ginger griffin, Jameson

Long quote, "The word 'remake' is, however, anachronistic to the degree to which our awareness of the pre-existence of other versions, previous films of the novel as well as the novel itself, is now a constitutive and essential part of the film's structure: we are now, in other words, in 'intertextuality' as a deliberate, built-in feature of the aesthetic effect, and as the operator of a new connotation of 'pastness' and pseudo-historical depth, in which the history of aesthetic styles displaces 'real' history." (495)

I would like to relate this quote to Macherey when he states, "To know the work, we must move outside it." (20) In order to understand a film that came from somewhere else, you must first know where it came from. Did it come from an idea, did it come from a book, or another movie, maybe a television show. Where ever it came from, you must be able to suspend your disbelief and realize that what you are viewing might be written differently and maybe not meant to be viewed in such the way that you might be viewing it. You can not write something without adding in your own personal viewpoints and style because you will be doing it sub-consciously. We do this with everything we read or write, we add what we know and what we have learned. I relate that to another quote from Macherey, 'Are there books which say what they mean... Without depending directly on other books?" (16) It is impossible and the interdependence and relating it to something else will always happen. The subsection called, "The Nostalgia Mode", was very interesting for me because it talked about "remakes" and how basically there are only remakes out there. Nothing is an original anymore and like HorkHeimer and Adorno, "culture today is infecting everything with sameness." (41) Originality no longer exists, the only thing left to ponder is what will they think of next?