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Article: The Brig: the paradox of resistance and recuperation.(Critical essay)
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- March 22, 2006
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If anyone still wants to make a "real" movie out of Brown's play, to
"adapt" it to cinema--he may well do it. Brown once told me he had an
idea for a million dollar production of The Brig, with thousands of
prisoners. It should be done. The point of cruelty done by one man to
another can never be overstressed. I, myself, I am not interested in
adapting plays, I always said so and I am repeating it here again. The
Brig, the movie, is not an adaptation of a play: It is a film play; it
is record of my eye and my temperament lost in the play.
--Jonas Mekas, "Shooting the Brig", 1965 (1)
What is remarkable about Jonas Mekas's The Brig is neither simply the clarity ...