From: Adam Hyman (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 08:35:33 PST
I think it was called "Twenty dollars"
But that also reminds me that there was a film and/or TV series following a
gun. Has that come up yet? And I don't remember the title of it.
On 1/12/09 11:57 PM, "Ken Bawcom" <email suppressed> wrote:
> There is some daisy chaining in "Tampopo."
>
> There is a B&W Hollywood film from the 30s that follows a suit coat,
> or maybe it's a tux. Can't remember, it's been a long time since I saw
> it.
>
> Also, isn't there a film about a dollar, or maybe $20 bill, being
> passed around, made in the 80s, or late 90s? I never saw it, but it
> was on cable a lot a few years back.
>
> Ken B.
>
>
>
> Quoting James Cole <email suppressed>:
>
>> The most obvious example in literature probably being Delillo's Underworld,
>> which follows the (in reality lost) "Shot Heard Round the World" homerun
>> ball for about 60 years and sort of adheres to David's shit-happens
>> unpredictablity of the urban experience explination.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM, David Tetzlaff <email suppressed> wrote:
>>
>>> Physical passing of people walking became a common transition device in
>>> 'ensemble' television dramas set in institutional contexts, starting with
>>> 'Hill Street Blues' and continuing through 'St. Elsewhere' and 'ER'.
>>> Multiple, parallel plot lines connect and switch without edits: the camera
>>> follows two characters walking down the hall, one drops a narratively
>>> unimportant clipboard off at a desk, the camera stays with the clipboard,
>>> another character picks it up, the camera follows him into another room
>>> where he interrupts a superior to ask a seemingly innocuous question. He
>>> leaves and the camera stays with the superior, who we realize in the midst
>>> of some crisis or other...
>>>
>>> I would say that this is generally a trope of the random-ness and
>>> 'shit-happens' unpredictability of the urban experience of what the
>>> Ehrenreichs refer to as the 'PMC' (professional-managerial class), but
>>> certainly could be used in other thematics...
>>>
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>
>
> "Those who would give up essential liberty
> to purchase a little temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty, nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin 1775
>
> "I know that the hypnotized never lie... Do ya?"
> Pete Townshend 1971
>
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