The scene I think that is Avant-Garde type of cinema in My Own Private Idaho is the where a stranger walks into a shop and some of the characters are on the
front cover and begin to talk to each other. I mean something like this was on
the Brady Bunch but to have the text of the magazines stay in place and as they
move. It seems like some animation and certain cutting of film took place to
make this scene possible. The scene begins at 17:34 where you see the camera
starts at mid level building wise showing the name a shop. Given by the ad underneath
the sign it seems to be an ad XXX shop. 17:35 the camera starts to tilt down
giving a view of front of the shop and three people in front. Shows rough
neighbor hood, kind of dark and dingy. Then at 17:40 the camera tracks to the
right and down of the shop with the three people in view. The music is what I would
call Indian music. As the shot lowers you see that the three people are in fact
men and gives the impression it is a gay XXX shop. At 17:45 the sound of boots
come in and is getting closer. At 17:50 a cowboy comes into full view and
enters the shop. The camera flashes inside at 17:57 and a mid shot of the
cowboy at his waste as he passes through to the back as the camera tracks him
but slowly so that at the end he is in full view while flashing some magazines
which could be important. At 18:11 we see Schott on one of the magazines and
begins to talk about his experience as a model. This is also where we finally
learn about Schott. At 18:49 Schott interacts with Mike on another magazine
cover. The covers have at least mid shots. At 19:04 the effect comes into view,
the actors on other magazines begin to interact teasing Schott about being able
to come into money while all of the actors being in what looks like total
different spots/magazines. The purpose of this scene seems to be to get the
understanding that Schott has money and show more of the Gay culture.
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