Re:Sartre and Borges on Orson Welles
by AnimalMuppet on Friday May 01, 2015 @04:09PM
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Remember that Sartre was an existentialist. He therefore defines cinema to be an existentialist thing, and then criticizes Kane for not fitting into Sartre's definition.
But to paraphrase Shakespeare: "There are more things in cinema, O Sartre, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Welles' F for Fake is practically a treatise on phenomenology, and it's nearly all in the present tense.
as per the xkcd.. interestingly someone at the top of the chess game agreed with cueball:
"Kane might have been interesting for the Americans, [but] it is completely passé for us, because the whole film is based on a misconception of what cinema is all about."
What does that even mean, assuming "us" means the French and not film connoisseurs anywhere in the world? Note that Truffaut, who was himself heavily influenced by Hitchock, later heavily criticizes general tendencies of French film of this era in a famous essay on (PDF: https://soma.sbcc.edu/users/davega/FILMST_113/Filmst113_ExFi...)
This xkcd strip seemed to be relevant in this case: https://xkcd.com/1112/