Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Peter H-son (A) on December 02, 2007 at 04:59:57

In Reply to: RE: About "not getting it" posted by halfnote on November 29, 2007 at 21:34:04

I don't feel one way or the other about Tarantino. As you say, he is a product of his time.

It's his navel-gazing followers I do not like. Brats who compete in who can throw around the most pop culture trivia. "Ain't that Gordon Lau guy cool?" You are even cooler if you refer to him as Lau Ka-fai. The leader of the Tarantino pack will add that his Mandarin name is Liu Chia-hui and that it's how he is credited in his Shaw Bros pictures.

It's Jean-François Lyotard who identified this eclectic or junk postmodernism. The Appignanesi quote comes from his book, Introducing Postmodernism. A book I recommend to everybody.