ENGL 284 Lecture Notes - Silent Film, Counterpoint, Synecdoche
19 Nov 2012
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Patrick"s role in bringing outsiders into the centre through his attention. He was their alien: his willingness to try and talk, keep coming back week after week that makes a diff. Four women and a couple of men between them (113) Talking movies growing echoes pronounciations right : link between language and art: change in art, brining in language into film changed life, immigrants had a way to gain language. Patrick: being outside language is a kind of control. He"s a watcher, orders thing by telling story. Can name things as being important to himself by telling stories about them to himself: p133: watches each reversals . Creating offhand a counterpoint to musical theme (a diff theme in counterpoint to the main one) Scene is imbued with artistic connection, his way of being there is creative interpretive. Ceremony, culture; not having own tradition, he makes a story about it for himself, in relations to being near but not of it.
