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Victor Khomenko

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In Reply to: No; only a filmmaker like Greenaway would be brave enough posted by grinagog on February 27, 2007 at 14:55:13:

I probably got about 20% of text, but I simply treated it as background music to interesting images.

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Re: I think that was only ever you, me and Peter Greenaway, Victor - grinagog 16:11:20 02/27/07 (4)
and agreed, the text is so impenetrable that I found myself just "switching off" and enjoy the scenery in this film
What might salvage this on DVD would be a choice of alternative narrative tracks; like Eubonics, Gangsta Rap, Noo Yawk + Noo Jawsey-eez, Cockney English rhyming slang and what the Scots call *talking shite * as per Trainspotting. Maybe even Beat generation slang as per Kerouac and Ginsberg
"Full fathoms five my father lies, his bones of coral made" could become:
Prospero, like gettin' in DOWN in the 'hood with all us chillens, aw reet ? Hoots Mon, see you down the Rubbidy Dub with the Trouble and Strife. Just TOO PHAT Ariel, you finger poppin' Daddy at five fathoms, tangerine flake kandy-coated coral
Shakespeare would approve
Grins
- LOL! BTW, what's up with him these days? - Victor Khomenko 16:29:44 02/27/07 (3)
  I mean - I can see some activity on imdb, but he seems to have disappeared, practically speaking. Last one I saw was Pillow Book. Did you see 8 1/2 Women? Worth a buck for rent?
  - Re: So Greenaway combined Fellinis 8 1/2 + City of Women? - grinagog 18:32:00 02/27/07 (2)
    now *that* I have to see!
    Err, no, I didn't like the Pillow Book at all and thought he'd *lost it* so haven't bothered with 8 1/2 Women
    If you take the plunge please post your opinion!
    Grins
    - Added to the queue... my wife hates him, so I guess a few nights on a couch are in order - Victor Khomenko 20:03:46 02/27/07 (1)
      Will be a while before I get to it, though.
      I think he simply lost track of what he wanted to do. He started as a painter, and it seems movies have been his secondary love. He brought beautiful art to some of them, but perhaps never understood that films needed few other things to become a whole.
      The Pillow Book was his low point, I hope.
      - Greenaway has the heart and soul of an Artist - grinagog 02:03:25 02/28/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Added to the queue... my wife hates him, so I guess a few nights on a couch are in order posted by Victor Khomenko on February 27, 2007 at 20:03:46:
        
        so that could take him in any direction
        Mao was a poet; Hitler painted watercolors
        Josef Stalin had his train set ( or so I hear )
        Grins

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