
The Fifth Element
Leeloo's strength is also her weakness.
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Leeloo's strength is also her weakness.
In life, as in baseball, things can always get better. Or worse.
A marvelous proliferation of Mickey’s meaning.
A blank affect can be a canny psychic-survival stratagem.
“It’s on America’s tortured brow / that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.”
It’s not about right vs. wrong, it’s about wit vs. shit.
The origins of today's rich, imaginative Mickey-scape.
For one moment, it seemed as though the Eighties might turn out OK.
"I am still trying to approach my work with the same intentions I had as a child."
Parody is an art form for "children who have had imposed upon them a meaningless iconography."
In its silly way, this is a movie about female sexual power.
"Disney sold him into slavery, and he’s nothing. He's nothing."
A non-compact topological group of bare-breasted women in G-strings.
"He’s so much of an institution that we’re limited in what we can do with him."