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In Reply to: RE: Godard's "Contempt" -- widescreen jewel of the New Wave posted by clarkjohnsen on April 14, 2008 at 11:24:20
that took me to a new level in my exploration of cinema and my pursuit of Criterion releases.
I didn't see BB as petulant and high-maintenance. It seemed like it should have (or at least could have) been fairly easy (or at least simple) for her hubby to keep her happy. A little more communication (and acknowledgment of her) on his part and he'd have had a happy wife but then there would have been no story."You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
Follow Ups:
...hung in there when she was playing Baby Doll. "Do you like my legs?" "Do you like my nose?" "Do you like my elbows?" "Do you like my nails?" AAAARRRRGH!
High maintenance. I rest my case.
clark
out that he wasn't really seeing HER.
So she was mocking what he does see about her and turning it back on him.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
...you can't trust what any of the characters are saying or doing, as the director's matrix of meaning is superimposed on every movement and moment. "Civility is deliberately, intelligently perverted before our eyes, by the story, the players and the director, yet we go along with it all because the perverse truths revealed are so familiar."
clark
it doesn't stop you from feeling that she was petulant and high maintenance and it doesn't stop me from believing that she was simply trying to teach him a lesson about not objectifying her (which could be a double lesson... to the fictional husband and the real life producer who wanted her in the film and wanted her to show some skin).
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
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