.hustlers grab your guns.
.your shadow weighs a ton.
.driving down the 101.
.california here we come.
.your shadow weighs a ton.
.driving down the 101.
.california here we come.
the scene opens...two shadowy figures creep through the night. they come upon a car, parked on the street. In 60 seconds .a much better movie about stealing cars. glass breaks, tires screech, sirens blare, and the car finds its way into an electrical box...all this excitement topped with a smattering of 'bitch' here and there...welcome to the OC...........bitch. xP
c'mon now...we all know that's not the REAL o.c. .as that excruciating 1/2 hour of laguna beach proved. the party ryan and seth step into isn't even close to the real o.c. .once again, thank you l.c. and stephen for the insight into real o.c. parties--boring unless kristin is there to dog on everyone. but the show does expose a facet of suburban life that appeals to audiences precisely because it is a facet that isn't common, that isn't seen, only heard of.
it's all the urban legends that 'teen movies' are made of.....i'm from here, you're from there......my asshole/bitch other is in the way......massive parties riddled with drugs, sex, rock&roll...and of course .my favorite part because i've known my fair share of em. gangstuh white boys and the token black guy...
from the writing standpoint, it's all the same old stories...the only difference is that now they've been repackaged into tanned beach bodies and given loads of money. .sounds to me like a studio formula for success! $cha-ching!$. i don't see anything remotely creative about the o.c. even the show makes fun of its own 'trend' status and the fact that it could be about kids anywhere...summer religiously watches 'the valley'. .yeah, why couldn't it have been 'the valley'? we're WAY more trouble that those o.c. kids! oh, the stories i could tell.
but i will give the fox people some credit...maybe they hired disney's thinktank to develop a show that taps into a dormant, diabolical addiction that makes you fiend for mindless chatter and ugly clothes whenever you hear that song....
c'mon now...we all know that's not the REAL o.c. .as that excruciating 1/2 hour of laguna beach proved. the party ryan and seth step into isn't even close to the real o.c. .once again, thank you l.c. and stephen for the insight into real o.c. parties--boring unless kristin is there to dog on everyone. but the show does expose a facet of suburban life that appeals to audiences precisely because it is a facet that isn't common, that isn't seen, only heard of.
it's all the urban legends that 'teen movies' are made of.....i'm from here, you're from there......my asshole/bitch other is in the way......massive parties riddled with drugs, sex, rock&roll...and of course .my favorite part because i've known my fair share of em. gangstuh white boys and the token black guy...
from the writing standpoint, it's all the same old stories...the only difference is that now they've been repackaged into tanned beach bodies and given loads of money. .sounds to me like a studio formula for success! $cha-ching!$. i don't see anything remotely creative about the o.c. even the show makes fun of its own 'trend' status and the fact that it could be about kids anywhere...summer religiously watches 'the valley'. .yeah, why couldn't it have been 'the valley'? we're WAY more trouble that those o.c. kids! oh, the stories i could tell.
but i will give the fox people some credit...maybe they hired disney's thinktank to develop a show that taps into a dormant, diabolical addiction that makes you fiend for mindless chatter and ugly clothes whenever you hear that song....
i also think it's funny how these kids are in high school, but they dress like those swanky young professionals on other shows like desperate housewives. .this is the only o.c. fact proved correct by l.c. and the gang on l.b...ooh, so many initials. maybe i'll start calling myself p.i. 3-to-the-point-1-4!!. time always seems to work funny on t.v. ...
*insert witty segue into blog part 2 here*
tropic of orange sorta reads like a t.v. show in that 'time' aspect of things. the days and chapter divisions are really episodic, like scenes. and i think yamashita does a beautiful job with different concepts of time...each character seems to have a completely different experience of time that is heightened by their spatial arrangements. where 'space' overlaps, these different tracks of time come into conflict, and it's really cool to see how yamashita does this in writing, showing the contrast without the aide of picture/film. .but then again, i've always liked reading cause it's like a movie in your head. it's a characteristic of l.a. that i really see everyday--everyone living at a different pace, boundaries spilling into one another.....damn, i love my city.
*insert witty segue into blog part 2 here*
tropic of orange sorta reads like a t.v. show in that 'time' aspect of things. the days and chapter divisions are really episodic, like scenes. and i think yamashita does a beautiful job with different concepts of time...each character seems to have a completely different experience of time that is heightened by their spatial arrangements. where 'space' overlaps, these different tracks of time come into conflict, and it's really cool to see how yamashita does this in writing, showing the contrast without the aide of picture/film. .but then again, i've always liked reading cause it's like a movie in your head. it's a characteristic of l.a. that i really see everyday--everyone living at a different pace, boundaries spilling into one another.....damn, i love my city.
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I too find there's a cinematic quality to Yamashita's novel. I've always been tempted to figure out a "screen treatment" given the latest Hollywood trend for "thinkpieces" with intersecting "multicultural" narratives.
As for The OC/The Valley--I'd love to get my hands on some of the clips they used for Summer's screenings of "The Valley" on the show. Maybe life should imitate art and Josh Schwartz can become the regional tv muse.
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