Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2 (Tyler's monologue draft)

Well, you guys, I'd have to say I really liked this movie. There were some parts that were lame: the cowboy dancing, the bull riding, the car part. However, there is a lot going on in the movie, and, its dawdling slowness aside, something for the whole family: copulation, bees, plastic corsets, possible evil villains, Harry Houdini, reflective shallow water photography reflecting mountains and the sunset, mediocre CG. One review I read (I think the txt file from freakyflicks) said that it was a "Gothic Western." Be not fooled by that misappropriated generic attribution. It's mostly like a dreamscape (I think Brandon said that?) something that you watch with the swiftness and texture of real living. It doesn't necessarily have a generic quality to it. Just because there are cowboys in one part doesn't necessarily make it a Western, and what kind of Western? I suppose that the surrounding media (I assume there was surrounding media wherever it was first shown?) would offer some help in understanding the film. However, the credits are all I really want to focus on right now.

Cast (in credits order)

	Norman Mailer	...	Harry Houdini
	Matthew Barney	...	Gary Gilmore
	Anonymous	...	Baby Fay La Foe
	Lauren Pine	...	Bessie Gilmore
	Scott Ewalt	...	Frank Gilmore
	Patty Griffin	...	Nicole Baker
	Michael Thompson	...	Max Jensen
	Dave Lombardo	...	Johnny Cash (With Drums)
	Bruce Steele	...	Johnny Cash (With Bees)
	Steve Tucker	...	Johnny Cash (voice)
	Cat Kubic	...	Two-step Dancer
	Sam Jalhej	...	Two-step Dancer
	Jacqueline Molasses	...	French Bulldog
	Lenore Harris	...	Fay La Foe (voice)
	James Pantoleon	...	Canadian Mountie for Metamorphosis
	James T.S. Weelock Jr.	...	Canadian Mountie for Metamorphosis
	Wally Grant	...	Mormon Elder
	Roy Hadley	...	Mounted Sheriff
	Bill Hadlock	...	Mounted Sheriff
	Eric P. Reid	...	Correctional Officer
	Gene Hadley	...	Deputy Sheriff
	Virgil Neves	...	Deputy Sheriff
	M. Shane Richins	...	Deputy Sheriff
	Quinn Horrocks	...	Medic
	Boone Kirkman	...	Medic
	Timothy J. Davey	...	Canadian Mountie at Expo Entrance (as TJ Davey)
	Matthew D. Ryle	...	Canadian Mountie at Expo Entrance (as Matt Ryle)
	Gabriel Bartalos	...	Drunken Expo Guest (as Gabe Bartalos)
	Chelsea Romersa	...	Drunken Expo Guest / Masterpoint voiceover
	Shusei Sugawara	...	Exposition Custodian

What about Johnny Cash? Was he the shooter? Did he 'shoot a man just to watch him die,' so to speak?

I suppose the most dreamy quality of the film is its focus on environment and not on character, people are replaceable and it is solely focused on haunting genius loci, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, &c.
Wow! And Baby Fay La Foe was Anonymous? Amazing?


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