What's A Wart Looks Like When It's Dying

Chinise The killing of a bookie (1976-78) John Cassavetes.

A good film will raise questions that nobody has raised before, things you never thought [...]. Or, if you ever stopped to think, at least you never have thought of this. A film is an investigation about life, about who we are, about what are our responsibilities in life, if we have any. John Cassavetes

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The greatness of the work of Cassavetes is having dissolved

history, intrigue or action, but also space,

to achieve the attitudes and categories that put

time in the body, much as the thought in Deleuze Guillez

life [2].

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Cassavetes's films stems of the faces of his characters, the modulation of their voices, the gestures of the body to the brink of collapse. The camera always attentive to the blossoming of feelings, to reveal the unexpected from the research for the thrill. The shaky camera lens, dubidativo, trembling, to meet the contradictory nature of the soul human. And is that Cassavetes' films seem made of all the energy released from the bodies of their characters, their collisions and crashes, their separations, as in Faces (1968) , how it happens of hysteria to calm, from irritation to the peace, Gena Rowland interprentando Mabel Longhethi in A Woman Under the Influence (1975) or Myrtle in Openning Gordon Night (1978) "Body ontological escapes any formal determination, living sculpture, carnal, passionate. not glorious or sporting or religious This body is the limit of visibility across all representations but everything inside occur which [...] [3].. "An interior is revealed through the postures and twists that end up showing cuepos weakness and fragility of personalidadas. Some bodies are just getting so abstract apprehend them, that seem to dissolve, like the paintings of Bacon and de Kooning. Figures bizarre, strange, fleeting moments and contradicorios, depression and euphoria, with Cassavetes never know at what point can skip the crisis.

His films always seem to arrive late, as if the American director is not interested in showing the beginning of anything, just one path but with no fixed destination. That sense of work in progress that runs all their work, as if they were their own pesonajes which are tracing the history, the plot emanates and flows from them. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976-78 ) is a clear example of that sense of randomness, of becoming Therry allegedly Jousse, but his film is more calm, perhaps because they within a firm generic molds as Black Film. Sentimental arrhythmias that arise from the characters in his other films are more submerged here, not so easily emerge, because Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) is not neurotic and explosive personality of the characters of Gena Rowlands, Gloria, Gordon and Myrtle Mabel Longhethi.

The feeling that the film weaves slowly, so palpable is evident when Cosmo decides to assassinate the Chinese Bookie. Vitelli will face many unpredictable and fortuitous inconveniences, as if I had to get out of default by the mafia script and improvise, something to what was used Cassavetes himself.

Ray Carney noted in Cassavetes on Cassavetes, some similarities between the character of Cosmo and Cassavetes himself, the two liked the gambling, both have to cope with external pressures to maintain freedom "creative" Cosmo pressured by the mob with which he has made a significant debt, Cassavetes down by industry, and they both liked to tell the public, Cosmo increasingly entering the Cassavetes club while attending to their projections. A reading key personnel significantly enhances film. Cosmo as the alter ego of Cassavetes.Sin dopperlganger But there is another within the fiction, Mr Sofhistication (Meade Roberts) strange character, master of ceremonies for the Crazy Horses, the alter ego of Cosmo on stage, the confidence man , when the function begins. According to Carney, Cassavetes, I think the character thinking of Professor Rath (Emil Jennings) Blue Angel (1930) figure of the educated man who has been dragged down by mediocrity. Mr Sofhisticacion borders on travesty, pantomime and excessive. Streptase shows that runs with pompous names, border on kitsch.

The killing of a Chinesse Book was a dismal failure ie both public and critical though Cassavetes came to reap great success with his previous film A Woman Under the Influence . However, the film has had a notable influence on subsequent films. It works as emanating Go Go Tales (2007) Abel Ferrara or Exotica (1994) Atom Egoyam, both around the world the club. Heard in the long agony of Cosmo Vitelli with the bullet is his stomach, return with Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs (1992) or Cristhoper Walken the wonderful King of New York (1990).


John Cassavetes has always been a director of the hypothesis of the question. All of his films ask questions What is love? About us What unites us to people? but never says never responds. The killing of a Bookie Chinesse not respond to anything, but it will make us wonder. Although this may seem Cassavetes give us a clue, after the bloody figure of Cosmo Vitelli, dissolve the plane, into an uncertain future, Mr Sofhistication sings "I 'Can not Give You Anything But Love ".

Study of the human body (1949) Francis Bacon

[1] Carney, Ray (ed), Cassavetes on Cassavetes , Anagram Ed Chronicles, 471 pp
[2] Deleuze, Gilles, Image Time, Ed: Paidos Communication, 255 pp
[3] Jousse, Thierry, John Cassavetes, Ed: Catedra, pp