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Well, in paiting, if you do something quite derivative of another artist, you title the painting, "Homage a' >______". I've done a number of these based on works by Haitian artists that were destroyed in the earthquake, just for my personal collection. You let people know, "This is based on work by…." And if it's a copy, you have to make that very clear. So I think you're right to be critical, if she has been making homages without attribution.
-Marla
I hate to be a film nerd but … the problems with the Gus version are primarily aesthetic. The choice of colour as opposed to black-and-white, the patterned shower curtain (it's distracting from what appears through the door rather than obscuring), and the unnecessary masturbation when peering through the peephole – these are just the "crimes" I remember. It's a failure because it's imaginatively weak. Whereas the Coen brothers' "True Grit" imagines the language of the original novel (which is sadly lacking from the John Wayne version) into a cinematic equivalent. Perhaps, in the endless re-figuring and re-mixing and dubbing that is 21C culture, all we have left is a sense of authenticity to replace the chimera of originality.
I think I posted a (now lost) comment somewhere about the evocative scent of Badedas, which was the height of bathtime sophistication and luxury in the pre-Molton Brown days when I was growing up. Do you suppose Things Happen when you apply Craft….?
Sharp, the one that smells like Divin'Enfant, doesn't sound like my kind of thing. "Cold tobacco and marshmallow accord" was never going to be the most felicitous of note combinations.
Marla, Maack has been very open about the fact that she's not the nose behind the perfumes; she simply commissioned a French perfume house to create some fragrances for her. So I wonder if she's even aware of the similarities with ELDO et al.
Richard, please don't hate being a film nerd. Some of my favourite people are film nerds.
And yes, you're absolutely right, there are numerous problems in Van Sant's version. I seem to recall a pointless montage in the first murder scene.
The Maack scents don't bring anything interesting or wortwhile to perfumery, in the same way that the Psycho remake was a fairly pointless exercise.
Vanessa, I can think of one thing that might happen when you apply Craft. You might make a beeline for your nearest Sainsbury's and buy some Badedas!