Enter el cine. The Cinema. Black, then light. Colors. Projector emitting picture upon picture. Sound comes from nothing, yet surrounds everything.The lone man stumbles. Shadow, mist, crippled. Slowly enters. Approaches. Silent. The noise rises. Doom. Death. Is it bearing down upon you? He moves forward. Why crippled, big man? The Shadow Man exits. Darkness. Enter the war over stars. The tale unfolds. Once upon a time... War. Victory. Defeat. Death. The tale begins, then ends. Exit. Darkness. Boulders rest, brown upon brown. Suffering. Death. The sound, it contradicts. Scars. The past. The future? The unknown. Forward walking. Never stopping. Silence. The silent ones march. Darkness enters. Then white. Exit. Images, nothing of meaning, compact upon one another. Frames by the millions, the billions, some emit sound while others remain silent. The silent ones ushered the beginning, while the colorful noise continues forth. We watch yet for naught? We, the silent watchers, stare, absorb, and gather what? The markings persist when left. They linger, persist, diminish, impress. Dare deny the cinema its power? Crushed, defeated, the outspoken are silenced. The crowds continue. Pictures upon pictures. Produced, sold, repeated, viewed, silenced, heard, shuffled, forgotten, remembered. Lay the script bare. Behold. Exit el cine.
After a recent viewing of 'Double Indemnity' I couldn't help but notice the artistic characteristics inherent within the film and film noirs in general. Now, intrigued as I am with cinema as text and cinema in general, 'Double Indemnity' added to my understanding of what art can be, is, and will be. Cinema, in general, is a literal textual force unveiled through the projection of photos, again another form of text. In attempting to grasp what a text is, one must also understand what pictures are, and thus must understand what cinema is. Hence, the thematic structuring of this most recent post hinges upon the very theme of cinema on a structural premise, between viewer and text as conveyed by both sight and sound.
ReplyDeleteWhat I am taking away from your first blog post (and I could very easily be wrong), is that you are attempting to write in a way that almost personifies the act of watching a movie. Each word is its own sentence, and therefore its own image. As you piece through your writing, it is as if exhibiting a slide show, with each word holding a section of plot to be discovered by your reader. I found this to be a very interesting way of bringing your love for cinema into your writing, and I commend you for the ingenuity. This is definitely an authentic piece of work, however I feel as if there are a fe things you could do to improve it. For starters, I think you need more of a story line. There are no characters and there seems to be no plot outside of your writing-into-pictures technique. By using this method, I think you could create a really cool story, that it basically told by a set of interlaying words representing pictures. Should you create an entire story with the style you have developed, I feel it would get a lot of attention and positive criticism as it is simply a very original idea, one that hasn’t been replicated a million other times like most pieces of writing. That being said, I think you are off to a great start. The background is dark and melodic, and red and black really brings me into the cinema in which you write from. The picture you chose is also a great starting point for a story in which you could indugle should you decide to take my recommendation of a more character-based plot, but also does well to encompass the mystery man you describe in your first post. Great job on creating a very fresh piece of writing for your reader, now see exactly how far you can take this method you have created.
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