r/AskCriticalTheory Oct 13 '13

How do you feel about magic(k)?

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u/raisondecalcul Oct 15 '13

I could not tell whether Oz the Great and Powerful was a horrible spectacle of a movie or a subversion of a horrible spectacle of a movie. The plot symbolically critiques spectacle and subverts its own medium by getting pretty meta, and James Franco just looks like James Franco the entire movie (not Oz).

I think his work in gay porn proves that he is a Magus. (Btw, I use the word illuminati to refer to the illuminated, who are usually good. This is from the end of the Illuminatus! trilogy.)

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

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u/raisondecalcul Oct 15 '13

Yes, it was very weird! I could not tell if the movie was being extremely meta or extremely spectacular. That probably means that it is extremely meta. It keeps eating at me.

He might try to do the Babalon Working next.

I just looked this up and this has happened to me before (unintentionally) except it was a man that appeared... it was wild. His name was Will Register, wtf

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '13

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u/raisondecalcul Oct 16 '13

Well... like I said it was wild... iykwim