Kultfilme - Aus "Rough Guide to Cult Movies"
Kategorie: :: hgw am Dienstag, 06. Januar 2004, 14:12
print.google.com Online Excerpt aus "Rough Guide to Cult Movies" von Paul Simpson in der Reihe "Rough Guides"
Auszug aus dem Online Excerpt: "Rough Guide to Cult Movies" bei print.google.com:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines ‘cult’ as:
1) a system of religious worship especially as expressed in ritual
2) a devotion or homage to a person or thing 3) a popular fashion especially followed by a specific section of society4) denoting a person or thing popularised in this way.
The dictionary, in its linguistic wisdom, assigns the last definition to a cult figure or cult film. In cinematic terms, the word ‘cult’ has often been applied to films starring 50ft women on a mission of personal revenge, killer tomatoes, or an entire western town populated by midgets. Sometimes this has been extended to include movies that are either ‘so bad they're good’ (the clichéd example of this genre being any work by the ‘world's worst director’ Ed Wood) or are the objects of a quasi-religious worship (Star Wars).
The word ‘cult’ also implies some kind of secrecy, a knowledge hidden from the masses. So a cult film may be the preserve of a few (eg Where's Poppa?, the comedy where George Segal's brother, dressed in a gorilla costume, is implicated in the gang rape of a policeman in drag) or have depths missed by the casual viewer (while many of us have never wondered what was in Marsellus' case in Pulp Fiction, for others it is a celluloid Holy Grail).
Weitere Zitate in diesem Online-Auszug u.a. von Umberto Eco und über "Stanton's Law" - Harry Dean Stanton habe nie in anderen als (später als solchen anerkannten) Kultfilmen gespielt.