Re: interior monologue

From: Ken Bawcom (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 15:11:39 PDT


If a non-human interior monologue will do, the smart bomb in "Dark
Star" does have a dialog with the humans, but then, in what is clearly
an interior monologue, invents philosophy for itself.

Ken B.

Quoting Pip Chodorov <email suppressed>:

> A less obvious example: Would you count HAL in 2001? His voice is
> disembodied without being extradiegetic. His whole "I'm afraid" - "my
> mind is going" - "daisy daisy" death scene is an interior monologue
> of a character who simply has no mouth. Granted he is talking to
> Dave; but he is soon ranting and babbling to himself. I consider this
> film experimental - the opening and closing half-hour have no
> dialogue and much of it is abstract.
> -Pip
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