Les dejo aqui(link en el título) el review de Groucho de la película de Woody Allen. También una cita con la cuual coincido plenamente "there’s one of the most interesting love triangles I have seen outside of a porno movie"
Por cierto, ya tengo en mis mando el libro de H.Thompson "Fear and loathing in las vegas" y estoy muy contento pq además trae el artículo sobre el Kentucky Derby, que hice a Thompson muy famoso con su Gonzo Journalism.
Así que ya les contaré.
También leí el "Pulp" de Bukowski. Que diversión!! Es de los más menospreciados de sus libros, pero me pareció divertidísimo.
Les dejo un review de un lector (amazon).
"Written as he was fighting the illness that would kill him, this is Bukowski's farewell to his readers. As he said elsewhere of his hero Céline, "they ripped his guts out and he made them laugh". And this is what he proceeds to to in Pulp. Portraying himself as a blundering, idiotic detective, he pokes the ultimate fun at his own work as a writer. He hasn't even begun to solve any of the mysteries of life and yet he is about to die a meaningless death (in the allegory, the lease on his office is expiring), surrounded by even worse clowns and failures than he is. Personifications of his earlier selves are also there (the gambling addict mailman, see Post Office) and he resolutely thrashes them in the most poignant self-critique you'll ever find anywhere. Believe it or not, this book is a sublime act of bravery in the face of insurmountable odds "
Thursday, December 11, 2008
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
GONZO JOURNALISM
Como les decía en el post anterior, nunca he leído nada de Thompson. Pero aqui les dejo una definición de lo que es el Gonzo Journalism.
Por cierto, Thompson es el autor de Fear and Loathing in las Vegas. No he leído el libro, creo que lo voy a poner en mi lista.
También les dejo la definicón de la wiki.
Es interesante, pq propone todo lo que los demás periodistas tratan de no hacer. Es decir, ser completamente subjetivo en lugar de tratar de objetivizar los hechos. De hecho, incluye en ocasiones al narrador en la historia. Favorece el estilo sobre la veracidad de los hechos con tal de atrapar al lector. Me pregunto si el libro "A sangre fría" se puede considerar Gonzo. Se que es la primera Non Fiction Novel, eso si. Muy aterrador por cierto. La peli me parece muy, muy fiel al libro. Vale la pena si no se quieren aventar el tabicón.
Ahi les va:
The term "Gonzo Journalism" was coined by a friend of Thompson's, Bill Cardoso. It described an extremely subjective form of journalism where the journalist (and all his suspicions and opinions and prejudices) are an immediate part of the story. At its best, Thompson intended the writing to be in-the-moment, to set down on the page exactly what occurs, when it occurs. Needless to say, this is a difficult task, and his most famous work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was considered by him to be "a failed expiriment in Gonzo Journalism," as it was actually written after-the-fact (see this for an interesting, if flawed—for reasons just explained—dissection of Thompson's gonzo stylings).