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From: Tony Williams
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SIUC
 Some thoughts. Have you read Robin Wood, HOLLYWOOD: FROM VIETNAM TO
REAGAN(New York: Columbia University Press, 1986) on the question of
intertextuality vs. plagiarism concerning De Palma? I think both
SISTERS and OBSESSION were interesting intertextual reappropriations of
Hitchcock. But not so DRESSED TO KILL (borrowings from Argento's BIRD
WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE) and later ones. This is way off your UNTOUCHABLES
territory but it may stimulate some thoughts about what is really intertex-
tual (even with explicit references to a particular director) and what is not.
Also, the last image in De Palma's twin movie with John Lithgow was a deliberat
e rip-off of a scene in Argento's TENEBRAE.
            Tony Williams.