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potboiler Informal a literary or artistic work of little merit produced quickly in order to make money How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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the message that she felt like hired help cast in a string of potboilers. Watching a granny ghost chow down on a steaming tangle of human entrails in one of the '60s Thai potboilers that influenced Tropical Malady, one glimpses the primitive source of Weerasethakul's ethereal sensibility and is doubly awed by his powers of transformation. Surely, such cabals exist only in the pages of potboilers, or in their cinematic equivalent? |
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