Today's quote comes from Steve Erickson, an American novelist, essayist, and film critic, based out of LA. His narritives often take place in Los Angeles as well and his most recent novel, Zeroville, was one of my favorites of last year. It follows Jerome, a slightly autistic, 24 year old architecture student (with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor tattooed on his shaved head) through 1970's Hollywood. The book depicts an almost supernatural effect of film, and meditates on the changing of the Hollywood guard during the period. I wholly recommend it.
And on to the quote:
"Each scene is in all times, Vikar tells himself, and all times are in each scene… The scenes of a movie can be shot out of sequence not because it’s more convenient, but because all the scenes of a movie are really happening at the same time…. Scenes reflect what hasn’t yet happened, scenes anticipate what already has happened. Scenes that have not yet happened, have."
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