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Fantasier Og Iscenesættelse DENNIS POTTER Fantasier og iscenesættelse Spiller vi roller i Det Store Manuskript, som Gud, tilværelsens højere tilfældighed eller massemedierne har stykket sammen? af Kassandra Wellendorf Let’s talk about you? Ar sagerne til konflikterne forklares No, thanks. altid med et barndomstraume. I The Let’s talk about me. Singing Detective er det barnet Philips No, thanks. overværelse af moderens samleje med Then let’s talk about my book en fremmed mand i skoven, forældrenes (fra romanen ’Blackeyes) efterfølgende skilsmisse og moderens selvmord i floden, der i Philips liv har I find the notion that the world out fået knyttet begreberne sex og død sam­ there is just what it seems to be, in- men. Dette forhindrer ham i at have et tensely boring. normalt sexliv og driver ham ydermere (Dennis Potter) igen og igen i sine detektivromaner og dagdrømme til selvpinerisk at gentage traumet. I fantasien lader han alle kvin­ irkeligheden er kedelig, fantasien der drukne sig, efter at de har haft sexu- V og fiktionen den eneste måde at el omgang med mænd. Da Philip så lig­ overleve på, hævder Dennis Potter, der ger på hospitalet med sin hudsygdom, har tilbragt en stor del af sit liv i en hos­ kommer han i behandling hos en psyko­ pitalsseng og derfor må vide, hvad han analytiker, der gennem en psykoanaly­ taler om. Ligesom Philip Marlow i The tisk associationsmetode hjælper Philip Singing Detective lider Potter af en alvor­ til selv at se denne sammenhæng, nem­ lig hud- og ledsygdom, der i lange perio­ lig at det er hans mor, der er den oprin­ der lænker ham til sengen. Denne syg­ delige figur til alle de døde kvinder i dom tvang ved sit udbrud den unge Pot­ hans fantasier. ter væk fra en politisk karriere og en fast I romanen ’Blackeyes’ (1987) har vold­ stilling som journalist og var grund til, tægten af den lille pige Jessica drevet at han begyndte af brødføde sig som hende til gang på gang at forvandle sig manuskriptforfatter. til et rent objekt for mænds begær, og i I mere end 20 år har han skrevet tv- Track 29 har teenagepigen Lindas ufri­ dramatik for det engelske fjernsyn. Her­ villige graviditet og hendes fars fjernelse hjemme har vi set Waitingfor the boat og af barnet fra hende fået hende til at for­ i nyere tid The Singing Detective Instrue­ blive i rollen som en lille pige uden selv­ res af Jon Amis. Svensk TV har udsendt Michael G ambon som detektiven hhv. kri- stændig handlekraft. Hun gifter sig med Penmes from Heaven, The Visitors, og miforfatteren og Joanne Whalley som syge­ en mand, der kan fortsætte faderens do­ Christebel. Efter et par år i Hollywood, plejerske i Den syngende Detektiv, DR minans over hende og blive ved at næg­ hvor han forsøgte lykken med manu­ 10.8.-14.9.1987. te hende at få børn. I romanen ’Ticket skripter til Gorky Park og den amerikan­ to Ride’ (1986) har en tyrannisk præste- ske spillefilmsversion af Pennies from TV-genrer som sæbeopera og iscenesat faders maniske optagethed af korn­ Heaven, er han begyndt at skrive roma­ dokumentarisme, og filmgenrer som blomster og afstraffelsen af sønnen ner og er vendt tilbage til England, hvor film noir og musical. I Track 29 er det gy­ John, hvis han ikke kunne huske blom­ han efter succeen med The Singing De- serfilmen, tegneserien og lystspillet, der sternavnene udenad, fået den voksne tective af BBC har fået lov at debutere er sproget, hvori historien fortælles. John til ikke blot at fortsætte den sygeli­ som instruktør af en tv-produktion over Men Potter har altid en fasttømret ge mani med kornblomster, men også at han seneste roman ’Blackeyes’. Her­ psykologisk forklaring på de handlinger, kæde beskæftigelsen sammen med død hjemme kan vi i øjeblikket se hele to personerne foretager. At personerne og afstraffelse, hvilket han lader gå ude film med manuskript af Potter, Dream- virker skabelonsagtige og som taget ud over sin kone Helen. child instrueret af Gavin Millar og Track af en eller anden B-film, skyldes, at de Alle disse traumer afsløres gradvist, 29 instrueret af Nicolas Roeg. som regel alle er udspaltninger af én el­ idet Potter væver nutid, fortid, fantasi ler flere af hovedpersonerne, symboler og drømme sammen i komplekse pusle­ Genrer og Psyke på sider af den menneskelige psyke. Der spil, der først går op til allersidst i histo­ Potter er manden, der trækker myterne udkæmpes så temmeligt voldelige kam­ rierne. ind i massemedierne, fortæller psykolo­ pe mellem disse helte og skurke, ludere giske udviklingshistorier i en form, der og madonnaer, indtil nogle af figurerne Fantasifostre og skyggesider taler massemediernes eget sprog. I The vinder, og hovedpersonen kan spaltes Undertrykkelsen af traumerne har Singing Detective springes der mellem sammen igen. medført, at personerne, der som oftest 14 er skildret som overklasseneurotikere ne stemme. Stemmen viser sig at være by at sick old man’, fordi hendes med alle de dertil hørende kontaktvan' identisk med skriften på nogle karto­ 77-årige onkel har skrevet en bestseller, skeligheder og problemer i deres sexliv, tekskort, som John selv har skrevet før ’Suggarbush’ bygget på Jessicas beret­ begynder at fremkalde fantasifostre om­ han tog hjemmefra. Da hans kone He­ ninger fra sit eget liv som prostitueret fo­ kring sig. I The Singing Detective opfin­ len finder disse kartotekskort, begynder tomodel. I protest prøver Jessica at der Philip to alter egoer, en detektiv, der Johns fantasier at blive projieret over på skrive bogen om og lade bogen ende kan overskue det hele og rede trådene hende, og hun drives til at dræbe to per­ lykkeligt i stedet for i et selvmord. Idet ud, og en skurk Mark Binney/Finney, soner. hun gør det, tvinges hun til selv at gen­ der får skylden for alle de forkerte, onde Dette at føle sig iscenesat 'andetsteds nemføre fiktionen og begå selvmordet. og egoistiske handlinger, Philip har fore­ fra’, at der er ’noget’, der ligger uden for Til slut afsløres det, at selv om man kun­ taget i sit liv. På et tidspunkt truer figu­ den almindelige bevidsthed og påvirker ne mene, at forfatteren kun havde fået ren Mark Binney/Finney med helt at ens psyke, er et emne, der beskæftiger dikteret romanen af sin niece, er han al­ tage magten fra Philip, idet han stjæler Potter i ekstrem grad. Gentagne gange ligevel indirekte iscenesætter af hand­ hans filmmanuskript og hans kone, alt­ har han udtalt sig om den angst, han fø­ lingen, eftersom han har voldtaget hen­ imens Philip forsvarsløs ligger på hospi­ ler, når han mister grebet om sine hand­ de som lille og derved drevet hende til talet. Men til sidst udrydder den syn­ linger. ’The ways in which you feel gang på gang at reducere sig selv til et gende detektiv skurkene, og det gode al­ yourself to be in somebody else’s story; objekt for ældre mænds begær. ’She was ter ego vinder over det onde. how at every turn, it’s almost as though there to be invented in any postyre, any I ’Ticket to Ride’ har John i protest your secret thoughts are being written words, over and over again ejaculatory mod sin dominerende far opfundet en for you’. loging’. Jessica reduceres fra at være en dobbeltgænger, der også hedder John. Potter veksler mellem flere forskellige virkelig person til et fantasibillede i Denne John udfører i fantasien alle de former for iscenesættelse i sine histo­ mænds lystfantasier eller en fiktiv figur oprørshandlinger, John selv er for fej til rier: i en bog. at udføre, men på et tidspunkt begyn­ Vi har personer, der iscenesætter sine I Dreamchild. er personen Mrs. Har- der denne skyggeside at skinne igennem fantasier ved at projicere dem over på graves, til hvem bogen ’Alice i Eventyr­ Johns egen facade, og han beslutter sig andre personer i handlingen. Vi ser land’ er skrevet, kommet til Amerika på for at skille sig af med den. Skyggen få f.eks. Nicola i The Singing Detective ud­ 100 års fødselsdagen for forfatteren, Le- så sit eget liv, i hvilket den til sidst ender føre hovedpersonen Philips dagdrøm­ wis Caroll. Man kan sige, at var hun i sin på et sindsygehospital, mens John selv me, og Helen i ’Ticket to Ride’, udføre tid grunden, til at bogen blev skrevet, er kan få orden på sit liv. I Track 29 har sin mands syge fantasier. I TV-produkti- bogen nu grunden til, at hun endelig Lindas fortrængte vrede, sorg og oprørs­ onen The Visitors dirigerer en teenage- foretager den rejse ind i eventyrland, trang været holdt nede så længe, at den dreng rundt med de voksne omkring som bogen handler om. Hendes rejse pludselig materialiseres i hendes version ham til tonerne af hans walkman. For at ind i Amerika afspejler nemlig historien af det barn, der blev taget fra hende som bryde den kedsomhed, de ellers udstrå­ i bogen. Ligesom Jessica i ’Blackeyes’ spæd. Denne fantasifigur har så ligesom ler, reducerer han dem til brikker i sine har hun på et eller andet tidspunkt Væ­ skyggen i ’Ticket to Ride’ modet til at lystfantasier, fremkalder en gruppe ter­ ret tvunget ’ at fuldføre bogens hand­ udføre oprøret, i dette tilfælde at dræbe rorister, der nedskyder alle personerne. ling. Lindas mand og smadre hans modeltog, Vi har skyggesider, der dikterer perso­ Tilfælde, skæbne eller iscenesættelse? symbolet på den falliske magt, der i så nerne, hvad de skal gøre, som Johns Det er disse 3 begreber Potter bestan­ lang tid har undertrykt Linda og berø­ skygge i ’Ticket to Ride’, der prøver at digt kredser om. ’This was too much of vet hende en selvstændig identitet.
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