tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post6288558736273013155..comments2024-03-28T22:40:10.893-04:00Comments on Cockeyed Caravan: The Hero Project #13: Hitchcock In The ShadowlandsMatt Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-14913633438490227442010-09-01T20:53:06.100-04:002010-09-01T20:53:06.100-04:00I don't mean to pick on Mamet's movie-- it...I don't mean to pick on Mamet's movie-- it's really not that bad. I've mentioned other moves with under-skilled, not-appealing-enough heroes: Air Force One, Collateral, even some Hitchcock movies. Of course by definition, most movie in this category are forgottable, so I could mention movies like P2, Deception, The Glass House, etc., but, alas, everybody has forgotten them. <br /><br />And I'm not saying that blankness is a Jungian thing, just that some of Jung's ideas help explain how Hitchcock made it work. <br /><br />And not every work that was influenced by Jung has to have a shadow in it, but now that you mention it, Don certainly has one: the real Don Draper who died all those years ago in Korea. Dick Whitman assumed his identity but, just like the second Mrs. DeWinter, lives in fear that people will see through his mask and expose his unsophisticated inner self.Matt Birdhttp://cockeyedcaravan.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-15430910152480776212010-09-01T15:39:53.185-04:002010-09-01T15:39:53.185-04:00Other than THE SPANISH PRISONER, where can we find...Other than THE SPANISH PRISONER, where can we find the blank Hitchcockian hero in more contemporary films? And if blankness is a Jungian thing -- apropos your post about Matt Weiner and Tony Soprano -- who is Don Draper's shadow?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com