Intertextuality

Why did Peter Sollet and his studio call his movie "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"? Surely, they must want us to think about this once-popular film (and television) series. So what are the correspondences? As far as I can tell from Sollet's promo-material, the bars and clubs of New York, and the excessive drinking that goes along with?

I'm rather unlikely to watch Sollet's film (the genre is not really my thing), so I can't be sure my suspicion is correct; however, I can't help but feel of this as, in some strange way, a waste of a good title. That feeling prompted me to think about intertextuality and how it plays an important part of our exposure to popular art and culture.

Intertextuality

Why did Peter Sollet and his studio call his movie "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"? Surely, they must want us to think about this once-popular film (and television) series. So what are the correspondences? As far as I can tell from Sollet's promo-material, the bars and clubs of New York, and the excessive drinking that goes along with?

I'm rather unlikely to watch Sollet's film (the genre is not really my thing), so I can't be sure my suspicion is correct; however, I can't help but feel of this as, in some strange way, a waste of a good title. That feeling prompted me to think about intertextuality and how it plays an important part of our exposure to popular art and culture.