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been going down a rabbit hole of increasingly unhinged “the shining” essays where men attribute divine characteristics to kubrick and position themselves as the clergy, enlightened and motivated by the assumption that everything that flickers in their mind while watching the movie was delicately placed there by the celluloid deity.
the one that caused me to write this one was one where the author suggest that the only way to Truly Grasp the shining is to simultaneously play the film forwards and backwards, overlaid on top of each other, while putting on Abbey Road as the soundtrack and letting it loop three times to fill the runtime, except for the track “Her Majesty” which obviously has to be skipped every loop. (not a joke)
all of these guys are operating under a hyper-patriarchal understanding of auteur theory, sometimes admittedly, sometimes unwittingly, but it’s always the base set of assumptions that a) the director is the creative engine of a film and b) kubrick was so smart that he requires exegetical texts to be understood by the rabble.
oh yeah those kubrick guys get real fuckin wacky with it. i don't know if we should just let their misunderstanding of auteur theory become the dominant one, though. especially nowadays, i think truffault's central thesis of "directors should be major creative agents and not just passively trying to precisely adapt what they're given by the studio/screenwriter/whoever" is really relevant. you look at comic book guys being continuity nerds, films made entirely by studio mandate, 90% of them by-the-books adaptations of other things, it's hard not to get what truffault was going for. hell, even within comic book movies, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy has far more of his creative footprint in it than his Doctor Strange.
I totally agree with that… Sam Raimi my beloved. What I witnessed was more so the brainworms reading of auteur theory rather than brainworm larvae in auteur theory.
it is to auteur theory what Game Theory is to game theory
the irony? "The Shining" isn't that good a movie ~Chara
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