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[bryant]

Weird idea, while drifting off to sleep:

A Lexicon of Lost Hollywood. Each entry is a movie review of a movie that was never made; each movie review must refer forward and back to other movies. You can make up actors and directors and screenwriters if you like, but they cannot be entries: they will always be defined only by the reviews of their movies. Or, if you wish, you can use the stars that we know.

The slots are not alphabetical: they are chronological. 1940-1945; 1945-1950; 1950-1955; 1955-1960; 1960-1965; 1965-1970; 1970-1975; 1975-1980; 1980-1985; 1985-1990; 1990-1995; 1995-2000. 12 slots. The secret history of Hollywood (and Bollywood, and the BBC, and Hong Kong) is revealed slowly as the needle of time moves forward.

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[bryant]

Hm. I had this half-formed idea that you might want to imply a history of an imaginary actor through his or her imaginary films. But maybe that's biting off too much.

I had, of course, being the snob that I am, been thinking about this for "true film geeks." Trainspotters. Otaku. What's the American English word for that? Geek has too much connotation, I fear. And did you ever notice that otaku means something different in English than it does in Japanese?

1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
1970-1980
1980-1990
1990-2000
2000-present
pre-1920