I had a stray thought recently about Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 noir Laura (1944), based on Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel of the same name. The film’s first half revolves around the murder of the title character, although of course it’s more complicated than that. And I’d like to argue that it’s slightly more complicated than [...]
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Schrödinger’s Laura
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, David Lynch, Dorothy Adams, Gene Tierney, Inception, Judith Anderson, Laura, Lost, mnemonics, narrative, Otto Preminger, plot, Roger Ebert, Schrödinger's cat, Twin Peaks, Vera Caspary, Vincent Price, X-Men on December 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
At the Sound of the Tone…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged plot, tone on November 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
What do you remember from things you’ve read? Oftentimes, I find that as little as a week or two after I read something, all I’m left with is the tone of a piece of writing, or the general feeling it called out in me while I was reading it. I’m a pretty slow reader, not [...]
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