Don, you may post at will, as far as I'm concerned (can't speak for
Paramount Pictures, but I'll let them worry about that).
Next time you watch it, you'll remember the question. I don't know if
anybody else has noticed, but I'm sure it refers back to some specific
dialogue earlier in the movie. There's something at the heart of the movie
that goes entirely unsaid, but must be reconstructed by viewers in the gap
between those dialogues.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Cunningham, Donald J. wrote:
> Pretty scary, Tony. That is exactly the scene I cite and that I have
> indexed on my video tape. That and the scene where he discovers that the
> "Italian" bike team cheats. Could you leave it up or let me post it on a
> server here (no real Hoosier would object)?
>
> Here again, the "irritation of doubt" promotes growth.
>
> Barbara Barrie often quotes Marx in the film so Paul Dooley was
> undoubtedly about to offer a pithy quote then thought better of
> it.......djc
>
> Don Cunningham
> Indiana University
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Whitson [mailto:twhitson@udel.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:13 PM
> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu; xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Capitalism Sucks - RE: Breaking away?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cole [mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com]
> Still in the realm of fiction, Don. Hoosier style?
> mike -----------
> -----------------
>
> maybe, Mike, but there can be much truth in fiction.
>
> Breaking Away is a great movie -- won Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
> It also contains the most succinct presentation I know of Marx's theory
> of
> alienation: ("Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by
> sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."
> Capital Vol. I Chapter Ten )
>
> In other words, the material conditions that limit the freedom of living
> workers are imposed by the appropriation past ("dead") labor, which, in
> the
> form of capital, dictates the conditions of employment for current
> ("living") labor.
>
> The scene takes place outside the IU's (limestone) library building.
> A PDF file slideshow of the scene can be downloaded from
> www.udel.edu/educ/whitson/files/BA2library.pdf
>
> Because of the file size [1.5 Meg] I will keep the file there only for
> the
> next two weeks.
>
> Bonus question for Don Cunningham (or anybody else who's seen this movie
> more than once):
>
> What did the father stop himself from telling the son (which would have
> completed the sentence that begins "Well, your mom ...") ?
>
> I never made this connection before, but it reminds me of
> Sennett's "Hidden Injuries of Class."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cunningham, Donald J. [mailto:cunningh@indiana.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:23 PM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Breaking away?
>
> http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800041061&cf=info&intl=us
>
> Don Cunningham
> Indiana University
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:22:51 -0500, Cunningham, Donald J.
> <cunningh@indiana.edu> wrote:
>> http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800041061&cf=info&intl=us
>>
>> Don Cunningham
>> Indiana University
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
NEWARK DE 19716
twhitson@udel.edu
_______________________________
"those who fail to reread
are obliged to read the same story everywhere"
-- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
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