Monday, January 4, 2016

A Dream of Conspiracy




the problem with me mi mi you is that I notice things you you mi such as In the 1947 film Driftwood directed by Allan Dwan there is no large body of water in which driftwood might float unless it be the sky and the driftwood be the Collie dog that Natalie Wood's character "Jenny" finds near the wreckage after it crashes. A tag on the dog's neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where its blood will be used for spotted fever vaccine. The film also contains a performance from Ruth Warrick who got her start from Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, a film which ends with the denouement of a cryptic memory of the sled named Rosebud. Natalie Wood herself seems to be the only 'wood' in driftwood, and the irony of this is made poignant when compared to the narrative of her death later in life. The film could easily have been called 'Tumbleweed' as Walter Brennan's character and Wood's live in a tumble down old ghost town where actual tumbleweeds roll. In one scene Walter Brennan says: That's Life. Strangely, the Italian poster art for the film mines echoes of the iconography of Little Red Riding Hood standing the beloved Collie dog in for the Big Bad Wolf, tho this comparison is distinctly at odds with the content of the film, and yet the notions of drifting and devouring would come to consume a dream of conspiracy for Jenny Wald. yellow beans. checking my flower. Allan Dwan touching the tiny little face of Natalie Wood in the center of a rose garden. the mystic non-mystic rose wood driftwood's led


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