January 2010
3 posts
It’s spoons for us. But with a difference. This is a thoroughly modern house, with traditional gender roles turned on their heads. I clean and cook, she farts. It’s the same with sleeping. She is (Dr) Spooner, I am (DJ) Spoonee. A big shout out to the bedroom massive, I say. Teep slight, she replies, before wrapping herself around me, from behind.
There’s a problem, though; we...
Perhaps it was the sheer ordinariness of Ozu’s people, rather than their “Japaneseness”, that Japanese producers feared would put foreign audiences off. Surely, foreigners preferred to see more exotic creatures, rushing about with drawn swords, wearing colourful kimonos. In fact, Ozu’s characters, unlike people in mediocre soaps, are never just ordinary. They are...
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger...