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June 06, 2008
48 Hr Diaries - Pt 3
We're up to the third week of Larry Gross' 48 Hr Diaries... here's a conversation between Gross and Walter Hill...
"What you and your pathetic European intellectual friends who make films don't realize," he was saying today, "is that you have to put motion into these movies."
"These Europeans you disdain, or who you, in fact, are only pretending to disdain for the purposes of this conversation, know this," I reply. "There's tons of motion in the frame in say, an Antonioni movies."
"Antonioni makes dull movies."
"Not his good ones" I respond.
"I do remember being impressed with the soundtrack on that one where they went to the island. That one shot I remember of the helicopter landing, he made that sound just awesome."
"Antonioni’s good movies, like the one you just mentioned, L'avventura, are just like yours," I started to say, “Minimal and architectural , not relying on dialogue...” But then I kept my mouth shut... I didn't want to get theoretical.... this opinion would stun Walter when I offered it and I knew why it sunned him. He operates purely from his conscious ambitions, and think they were vastly opposed to his European peers. He was not wrong to say he's different. The fact that some of their tactics and effects do, in fact, coincide is not, of course, disproved by this, though I can wholly understanding his finding that fact being pointed out or proven to him to be distasteful. To him it would mean being tarred with the unwanted brush of being uncommercial...and the truth is that whatever else Walter is or is not, he is not uncommercial.
Posted by dpoland at June 6, 2008 11:51 AM
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Isn't that one of Don Simpson's '90s post-plastic surgery head shots? You should've found a photo from his high school reunion where he arrived via chopper, stepped out with a Penthouse Pet on each arm, said hello to everybody, then got right back in the chopper and took off.
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at June 6, 2008 12:05 PM
I'm loving these, but I wish whoever's transcribing them would clean them up a little as they go. Seems like this one had more editing glitches and punctuation problems than the others.
Posted by: yancyskancy at June 6, 2008 04:09 PM
We are trying to preserve Larry's diary style. It is rather eclectic.
There has been some "cleaning up"... more than a little... of basic stuff. But when there is something I find odd, but I think I can guess at, I tend to leave it and let you do the work.
Posted by: David Poland at June 6, 2008 05:19 PM
definitely digging these, particularly for the historical perspective of getting a real sense of time and place. would be interesting in seeing more stuff like this on the site.
Posted by: Armin Tamzarian at June 9, 2008 11:27 AM
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