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Praxis-oscope: January 2008
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Examining how Film examines us. Wednesday, January 30, 2008. No Country for Old Men. No Man Above The Law. On his view, participation in the common good is purely accidental. His membership in the human order is as capricious as the flip of a coin. His name, in the Coen Brother’s film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel No Country for Old Men. The opening sequence of No Country. How can he even be himself? 8221; Chigurh’s. Resentiment is showing. She trumps his objection performatively. By...End w...
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Transnarrative Media « Scott Ellington's Blog
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Scott Ellington's Blog. Just another WordPress.com weblog. I’ve just spent an hour or two with. I selected the film from a load of badly-suggested movies that NetFlix figured I’d love (based on my enjoyment of Ken Burns’. 8212; a really odd extrapolation). I did. Love it, in spite of my expectations. (Have I even seen. I sure don’t remember liking it.). I loved the middle because stuff I never knew about Herbie Hancock’s interaction with Miles Davis got talked about; that Miles paid his collaborato...
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Iron Man « Scott Ellington's Blog
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Scott Ellington's Blog. Just another WordPress.com weblog. It’s the story of a guy who thinks shit up. That alone is a fabulous talent. Even more remarkable is his gift for finding ways to execute/realize the shit he thinks up. The ability to think it then translate it into a thing that actually works — that. He’s the second generation manifestation of that superpower. Now that’s downright Olympian-mythic! Hold on, that ain’t all. There’s nothing Tony Stark builds in the original movie that isnR...
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Maleficent « Scott Ellington's Blog
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Scott Ellington's Blog. Just another WordPress.com weblog. The Lion in Winter, Macbeth, Downton Babby, Little Big Man, Avatar, Prometheus, Robin Hood, Gandhi, Frozen,. Along with proliferating references to contemporary and eternal conflicts that absolutely belong. In a robust, socially-activating transnarrative environment that Hollywood probably isn’t yet ready for. Wuthering. Somewhere down the road there’s a vastly darker and far more satisfying version of this revised manifestly-unfairytale...
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My Oldest Posts « Scott Ellington's Blog
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Scott Ellington's Blog. Just another WordPress.com weblog. Column is a nifty feature, but it has an upper limit of 50 posts, so here are the 110 earlier blitherings. This is my third attempt at someting useful and legible:. Half in the Blog. Panic in The Golden Age of Television. Define A Point Day. Friday Night Lights End. Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Time, Money and Attention. And When the Sky Was Opened. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The Duchess of Duke Street. The Man in The White Suit. You are com...
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Big Hero 6 « Scott Ellington's Blog
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Scott Ellington's Blog. Just another WordPress.com weblog. The downside of this double-decker revenge tale is the crystal-clear manipulation of a purposefully underinformed audience. The upside is the overwhelming torrent of conspicuous intelligence (and skewy emotional [Disnoid] propaganda) that totally tips the balance in favor of a fascinating adventure in the future of storytelling. Bite a dirty, hairy bullitt and woman the fuck UP! Posted by Scott Ellington. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. 99%11 —...
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Possession and Duplicity « Scott Ellington's Blog
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Scott Ellington's Blog. Just another WordPress.com weblog. These are two contemporary films that pull in opposite directions:. Is the complex, convoluted love story of a couple of awful shits reduced (by choice) to finding themselves so entirely unloveable that the only other person capable of fashioning a life together with them is an utterly untrustworthy mirrorimage of the covert-operations scumball each of them has become. I disliked everybody in. Commentary radiates a very deliberate, oldschool aust...
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Define A Point Day « Scott Ellington's Blog
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Scott Ellington's Blog. Just another WordPress.com weblog. Define A Point Day. Mr Flynn had just asked his class of nine and ten year old Low Sixth-graders to define a point. Wanted to help my teacher prove to his educational hierarchy that our minds were NOT too immature to engage in the wonders he himself had lately found in the expansive mysteries of Euclidean geometry. The third attempt contained a subtle note of exasperated resignation, as though Leonard Flynn’s confidence in his rosy, private...
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Praxis-oscope: There Will Be Blood
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Examining how Film examines us. Wednesday, February 13, 2008. There Will Be Blood. Kingdoms, Christendoms and The Market. Loosely based on Upton Sinclair's book Oil! Call to mind most fervently the story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel of God. Having severed himself from his society, a man (whether Daniel or Jacob) struggles with a mighty force he has found in the desert. Both leave the encounter with a blessing. Both leave with a limp. Puts forward the businessman as the charlatan and huckster of a ne...
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Praxis-oscope: February 2008
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Examining how Film examines us. Wednesday, February 13, 2008. There Will Be Blood. Kingdoms, Christendoms and The Market. Loosely based on Upton Sinclair's book Oil! Call to mind most fervently the story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel of God. Having severed himself from his society, a man (whether Daniel or Jacob) struggles with a mighty force he has found in the desert. Both leave the encounter with a blessing. Both leave with a limp. Puts forward the businessman as the charlatan and huckster of a ne...
