Have you read Understanding Comics (http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0878162437-14)? At one point, Scott McCloud does something similar in comic-book form, leading you into a (visually) blank space of (illustrated) sound effects... you can't help but create closure.
BTW, here's what I read into it: "I held the world at arm's length for a long time (red, red, red, red), until I let someone in (green); they left me sad (blue), and now I'm closed off again (red)."
With a soundtrack by Philip Glass, I'd wager. He'd spin wheels within wheels, with cruelly repetitious leitmotifs for "red" and "green" -- and a shocking break in the pattern for "blue."
Reminds me of that movie America's Sweethearts. The director sends the first reel of his movie after promising it forever. And it's the title of the movie. That's it. He says on the phone "Do you like it? I could also do it in blue"
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Date: 2004-03-02 12:34 pm (UTC)Colorful writing...
Date: 2004-03-02 01:03 pm (UTC)Z
P.S.: What's this mean to you?
Re: Colorful writing...
Date: 2004-03-02 03:18 pm (UTC)Seriously? I used it as an example of how easily narrative is imposed on text in a discussion last night.
Re: Colorful writing...
Date: 2004-03-02 04:14 pm (UTC)Z
P.S.: Look at all your would-be cinematic agents, popping out of
the woodwork! I remember your work from *before* it went
Hollywood... ;->
Re: Colorful writing...
Date: 2004-03-02 10:47 pm (UTC)BTW, here's what I read into it: "I held the world at arm's length for a long time (red, red, red, red), until I let someone in (green); they left me sad (blue), and now I'm closed off again (red)."
Re: Colorful writing...
Date: 2004-03-02 10:53 pm (UTC)I love your interpretation, too.
Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture...
Date: 2004-03-02 01:23 pm (UTC)You'll be amazed how much passion Marlon Brando can put into the first "Red", or how sultry Madonna looks when she says...."Green."
Not to mention the heartfelt cry of "Red!" after 70 minutes of tough, gritty defence goes a little too far in the Hometown FC Vs. Evil Megateam match.
A movie for the ages.
Re: Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture...
Date: 2004-03-02 02:46 pm (UTC)Re: Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture...
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