PJ's tongue-in-cheek moments

[Bêthberry]

My dear Diamond,<P>I assure you: my face is straight even as a muscle or two twitches.<P>You are probably quite correct that Allen's <I>Bananas</I> is too campy to sustain direct allusion, particularly in its refusal to admit the true nature of despots. However, I believe it might be possible to perceive similarities between Legolas and Fielding Mellish, both of whom do come to find themselves in situations not of their initial intention.<P>The stronger parallel surely is Eisenstein's visionary, technical landmark, <I>Battleship Potemkin</I>. Not only do we have similarity of visual imagery in this echo of the famous "Odessa Stairs" scene, with the brutal assault of orcs in both films, but the kinetic editing of Eisenstein finds a parallel in PJ's disconcerting jumps, however short his scene. Another incontrovertible parallel is that both movies forego character development in favour of melodrama and ensemble narrative.<P><B>Estelyn</B>, replying to Diamond convinces me that PJ made it so.<P>Bethberry<p>[ January 07, 2003: Message edited by: Bethberry ]