Kieran HealyI just watched Gremlins 2 for the first time since 1990. The entire film is built around a dim, vain, tasteless New York developer named Daniel Clamp, his sprawling Clamp Building and his gimcrack Clamp Empire, which includes TV stations, his inane self-aggrandizing books, and a line of jams and jellies. At the end he falls for a character named Marla. This has been a remark about how the meaning of a work of art is not something fixed or under the control of its creators.
Chancerubbage@kjhealy ‘Clamp’ existed fully then as well however, and hasn’t really changed, except in influence.
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The thing is I have known about ‘clamp’ since the late 70s, he propped up Spy magazine in the 80s, but totally forgot he had a thing to do with Gremlins 2 which I saw at first theatrical release. Just a forgettable clown.
The thing is I have known about ‘clamp’ since the late 70s, he propped up Spy magazine in the 80s, but totally forgot he had a thing to do with Gremlins 2 which I saw at first theatrical release. Just a forgettable clown.