Kitsch & Grotesque
Kitsch
: inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value
Grotesque
: strange, fantastic, ugly incongruous, unpleasant, or bizarre
Environment
Neighborhood
Art works
Surrogate
March 11, 1982, LA
In 1988, first acting
American Beauty (1999)
more than 30 works
In the comic book,
Enid and Reb
COMIC MUSICAL
CONFUSION. The servants sing about their demanding
employers and mockingly imitate their behavior: they
imply that they have their own "party", that change is
coming.
While back in the ballroom, the Royalists are
oblivious to the servants discontent and sing their
satisfaction with their own lives.
DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE CONTINUES though the following
scenes.
ON TATIANA
in a large
comic books.
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beautiful girlsll
stay in style forever?
I should say not. Any minute now
theyre gonna be out. Finished!
Then itll be my turn!
- Mom!
- Mom!
Youre no chorus girl.
Youre a singer and a comic.
Yeah. With skinny legs.
So whyd you try out for the chorus?
Because thats what
you were looking for.
If you were looking for a juggler,
Id have been one.
I just gotta get
on the stage somehow.
How come you hi
beautiful. Hard to imagine John
choosing her over Cathy.
PEGGY
Yeah. You overslept, too. Youre
gonna be late for work if you dont
get a move on.
Jack shakes away the last of the nightmare, grabs a shower.
INT. BATHROOM -- MORNING
Jack turns on the shower, steps under the water.
INT. KITCHEN -- MORNING
John, dressed in his conservative business suit, looks at
the empty Mr. Coffee pot.
(CONTINUED)