Awesome! Haven't listened to Pet Sounds in a few years--should have thrown it on and reviewed before making that comparison!Blue Audio Visual wrote:You can hear a kazoo towards the end of Trombone Dixie, one of the outtakes from Pet Sounds...
Fred--after looking at your original comment in the context of the thread, I think I might have misinterpreted your intent. You weren't really saying that a film had to have a story to be good, but that a film made in whatever medium would be good if it had a decent story, correct? My mistake, if so.
Still, it doesn't negate the assertion that a lot of film--particularly work most identified with experimental cinema--has nothing to do with narrative, i.e. "story." There are many pure experiments in formalism and abstraction that are just about the medium with no intent by the artist/filmmaker to create a story.
Agreed, as Carl pointed out, that there is no inherent restriction or limitation on the reader/viewer/spectator to maintain this absence of narrative meaning. In fact, in the absence of such cues from the filmmaker, many potential interpretations will certainly flourish. But the artist may have not had such intention--it might just be about the material.
Tim
