The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68174   Message #1145768
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
25-Mar-04 - 09:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Duel
Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
Bricolage is to, as a craftsman, construct something from the available materials, sometimes reengineering those materials to make them work in this particular project. You could say, perhaps, that the image of Burt Reynolds, while it acts as a reference to the film Deliverance, is not from that era--it looks like a much older Burt. The artiste engineered that canoist from disparate materials he had handy to create the reference to the film (and the music used in the film--it was the music that clued us into why Burt would be there at all).

My aim in using that word was not to begin a postmodern deconstruction of the movie, but to nod an acknowledgement to his resourcefulness in finding so many bits to stick together.

SRS