futures - Past
I've never watched a DVD with the commentary on.
I picked up a cheap copy of Logan's Run for 8 bucks. Cheaper than going out to see it at the art houses. L.R. is one of my fave cheesy Sci Fi movies ( More because of the lovely Jenny Augutter. Who runs around most of the film in sort of a sea foam green romanesque hippy / disco shift, or nude. - L.R. was the first movie where I ever saw nudity on T.V. when it was shown on the CBC - Ah the mid 70's )
The free love aspect of the Logan' s Run city seems so dated, even absurd now with AIDS as part of reality. But, I have to admit , as a kid it looked like what the future might actually be like. We'd all wear practically nothing, have free love, sex, wander around in huge domed cities that looked like malls and never have to wear hats. I never believed that we'd be living on the moon or anything. But sealed in malls, that seemed real.
The commentary's kind of O.K. I like all the, "why this is this way in the movie " kind of stories. Special effects explanations. Setting cheats, Framing and editing choices. The semi-discovery of Farrah Faucett by Michael York. And odd stunt men stories. But the narrating the plot thing seems a bit O.T. I mean I've already watched the movie many times before. I don't need a play by play. But it certainly helps see all the various inferred levels of story telling and subtext that I missed as a kid, that's actually going on in the movie.
The most interesting subtext is the idea that romantic love, That the biological desire for pair bonding comes from experiencing stresses, strife and conflict as a group. (And I have to admit that several of my relationships have developed from or in situations of a group experience involving stress - good and bad.) That if we all lived in a free utopia where all our needs were met 24/7 than there's no need for pair bonding and the real feelings of romantic love would be usurped by just pure consuming. And even if we did have those feelings we wouldn't know how to act on them. And I wonder whether this is actually happening in small increments as the future becomes the present.
I've never watched a DVD with the commentary on.
I picked up a cheap copy of Logan's Run for 8 bucks. Cheaper than going out to see it at the art houses. L.R. is one of my fave cheesy Sci Fi movies ( More because of the lovely Jenny Augutter. Who runs around most of the film in sort of a sea foam green romanesque hippy / disco shift, or nude. - L.R. was the first movie where I ever saw nudity on T.V. when it was shown on the CBC - Ah the mid 70's )
The free love aspect of the Logan' s Run city seems so dated, even absurd now with AIDS as part of reality. But, I have to admit , as a kid it looked like what the future might actually be like. We'd all wear practically nothing, have free love, sex, wander around in huge domed cities that looked like malls and never have to wear hats. I never believed that we'd be living on the moon or anything. But sealed in malls, that seemed real.
The commentary's kind of O.K. I like all the, "why this is this way in the movie " kind of stories. Special effects explanations. Setting cheats, Framing and editing choices. The semi-discovery of Farrah Faucett by Michael York. And odd stunt men stories. But the narrating the plot thing seems a bit O.T. I mean I've already watched the movie many times before. I don't need a play by play. But it certainly helps see all the various inferred levels of story telling and subtext that I missed as a kid, that's actually going on in the movie.
The most interesting subtext is the idea that romantic love, That the biological desire for pair bonding comes from experiencing stresses, strife and conflict as a group. (And I have to admit that several of my relationships have developed from or in situations of a group experience involving stress - good and bad.) That if we all lived in a free utopia where all our needs were met 24/7 than there's no need for pair bonding and the real feelings of romantic love would be usurped by just pure consuming. And even if we did have those feelings we wouldn't know how to act on them. And I wonder whether this is actually happening in small increments as the future becomes the present.
The Bipolar can be bad- but we all have problems of some sort or another and mine is fairly well treated. I thinks its real danger is when you don't know you have it or its not treated or the treatment isn't working. It does have its advantages sometimes - like thinking well outside the box.
The best atmosphere between cast and crew I've found is at the Edinburgh festival, in small venues 50-180 seats. the lighting/sound boards are in the auditorium. Everyone is running about- the last show is leaving - your refocussing for the next show, the cast are helping to set there stage, if the cast are down then you help cheer them up. a cross between techie, operator, psychiatrist and stage manager- so a lot of lines are crossed already.