Intertextuality: Peace, Love, and Blogging

Taking Woodstock (2009) - Genre: Film

Four Horizontal Intertextual Connections:

1. Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding (2011) - Genre: Film
 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649780/?ref_=sr_1
 What starts out to be a simple weekend getaway soon turn into an adventure full of love, freedom, music, and self-discovery. This film shows the life of an older woman who lives in Woodstock, NY. She has maintained her simple free spirit and opened mind. A true flower child, much like the main characters in Taking Woodstock.

2. The Banger Sisters (2002) - Genre: Film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280460/?ref_=sr_1
This movie inspires the inner youth in everyone who watches. One woman who has managed to never grow up reconnects with her long-lost partner in crime to reminisce about their days as groupies in the 70s. Their obsession with music relates back to the dedication of the millions who attended Woodstock.

3. The Runaways (2010) - Genre: Film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017451/?ref_=sr_1
As Fanning and Stewart's portrayal of the legendary girl rock band The Runaways, starting the career of Joan Jett, this movies inspires new discoveries and going beyond your boundaries as a teenager. The same can be said for the main character in Taking Woodstock.

4. A Walk on the Moon (1999) - Genre: Film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120613/?ref_=sr_1
This movies shows the boredom one housewife finds with her own life and her exit to freedom through a freeloader and their weekend rendezvous with the notorious Woodstock in New York. This is an example of how sex, drugs, and music can spin you into an entirely new world.

Four Vertical Intertextual Connections:

1. Californication (2007- ) - Genre: Television Comedy/Drama
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0904208/?ref_=sr_1

 
Many of the same morals are shared between this show and Taking Woodstock. The main idea of this show is finding a balance between temptation and happiness (whatever that may be). In a montage of sex, drugs, love, family, and fame this show is charmingly dirty in all the right ways.

2. The Peace Sign - Genre: Visual

The Peace Sign is the representative flag for hippies in the late 60s to the early 70s. This sign was vastly distributed througout both the movie and the actual happenings of Woodstock. It could be seen anywhere from a t-shirt, a sign being raise, all the way to a tattoo.

3. Girls Like Us - Genre: Literature

This book discusses the lives of very influential female artists of the 60s and 70s. Their journeys and experiences throughout life and surviving Woodstock.

4. Pablo Picasso's Dove - Genre: Art

This Picasso's Dove of peace. Before moving to Los Angeles, California Picasso made it known that he wished for world peace and expressed himself through a painting of the bird above. This piece of work has been carried on used as a sign of the peace movement for generations.

Two Public Tertiary Texts:

1.  Todd Holden - Film Critic, Times Out London
http://www.timeout.com/london/film/taking-woodstock
"Anyone with an ounce of scepticism about the hippie myth will be infuriated by ‘Taking Woodstock’, a film so starry-eyed and winsome it would make Joni Mitchell blush."

2. Stephen Holden - Film Critic, New York Times
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/movies/26woodstock.html?_r=0
"'Taking Woodstock' is a gentle, meandering celebration of personal liberation at a moment when rigid social barriers were becoming more permeable, at least among the young."

One Private Tertiary Text:

1. Tate Langdon via Twitter (@kawaiialien):
"Mixed emotions while watching Taking Woodstock. Happy and sad. WISH I COULD TIME TRAVEL."