Kerouac’s three-take voiceover actually directed Pull My Daisy.

Evidence

Frank and Leslie would later compete for credit, but the author of Pull My Daisy is also its auteur. Kerouac’s commentary effectively directs the film. (So fluid and immediate that it was taken for spontaneous, his reading was in fact constructed out of three separate takes.) Not just introducing a new cinema, Pull My Daisy heralded the coming Golden Age of Bardic Verse. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 43

Categorization

• SEED: The spontaneous-looking thing being a constructed composite of three takes is a nice angle on how underground artifacts are assembled, not poured out.
• BMF: The ‘spontaneous’ bardic monologue actually being stitched from three takes — authority through apparent improvisation, actual labor hidden — echoes the constructed-order-behind-apparent-wildness structure running through Hoberman’s whole book and could resonate with the performance of authenticity theme in Home Boy.