Re: RARA-AVIS: Cyberpunk Recomendation?

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 07 Oct 2005


In my neck of the woods, Kerry, nobody notices stuff like bi-racial (which is in a sense "post-racial" itself)-- the std. commentary is that KR is 1) a shitty actor--as in unable to convincingly play the persona he is supposed to be playing; 2) gorgeous enough so the first thing doesn't matter. Imagine Anna Nicole Smith playing Margaret Thatcher, in other words. Personally, I'd rather see the guy who plays Napoleon Dynamite as Arctor. Rob

--- "Kerry J. Schooley" < gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com> wrote:

> This is only tangentially related to HB/noir, but I
> don't quite understand
> why Keanu would be a mystery, aside from the usual
> fun of mocking movie
> stars. First, he is a star. It's not about the
> acting so much as assuming a
> persona that others create roles for. And aside from
> being tall and
> handsome etc. I think Reeves has this persona that
> suits the times, or at
> least present notions of what the future Everyman
> might be.
>
> He's bi-racial, which implies a future beyond race.
> The KKK horror of a
> mongrelized humanity, if you like, or a desire to
> transcend this particular
> issue. Certainly it's the age of frequent human
> displacement. Immigration
> challenges notions of the nation state. The other
> quality is detachment
> (and boy is he detached.) Roles call for him to be
> the character who is not
> a believer in anything until the overwhelmingly
> right cause comes along, or
> the guy who just does not connect to a larger
> collective society, or the
> spaced out teen (not much of that anymore, but once
> upon a time.)
>
> So, you cyberpunk fans, are these 2 things-
> detachment and a post-race
> based humanity (earthbound human races)
> characteristics of the written genre?
>
> Just thought I'd stir another pot,
> Kerry
>
> At 02:06 PM 07/10/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> >On 10/7/05, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> > >
> > > Tribe wrote:
> > >
> > > "Sure is. Directed by Richard Linklater. Here's
> a link to the trailer.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
< http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/a_scanner_darkly.html> http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/a_scanner_darkly.html
> > > "
> > >
> > > Thanks. But why Keanu?
> >
> >That, my friend, is a mystery way beyond my puny
> mortal understanding.
> >
> >Tribe
> >
> >
> >[Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> >
> >
> >
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