've been re-reading Swift and will probably indulge in Cyrano de Bergerac again after that. Maybe Melville after that?

T.S. Eliot can be winky but still delivers a lot of force. Dubliners. Rilke. Cervantes. Von Eschenbach. Goethe. These are daunting names for some people and boring for others, in both cases because I think they operate on a certain scale that works against typical fan relationships with the text. They've lasted. They're the elephants in the room. And I think it's interesting that it's so hard to breed elephants these days. (An elephant never forgets