Hal as intimate interpreter of Himself's audience-obsessed films

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texture · 8 Nov YDAU / recalled

When: 8 Nov YDAU (frame); recalled JOI filmography from the anticonfluential middle period
What: Watching Mario's puppet film, Hal recognizes that Mario "gets his fetish for cartridges about puppets and entr'actes and audiences from their late father," and recalls in expert detail JOI's audience-obsession subphase: the dreaded "carnival of eyeballs" piece he won't think about, "The Medusa v. The Odalisque" (Ford's Theater, the petrifying holograms, choreographed by an Oriental who only warmed to Avril), and the notoriously "most hated" film "The Joke." Establishes Hal as the family's deepest reader of JOI's oeuvre — a Hal-JOI relationship beat.