Re: Tarantino and J.D. Salinger
Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:51:40 -0700
Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
> Why is what Tarantino does any different to what Warhol did? Both took
> pre-existing things and recontextualised them to give them a different
> meaning - it doesn't matter whether it was a picture of Marilyn Monroe or a
> *film* by Marilyn Monroe, it's still the same thing. It's a new way of
> following the Eisenstein concept of montage (that is, things only gain
> meaning when juxtaposed with other things - therefore a hand knocking on a
> door, a woman screaming and a shot of a graveyard make a narrative, while
> the three images separately do not) - except the montage is formed from
> pre-existing materials. 'm not fawning towards either man, although I
> admire their work enormously. I'm sure they are/were both prize assholes in
> real life
>
> Anyway what has all this got to do with Salinger ??? (:
It's obviously a very sensitive issue with Salinger if his lawyers sent letters
to make sure that something as non-profiteering (not to mention innocuous (to
some, perhaps)) as the Holden Caulfield random quote generator was taken off
the original JDS homepage under legal threat. So JDS would be considered a poor
sport?