I wrote a new entry today while at work, but I need to polish it up a little more before I post it. So, in the meantime, here's a short writeup from Film 102 in Spring 2006 about William Eggleston's "Stranded in Canton" (a damn fine film, if you ask me.)
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William Eggleston and “Stranded in Canton”
The question posed for this week is a simple one: “What do you think could have been the intentions of Robert Gordon when choosing only about 1 hour of footage out of 70 hours?” I believe that Robert Gordon’s intentions during the editing process were exceedingly similar to William Eggleston’s intentions during the original filming of “Stranded in Canton.” It seems to me that Eggleston was intent on making a document of life in the south in the 1970s. By filming everyone and everything, from the dentist in the town to the chicken geeks on the street corner, Eggleston was able to create a vibrant, almost living document of the ways in which he perceived life as being. In his approach to editing Eggleston’s footage, Gordon had to have been thinking along similar lines, or else the work in question would not have had the same qualities. Also, remember that Gordon worked very closely with Eggleston during the editing process; from what I’ve learned of Eggleston, he would not have allowed someone to edit his footage unless they shared similar hopes, dreams, and desires in the end product.
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...Boy, has my writing improved since then. I credit my English instructor Dr. Peter Blewett and my Media Writing TA Tyler Gaskill for really improving my writing over the last year or so. Without those two, I'd still be really, really bad. Or, worse than I am, anyways.
**disappears off to watch "Snakes on a Plane" for the fifth time today.**
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