Desert Movies Are There! Part Two
"Deserts are places that have exhausted their future so that we begin to see things happen there stripped of their worldly context." Chaos-Rampant, 2010. Desert Movies Are There- Part Two. It is quite perplexing that Americans find European take on American life 'negative and condescending' and almost ban Baudrillard's book just for trying to understand what happened to Europe in America. Early US Americans where none other than European. However, let us stick to this idea of European intrusions into elements of American popular culture as it proves the eligibility of desert movies to stand out as a genre of its own. Of course it is not the only deciding factor in this matter, but some of the most interesting desert movies were actually made by prominent European filmmakers. Midnight Cowboy is one good example at least in the opening scenes. I believe Wim Wenders was influenced most visibly by this 1969 movie by British filmmaker John Schlesinger in his 2005...