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Color Me Blood Red (in Honor of P. Cornwell)
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Color Me Blood Red (in Honor of P. Cornwell)
Author: Yazoo
Monday, 02 December 2002 - 10:28 pm |        | What words can describe a movie that is advertised not being shot in Living Technicolor but "Drenched in CRIMSON COLOR?"
In 1965, Herschell Lewis created (?) a film called Color Me Blood Red in which -- those of you who've guessed already get to watch this turkey, twice! -- a zany, obsessed painter finds that only real human (and, of course, female) blood mixed with his oils wins critical and audience acclaim.
Patricia Cornwell and Herschell Lewis, modern American fictional and cinematic legends.
This movie can't be believed, especially after you've seen it. It's no coincidence that red is also the emblematic color of embarassment, now is it? So I note this movie -- and the few facts I've shared about it -- to you all in P. Cornwell's dubious honor.
I think the movie's a so-called "cult classic." With any luck, "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed" will soon stand beside it.
Yaz
(who should stick to Owen Wilson movies and be done with the rest) |
Author: Howard Brown
Tuesday, 03 December 2002 - 04:33 pm | | | Dear Yaz.......Do you think that Mrs. Cornwell was possibly inspired by this flick? |
Author: Yazoo
Wednesday, 04 December 2002 - 08:29 am | | Hey Howard:
No, not as I take your meaning.
However, the idea of the Artist as both a creator and a destroyer is part of folklore and myth. I can't remember the specific names of painters, from the Renaissance on, who I've heard got so caught up in their inspiration that they didn't notice a cut or wound had dripped their own blood into their paints or on their frescoes or canvases, but I do remember hearing this bit of myth more often than I'd thought possible.
I think there is a great deal of synchronicity (collective unconscious = folklore, myth, black magic, etc.) at work in the JtR story. Cornwell has tapped one vein of that collective unconscious (pardon the pun). The idea of blood connected to Art is an older idea, I think, than its connection to JtR or even the Renaissance.
Yaz |
Author: Howard Brown
Wednesday, 04 December 2002 - 08:51 pm | | | Thanks a lot Yaz for your reply.........How |
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