The Cinematic
Imagination,
or
“Frida” meets
“Under the Volcano”
A scene from “Frida”
and a scene from the
Day of the Dead festival,
Cuernavaca, 10/30/04
Related material:
For the Man in Black
(Log 24, 9/13/03)
and
For a Man in Black
(Log 24, 11/17/05).
See also the utopia in Robert Graves’s novel, Watch the North Wind Rise— “New Crete, where the ritual murder of the Victim-King makes murder for less sacred ends seem unthinkable”– and the Log24 entry “Magical Thinking” of Pearl Harbor Day, 2005.
It’s that whole King Kong thing – – 18mil. on the first day.
“In discovering through the biographies that Frida was attracted to the movies, especially the horror and comic genres, I decided to use a trip to the movie house to see King Kong as a metaphorical way of expressing her experience with Diego in New York.”
Comment by BlueCollarGoddess — Friday, December 16, 2005 @ 12:06 pm