Re: interior monologue

From: Pablo Marin (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 15:04:21 PDT


Gene,
i think Fuller's Shock Corridor has plenty of that.

Pablo Marín.
Buenos Aires.

--- Ken Bawcom <email suppressed> wrote:

> I do understand the distinction you are making, but
> I think at times it
> can be a close call. In Kurosawa's "Dersu Uzala,"
> it's definitely
> voice-over narration, but in "Ikiru," I'd call it a
> genuine interior
> monologue. As you noted, film noir (I'm a big fan)
> is rife with both
> sides of the line. I would argue that films such as
> "Dark Passage," and
> "Lady In The Lake," where we don't even see the
> protagonist, but see
> through their eyes, are meant to be true interior
> monologue, and I
> accept them as such. There are at least a couple of
> noir films where
> the protagonist has lost their memory, and we get
> what I would call a
> true interior monologue. Sorry, their names elude me
> at the moment!
> It's been so long since I saw it that I can't be
> sure, but I think of
> Richard Lester's film "The Bed Sitting Room" as
> having interior
> monologue.
>
> Ken B.
>
>
> Quoting gyoungblood <email suppressed>:
>
> > I'm looking for examples in narrative cinema of
> real interior
> > monologues, as opposed to voice-over narration
> disguised as an
> > interior monologue, as in "Sunset Boulevard." A
> real interior
> > monologue is first-person present-tense speech in
> which the
> > protagonist talks to him or herself, not to the
> spectator. In other
> > words, subjective rather than objective speech.
> For example, the
> > protagonist might be lost and we hear him or her
> say "Where am I?" Or
> > they are drunk and say, "Wow, I drank too much!" I
> saw a great one
> > recently in an Anthony Mann noir (I think), where
> a single monologue
> > goes from objective to subjective and back to
> objective. But I can't
> > remember the title. I don't want to restrict this
> to story movies.
> > Experimental examples would be great as long as
> the monologue is
> > actually spoken. I have already thought of Kuchar.
> >
> >
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