Is anyone else out there wondering just exactly what we’re supposed to read for Friday?  I have read Warshow 703-19 in FTC.  I’m not sure about the other guy though.  I thought Dr. C. said somethig like ‘Bowdy’, however all I could find was ‘Braudy’ and ‘Baudry.’

Listening to all the comments today in class, I realize that there is so much more going on in a film than I had ever realized.  I’m referring to the technical aspects of actually making the film, e.g. the juxtaposition of the Elvis archetype that we discussed with Sanjuro (sp?), the lighting effects in the […]

“Yojimbo reeks of cheesy, machismo in a way that suggests that men are just all brawn.  Kurasawa must have gone out and killed lots of big game and then shined his sword (phallus) afterward.  The film gushes with archetypes of virility such as weapons, killing and and boozing.  In fact, these things define Yojimbo (can’t remember […]

Working on the assumption that keys do double duty as  a phallus, then what’s the importance of a glass key?  A key’s function is to unlock something meant to be private, secret and reserved.  However, if a key is made of glass it could break into jagged shards and ruin the very thing it’s supposed […]