Yes I know it's GC but....
....after watching Kill Bill on the BBC last night It needed another posting. At least Tarantino has always been open to the fact that he is influenced by other flicks.
(, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 16:45, Reply)
Wasn't Kill Bill paying homage to the Hong Kong movies part of the point?
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NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 17:21,
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This idea that 'everything is a remix' has been around for ages
Does annoy me this guy has basically coined that phrase and passed it off as his own thinking.
I think in academia they call in structuralism, no? Joseph Campbell, Propp, Levis Straus, Barthes... it's basic undergrad literary theory.
(, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 17:53, Reply)
I think the guy came up with an easy to understand metaphor
But the metaphor ain't new.
Daniel Coffeen, who taught rhetoric at UC Berkeley, often talks about everything being a remix. And as Beck sang, we all have two turntables and a microphone. His old lectures are available as podcasts.
And, things like Star Wars and Kill Bill are easy examples because they were intentionally copying.
(, Sun 16 Dec 2012, 20:19, Reply)