tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50702126358698427582024-03-13T23:09:03.706-07:00The Wmmvrrvrrmm BlogRevelations through misreadings and misinterpretations, synchronicities, experiences relating to seeing cinema movies and episodes of dream like confusions in lifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-12675975649029341172022-09-13T03:03:00.003-07:002022-09-13T03:05:55.447-07:00Carl Sagan Quote<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvl14PBsGoWpeuIpk8TBYWmNue_IM2Dv_TyQMN1yCoW_jpb8Uf_wFExh0YDI9W53XmraJpaf9W9L2kCeSCdzCrJQ7Ni8Ot6VvqzYdnREj1qg4Fxuv82q_ib2QS7rwS6jj76RIq6vf9cpevGHUif9KFeiNT_1KrbDKt0eG_MbYZJv4cpc5KbcrR5gvmng/s1172/sagan%20quote%201977.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="631" height="672" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvl14PBsGoWpeuIpk8TBYWmNue_IM2Dv_TyQMN1yCoW_jpb8Uf_wFExh0YDI9W53XmraJpaf9W9L2kCeSCdzCrJQ7Ni8Ot6VvqzYdnREj1qg4Fxuv82q_ib2QS7rwS6jj76RIq6vf9cpevGHUif9KFeiNT_1KrbDKt0eG_MbYZJv4cpc5KbcrR5gvmng/w361-h672/sagan%20quote%201977.png" width="361" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-91933143009734493642022-09-10T01:16:00.023-07:002022-09-21T02:48:21.444-07:00Aquazillameg: The Oversized Monster From The Sea story- Thoughts after seeing The Meg, Aquaman and Godzilla: King of the Monsters<div style="text-align: center;"><b>leading from</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.com/p/cinema.html">Zeitgeist in Cinema </a><a href="https://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.com/p/cinema-wmm.html"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.com/p/visionary-wmm.html">Paranoiac Critical Wmm</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">(still being developed) </span><br /></div><p> </p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>a) </b><u><b>Submarine rescue and attack?</b></u><br />
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<b>a.i)</b> <u><b> Submarine rescue</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In The Meg, a minisub lands on the back of a submarine to rescue the people inside, and soon it's being discovered that the submarine is being attacked by a huge brutal monstrous life form. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Perhaps the assumption is that there's a giant sea creature outside attempting to crush the submarine,</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />As it leaves, there is an explosion in the vast submarine. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyILqf1oBAIvqeITKwbpjADFR9MCZDxuNFgrg-nmXmpQszOiy1afmpSs7VMq5aUDF7Hz7npFcaF3oVmWmVDVtA2k-G1epHC_K5zyRtFEIB8ic65FhMbivPyg-n_Wv_WPan88QNwS-4fwmq-K4fVqde3GAnKJAB_QSvG18nOAF66ONm-MJBlrC7wZEhCQ/s2560/the%20meg%2014.48.42%201.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="2560" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyILqf1oBAIvqeITKwbpjADFR9MCZDxuNFgrg-nmXmpQszOiy1afmpSs7VMq5aUDF7Hz7npFcaF3oVmWmVDVtA2k-G1epHC_K5zyRtFEIB8ic65FhMbivPyg-n_Wv_WPan88QNwS-4fwmq-K4fVqde3GAnKJAB_QSvG18nOAF66ONm-MJBlrC7wZEhCQ/w400-h169/the%20meg%2014.48.42%201.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>a.ii)</b> <u><b>Submarine attack </b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In Aquaman a pirate's minisub lands on the back of a large submarine, but it looks as if the minisub is a parasite fastened onto a large fish by suckers</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPveaAv0bUpkcZK-i28UqBcGKb-TwbTrdA7RXc3vIOeib5qlL_MsfAqWOnfgD7I--JbDjdxOH7M0kURoDseUyC4fReCLh_A7y05OooR1Xe7miaTYLUfarXhR4m9MvEHRTNzPUipWIniagCzkemRU7qjX1d3QxWF1cxhK72DO4wPN-yKWgMmFUxkTbWA/s2560/aquaman%2014.37.45.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvPveaAv0bUpkcZK-i28UqBcGKb-TwbTrdA7RXc3vIOeib5qlL_MsfAqWOnfgD7I--JbDjdxOH7M0kURoDseUyC4fReCLh_A7y05OooR1Xe7miaTYLUfarXhR4m9MvEHRTNzPUipWIniagCzkemRU7qjX1d3QxWF1cxhK72DO4wPN-yKWgMmFUxkTbWA/w400-h168/aquaman%2014.37.45.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<b> </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>a.iii)</b> <u><b>Act of failure</b></u><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In The Meg, members of a submarine crew have been left behind in The Meg and the rescuer is to be
blamed for many years to come.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<b>a.iv) <u>Thirst for revenge</u></b><br />
In Aquaman, a pirate whose father is left to die in the submarine by Aquaman wants revenge leading him to become the supervillain The Mantis.<br />
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<b>b) <u>Kramer vs Kramer becomes Gamera vs Gamera</u></b><br />
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<b>b.i ) </b><u><b>Family confusions</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A family have split up over their concerns for giant monsters and one of their needs to destroy civilisation so that it can start again without destroying the planet<b>.</b> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The parents furiously blame each regarding the way they have raised their daughter and the use of a special all powerful bio-acoustics generator machine that can communicate with the giant monsters. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It's only their confusion that allows them to think that it's real or if
you have a problem with someone, they're too busy with dealing with
their personal giant monster in their basement. <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The machine appears to be only something that's an expression of the unconscious, like a physicalised metaphor and hardly likely to be real. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">By the end of the film, in the hands of the young girl Madison Russell played by
Millie Bobby Brown, it might as well be some sort of weird Navi computer
from the anime series Serial Experiments Lain for accessing the Wired which was an ever developing, evolving virtual world similar to the real world's current internet at the time. <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU02SQ9JznaYvRCD3Ik1-oYAfdAsgegwYYK1ierEebk9V_X_NVpfoxEDCrEBMeBkZVonSIA3oV9XK7FPyQ5CrcyaXvpUVkNAeKl_K4L1fxMLKSYpCwdv6ONCab9ZYRWQW6GJHYsEV-gvONk3BZ0xYZGt3_8PQYTlvxDjQ8LGoQyTZ59wtiVRSgRtTxYQ/s2560/machine.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1471" data-original-width="2560" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU02SQ9JznaYvRCD3Ik1-oYAfdAsgegwYYK1ierEebk9V_X_NVpfoxEDCrEBMeBkZVonSIA3oV9XK7FPyQ5CrcyaXvpUVkNAeKl_K4L1fxMLKSYpCwdv6ONCab9ZYRWQW6GJHYsEV-gvONk3BZ0xYZGt3_8PQYTlvxDjQ8LGoQyTZ59wtiVRSgRtTxYQ/w400-h230/machine.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span>bio-<i>acoustics generator</i></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><b>b.ii.a)</b> <b><u>The Man who photographs himself being torn apart by hyenas revealed to be wolves </u></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b> </b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In the introduction to Kyle Chandler as Dr Mark Russell who father character in Godzilla: king of the monsters, who was out in the wilderness photographing what I thought were hyenas feeding on an animal carcass but on closer examination turned out to be wolves. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I had decided that the animal were ripping his own lower body apart to the point where it was scraps of bones on flesh, and he, screaming with insane laughter, wants to be ripped apart by these animals, and he just didn't realise that the animal carcass was his own body.<br />
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Perhaps they they have chewed his male member and left foot, while beginning to rip away much of his lower skin and muscle, but before they can do anything that is too severe or realistic, because it must all have been in the mind. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_MHIFcH_b0evGehIzDYvPO9a1dCGRQvFMcucSqj8QKzMJMTD1MwxB-z8o78jd3iBAn1h_jKB1Xy35iziNXXzIoWHvOyisoUMG-JTKxnj5vrO9xBHYXl07gQPqtws1ibF5u6QkD8TVZFlpwrqMKkZHdWU3gf566rCPMFdHb4wmW84natKNadKkxs5CA/s2560/wolves%202022-04-06%20at%2020.27.50.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_MHIFcH_b0evGehIzDYvPO9a1dCGRQvFMcucSqj8QKzMJMTD1MwxB-z8o78jd3iBAn1h_jKB1Xy35iziNXXzIoWHvOyisoUMG-JTKxnj5vrO9xBHYXl07gQPqtws1ibF5u6QkD8TVZFlpwrqMKkZHdWU3gf566rCPMFdHb4wmW84natKNadKkxs5CA/w400-h168/wolves%202022-04-06%20at%2020.27.50.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxeV1VCx7qeJ-jEvZ7c3HLaqpOtoUQJhnxmFTfGj0dDmwsRovpg3Gg-TWI4EV2e19S_0jEY46MWN2JME2Xab5lF4Jeb7QqDV0OFx5Qtg25oKmwouz8P0r7Bj3gYJulc7NZ0yd-MWYm586b-z7OxqTvAtA5DtTeENTDdOiYPWZnylNrEjVo7zHk6QSAw/s2560/wolves.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxeV1VCx7qeJ-jEvZ7c3HLaqpOtoUQJhnxmFTfGj0dDmwsRovpg3Gg-TWI4EV2e19S_0jEY46MWN2JME2Xab5lF4Jeb7QqDV0OFx5Qtg25oKmwouz8P0r7Bj3gYJulc7NZ0yd-MWYm586b-z7OxqTvAtA5DtTeENTDdOiYPWZnylNrEjVo7zHk6QSAw/w400-h168/wolves.png" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlutVzMmG3eMmnswNDD4FfPI2jh_FctxJMQW-XrE1VQ_MNNPvUHi0ZPUhNmKHsKs8Ul_gkbNOcK40NBZsxF4ncIJw50lg2X0sO2mMmYsW7JLso0IReTb5qYe37yQ-Wk3DS7zuJ4XJbovAcbUb0sP5jrrfR--He6u4WV5OZLXIYDePSoJIIGFPKyVfPg/s2560/wolves%202022-04-06%20at%2020.27.41.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="2560" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDlutVzMmG3eMmnswNDD4FfPI2jh_FctxJMQW-XrE1VQ_MNNPvUHi0ZPUhNmKHsKs8Ul_gkbNOcK40NBZsxF4ncIJw50lg2X0sO2mMmYsW7JLso0IReTb5qYe37yQ-Wk3DS7zuJ4XJbovAcbUb0sP5jrrfR--He6u4WV5OZLXIYDePSoJIIGFPKyVfPg/w400-h166/wolves%202022-04-06%20at%2020.27.41.png" width="400" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87lFN_zEBEuYcej-rsR2FC83aM6ZyCjExPZj3mfbHTef-lKMXtLEii-o_5RdcbrKx3DKK55Kui2YxavebUhNaWBNG77kZR79IB-cdX04l9Z3cVqBFJ_L37ww_JfmsIXeSRY1loyt5EQ_51yYcfUvG_8ryvPXI2GHgsu334hGat6JsQBJbOz_9986DPw/s2560/wolves%202022-04-06%20at%2020.27.53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="2560" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87lFN_zEBEuYcej-rsR2FC83aM6ZyCjExPZj3mfbHTef-lKMXtLEii-o_5RdcbrKx3DKK55Kui2YxavebUhNaWBNG77kZR79IB-cdX04l9Z3cVqBFJ_L37ww_JfmsIXeSRY1loyt5EQ_51yYcfUvG_8ryvPXI2GHgsu334hGat6JsQBJbOz_9986DPw/w400-h166/wolves%202022-04-06%20at%2020.27.53.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">b.ii.b) <u><b>Osprey landing</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u><b> </b></u><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Anyway,
a frightening giant monstrous Osprey helicopter lands frightening the wolves away
and perhaps doing irrepairable damage to the local environment to pick the man up and take him away.<br />
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parents have lost a son and the mother wants to do something about the
world in his memory, but really she had no idea what she thought she
was doing anyway. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If this dead son of hers was simply a false
memory and there was false evidence to back it up. I would be amongst the first the push the idea!<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbZKDVs1cvzS0XdOO60vMnrrhCkkX1o0fhF4GqElsYYR5zcSTLueEx-rP0F_gaYOHG8hCYmXiW0OYnxd_CAfsVzgFPFvku3hNWEADzYLbyhOsVHXbiWgMvJkasF5EZJcswBxBoras4uFxvvxqzUb-v4-e_EH8r1V1UH74RhtwP7bFBu7NWW8D3qATmg/s931/ob_e8f45b_godzilla-2-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="931" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbZKDVs1cvzS0XdOO60vMnrrhCkkX1o0fhF4GqElsYYR5zcSTLueEx-rP0F_gaYOHG8hCYmXiW0OYnxd_CAfsVzgFPFvku3hNWEADzYLbyhOsVHXbiWgMvJkasF5EZJcswBxBoras4uFxvvxqzUb-v4-e_EH8r1V1UH74RhtwP7bFBu7NWW8D3qATmg/w400-h169/ob_e8f45b_godzilla-2-10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYuAfRCeSbLRiFzMHcqQAMvca5_8A-NEbPSHeYo0SMjWgV7EwR2xg-IcXsQPzAtiyCTBqSyxMQ21EZJZZm-Du7VyHgtMiRFFNAFugYY9FZxuMsI5_7RaFxkclyqE5Q1JUp8iB-mxFSq1xc-bhkp-B9fABlasu9CIPOp1FcMlXo25X34yFBOr48YNe0Q/s450/450.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="360" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRYuAfRCeSbLRiFzMHcqQAMvca5_8A-NEbPSHeYo0SMjWgV7EwR2xg-IcXsQPzAtiyCTBqSyxMQ21EZJZZm-Du7VyHgtMiRFFNAFugYY9FZxuMsI5_7RaFxkclyqE5Q1JUp8iB-mxFSq1xc-bhkp-B9fABlasu9CIPOp1FcMlXo25X34yFBOr48YNe0Q/w320-h400/450.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>b.iv)</b> <u><b>Jonah vs Jonas</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u><b> </b></u><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The mother has hitched up with a eco terrorist who thinks that he can learn from these giant life forms, be the master and bring down civilisation. His name to Jonah to add to the confusion (<b><i>just to confuse those who are thinking about the character Jonas Taylor from The Meg</i></b>) however I recall the actor Charles Dance playing the prison planet doctor name Clemens in Alien 3, and although he isn't Lance Henriksen, because of the way he turns up and soon ends up in a very cold installation in the antarctic reminds me of Bishop II from Alien 3 </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Perhaps he has been creating mechanical replicas of himself but soon realised that he himself was not the person that he thought he was and that scenario disintegrated, but as Bishop II played by Charles Dance Henriksen, </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">He comes to rescue Ripley and Newt as if they were still alive but transformed into members of the Russell family looking nothing like Sigourney Weaver or Carrie Henn.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3vXKfOClMHKHEM3Ua7LopjikrumDsnkZWKYNYnljvAANPqHDWEuk6ClleFSbSI-D78YurMY4rpTs_iLtnh-wFlPvvkv5VCewa9I8RAewlSpeTobFBqjid8Oz7WmjUVpWfioukhnrTH8_rNtXwIZlodgcubRGFJul6oKFQBPUPDKgoQXASZw-uoNOQA/s2610/jonah%20and%20jonas.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="2610" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ3vXKfOClMHKHEM3Ua7LopjikrumDsnkZWKYNYnljvAANPqHDWEuk6ClleFSbSI-D78YurMY4rpTs_iLtnh-wFlPvvkv5VCewa9I8RAewlSpeTobFBqjid8Oz7WmjUVpWfioukhnrTH8_rNtXwIZlodgcubRGFJul6oKFQBPUPDKgoQXASZw-uoNOQA/w400-h115/jonah%20and%20jonas.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<b> </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>c) <u>Undersea whatever</u></b><br />
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<b>c.i.1) <u>Cityscape in Godzilla: King of the Monsters inspired by Atlantis</u></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Deep in the ocean in Godzilla, they discover the home of Godzilla where he comes to sleep and heal his wounds. His pyramid like cradle is surrounded by the remains of a complicated ancient cityscape. The design of the place was inspired by an illustration of Atlantis. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Michael Dougherty:<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span> The mountain where Godzilla's lair is located in is inspired by Mount Sinai, while the sea that surrounds it was inspired by supposed ancient designs of Atlantis. I'm not saying it is Atlantis, it's Atlantis-esque.</span></span> (Godzilla: King of the monsters director's commentary (01:35:36))<br /></li></ol></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">c.i.2) <u><b>Destruction of an ancient city</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u><b> </b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The explorers marvel at the sight of
the ancient city and all they can learn from aeons of stories it could
tell but realised that it has to be destroyed with a nuclear bomb making
the monster who lives their powered up but homeless.<br /> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">They obviously magically scanned the whole city in 3D while they were
there so that they could print the whole place out again with a 3D
printer elsewhere, which has been seen as a solution for Palmyra ruins destroyed by a group known as ISIS</div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">c.i.3) <b><u>Amalgam of cultures in the manner of the Alien vs Predator movie pyramid</u></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u> </u><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">While the cityscape was supposed to represent a place that predated many cultures. There was the strange pyramid from the film Alien vs Predator that was built by a root culture before they split up into different known cultures, it appeared to be an amalgam of those different cultures that had developed later on. This city perhaps seemed to have been developed in much the same way rather than by attempting to show something that was new and barely imaginable in today's society. However it was very interesting when seen in shadow. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(See also: <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2004/02/von-daniken-inspires-alien-vs-predator.html">Von Daniken concepts in Alien vs Predator</a>)
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #f4cccc;">We built a library of twenty ruined buildings to pull from. The city predates many cultures so had deliberate design influences from multiple sources , Mesopotamian, Eastern Asian and Central American. We built the city to suggest it was hewn from natural rock and so we studied real examples of real architecture around the world, from Petra's treasures to the Lyceum tombs in Turkey and rock cut cave temples in India such as Ilora and Baja. </span>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QNqyOn4I34">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QNqyOn4I34</a>) </li></ol></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJ4fECZDef0/X7-BvszQyzI/AAAAAAAA4_U/v9jUGEvkX3gHBhKnU5obDWULVWtMXUlegCPcBGAsYHg/s1802/godzilla%2527s%2Bhome.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="1802" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TJ4fECZDef0/X7-BvszQyzI/AAAAAAAA4_U/v9jUGEvkX3gHBhKnU5obDWULVWtMXUlegCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h181/godzilla%2527s%2Bhome.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mysterious city beneath the sea from "Godzilla: King Of The Monsters" <br /> based upon an illustration of Atlantis, shortly before it's destroyed by a nuclear bomb<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<b> </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>c.ii) <u>Old Atlantean Ruins from Aquaman</u><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Meanwhile in Aquaman,
we have the story of Atlantis' destruction and rebuilding, while there
are these ruins of the old Atlantis still to be found and wrecked in the
story, soon to be attacked by a rogue submarine firing missiles at it<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UuubG19tQ1I/X7-DpPECHbI/AAAAAAAA4_0/Wi-WdpFKFOgwVZqzcnqQ4_1C1ueyK7dFQCPcBGAsYHg/s2048/ruins%2Bfrom%2Baquaman.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="2048" height="183" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UuubG19tQ1I/X7-DpPECHbI/AAAAAAAA4_0/Wi-WdpFKFOgwVZqzcnqQ4_1C1ueyK7dFQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h183/ruins%2Bfrom%2Baquaman.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old Atlantean ruins<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<b>c.iii) <u>Untouched undersea world with megaladon sharks in The Meg<br /></u></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u><b> </b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In The Meg, we have the discovery of a mysterious ancient sea world that is little disturbed by man. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As mentioned in the film the idea was that since 1875, they all believed that the Mariana trench was the deepest
place on Earth. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So there was a theory that what they think is the bottom is
actually a layer of hydrogen sulfide with warm water beneath a cloud in
freezing cold thermal climb.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div>They wanted to find warm water down there with a completely new under water world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In the film, there the Megalodon sharks have existed for countless aeons and so in the course of the movie have been let out by mankinds doings, to trouble mankind.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqapwsO4GWPwOBclH3M_jXm2QmICq1YpjF7sxmZGYVILAzAnejDgmkkmn11Gyq7o5uMVSYJEGvgCvh-mOkXex7GmKWJvMoQOeyv4xTL_Lp7GY9dxbmtPfdZ2S-fTFvIs6DOaY3q5Mt-kLEtzxkzt6uUjbK0oNncxH1Xk1Eq6gNMjtu_JhmeikqLGs9bw/s2297/The%20Meg%2022.29.35.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="2297" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqapwsO4GWPwOBclH3M_jXm2QmICq1YpjF7sxmZGYVILAzAnejDgmkkmn11Gyq7o5uMVSYJEGvgCvh-mOkXex7GmKWJvMoQOeyv4xTL_Lp7GY9dxbmtPfdZ2S-fTFvIs6DOaY3q5Mt-kLEtzxkzt6uUjbK0oNncxH1Xk1Eq6gNMjtu_JhmeikqLGs9bw/w400-h164/The%20Meg%2022.29.35.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trench with a layer of gas<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWeMyp-zhPw1KFttfXFoZZazioMGWmGp81pNRmMP1dU1MM8ytM3dDaUprYcomTxe0utAtAgwqJcfcqT7MdWNZqdSwIx_AJhS06pEtSWRy_DXlqYOOKmnj2Zk-Aqbp6UEnxvqryaPruEkNDdo-aBEJQPg6G-pO0UVVKLBha4bXACkteUbSoqsmQJOzv_w/s2303/The%20Meg%2022.29.47.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="2303" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWeMyp-zhPw1KFttfXFoZZazioMGWmGp81pNRmMP1dU1MM8ytM3dDaUprYcomTxe0utAtAgwqJcfcqT7MdWNZqdSwIx_AJhS06pEtSWRy_DXlqYOOKmnj2Zk-Aqbp6UEnxvqryaPruEkNDdo-aBEJQPg6G-pO0UVVKLBha4bXACkteUbSoqsmQJOzv_w/w400-h164/The%20Meg%2022.29.47.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trench with layer removed<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<b>d)</b> <u><b>Big monster seen through an undersea window</b></u><br />
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<b>d.i)</b> <u><b>Little girl in The Meg</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u><b> </b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Through the undersea window in the sea-rig undersea observatory, a little girl
looks through the glass window and a vast shark like beast with glowing
lights comes to try to bite through the window. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqmGrZduBEA/X61SDlu05nI/AAAAAAAA4xw/diWJ-nHmTicaWyBuCld5p4acbVvKwnUewCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/the%2Bmeg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.16.16.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qqmGrZduBEA/X61SDlu05nI/AAAAAAAA4xw/diWJ-nHmTicaWyBuCld5p4acbVvKwnUewCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h168/the%2Bmeg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.16.16.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Piljsw2P0Uk/X60_BzbghqI/AAAAAAAA4uY/ZFGA-egKZRMpqxJqaASxxQ1PoLg1jwN8QCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.41.32.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1071" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Piljsw2P0Uk/X60_BzbghqI/AAAAAAAA4uY/ZFGA-egKZRMpqxJqaASxxQ1PoLg1jwN8QCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h168/meg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.41.32.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mxMliHAW3SA/X61MwxWn4gI/AAAAAAAA4ws/NYry9GU_6mkWY3Q7BuBmpilNVRNjrf-ZwCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B14.51.20%2B1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mxMliHAW3SA/X61MwxWn4gI/AAAAAAAA4ws/NYry9GU_6mkWY3Q7BuBmpilNVRNjrf-ZwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h168/meg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B14.51.20%2B1.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2unsT2jasY/X60_B1TlPGI/AAAAAAAA4uY/Iy5f-95hbwklzwjO3Tvd9ofo-9VSzwL5QCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.41.33.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2unsT2jasY/X60_B1TlPGI/AAAAAAAA4uY/Iy5f-95hbwklzwjO3Tvd9ofo-9VSzwL5QCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h168/meg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.41.33.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>d.i.a) <u>Leaving an impression behind</u></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It leaves an impression of its teeth in the glass. It returns to chomp
up a whale that came to the window, as if intimidating the main
characters who have to work out what to expect next <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yAskG7PD360/X61LZGR8E9I/AAAAAAAA4wY/urWWQWqLVfIqPqWm3bqeC49yiCMtYzjGgCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.58.32.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="2560" height="165" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yAskG7PD360/X61LZGR8E9I/AAAAAAAA4wY/urWWQWqLVfIqPqWm3bqeC49yiCMtYzjGgCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h165/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.58.32.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQsu-nfcbh0/X61LZGLhZ5I/AAAAAAAA4wY/i0AP2V75-e8Bl1ZqZ3vjkxhsNlEFsUiZACPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="2560" height="166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JQsu-nfcbh0/X61LZGLhZ5I/AAAAAAAA4wY/i0AP2V75-e8Bl1ZqZ3vjkxhsNlEFsUiZACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h166/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1HQ9NjuRNQI/X61LZGQyJcI/AAAAAAAA4wY/6Wj6JHIH-fo1YpB17hTU6fswGTi-MS_CwCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.04.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1HQ9NjuRNQI/X61LZGQyJcI/AAAAAAAA4wY/6Wj6JHIH-fo1YpB17hTU6fswGTi-MS_CwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h168/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.04.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-asRV0puh6fg/X61LZAt7pMI/AAAAAAAA4wY/EUYTH6Fnrr4oQOfj8iq9tM4yinPmqPyNQCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.18.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-asRV0puh6fg/X61LZAt7pMI/AAAAAAAA4wY/EUYTH6Fnrr4oQOfj8iq9tM4yinPmqPyNQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h168/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.18.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j643Ai4e4gY/X61LZAa-HVI/AAAAAAAA4wY/8ACjm93D264GGNIlhxuKo5fCfStYiSzYwCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="2560" height="166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j643Ai4e4gY/X61LZAa-HVI/AAAAAAAA4wY/8ACjm93D264GGNIlhxuKo5fCfStYiSzYwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h166/meg%2B%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.59.22.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<b>d.ii)</b> <u><b>Little boy in Aquaman</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><u><b> </b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In Aquaman, the little boy communicates with the sea animals in the oceanarium. As two boys come to intimidate him, a large shark comes along and hits the window cracking it, scaring the two boys off </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-foH-gStmD4c/X61PnfHE_pI/AAAAAAAA4xY/wjZp-wMmkLUO_6l-EhnPVD5R8uAUeg-4QCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/aquaman%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.04.54.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="2560" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-foH-gStmD4c/X61PnfHE_pI/AAAAAAAA4xY/wjZp-wMmkLUO_6l-EhnPVD5R8uAUeg-4QCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h168/aquaman%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.04.54.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nUVgQI0Kxs8/X60_B-UEvbI/AAAAAAAA4uY/IdTXh6Ynqw8VU4Scgxc_s2lDKdhYedL7gCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/aquaman%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.40.04.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="2560" height="166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nUVgQI0Kxs8/X60_B-UEvbI/AAAAAAAA4uY/IdTXh6Ynqw8VU4Scgxc_s2lDKdhYedL7gCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h166/aquaman%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.40.04.png" width="400" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Is07icMHRWA/X60_B0di-YI/AAAAAAAA4uY/EIX6Mr6ljo4lod2-gt1Q39tFJpxtLyBIwCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/aquaman%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.40.07.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="2560" height="165" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Is07icMHRWA/X60_B0di-YI/AAAAAAAA4uY/EIX6Mr6ljo4lod2-gt1Q39tFJpxtLyBIwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h165/aquaman%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B13.40.07.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>d.iii)</b> <u><b>Intimidation in Godzilla</b></u><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla is seen
through the window intimidating the people the undersea viewing room of
the rig. I suppose it's here that I have to fuse Godzilla with the
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<b>e) The </b><u><b>Killing of the Shark or Submarine?</b></u><br />
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<b>e.i)</b> <u><b>Slashing a megladon shark's side in The Meg</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In The Meg, Jonas Taylor slashes the side of the megladon shark with a blade from his minisub causing smaller sharks to taste its blood and then tear it apart</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<br />f.i)<b> <u>Death of Toshi in "The Meg"</u></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b> </b><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">An oriental man with note book sacifices himself to save the day and with his death there's an explosion. In The Meg it's Masi Oka as the character Toshi killing off a sea creature<br /><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NvTZ6JDEaVg/X61VBsRNmsI/AAAAAAAA4yk/i0ff97AgARwGqrs71U77iyPrB3XrxEykgCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/the%2Bmeg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.09.16.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="2560" height="166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NvTZ6JDEaVg/X61VBsRNmsI/AAAAAAAA4yk/i0ff97AgARwGqrs71U77iyPrB3XrxEykgCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h166/the%2Bmeg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.09.16.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5GXEbQGPc4/X61VBhsOw3I/AAAAAAAA4yk/ecBPFjPgSbcqeP5X97CO-Lz31BWhY9kywCPcBGAsYHg/s2560/the%2Bmeg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.09.19.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="2560" height="166" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5GXEbQGPc4/X61VBhsOw3I/AAAAAAAA4yk/ecBPFjPgSbcqeP5X97CO-Lz31BWhY9kywCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h166/the%2Bmeg%2B2020-11-12%2Bat%2B15.09.19.png" width="400" /></a></div>
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ready to set of a nuclear bomb to give Godzilla the energy he needs to
heal. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">After he sets up the weapon, he takes off his helmet and touches the great beast as if it was a friend. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Then the bomb explodes consuming everything around destroying the ruins of the ancienty city in a flash.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">We might also take note of the fact that in the 1954 version of Godzilla, Dr Serizawa is the one who took the oxygen destroyer to the bottom of the ocean to kill Godzilla.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Michael Dougherty<span style="color: #ea9999;">: It's like he's now heading to the afterlife. Welcome to Valhalla! Honestly, if you keep a close eye, you can see remnants of ships scattered around, like, sort of like Godzilla snacks, You can have. He's he's been chomping down on ships over the centuries, erm, yuh I really wanted this to be a holy experience, like it's not frightening, actually very comforting, it feels like a completion of Serizawa's journey, ah, but it also mirrors the journey of Serizawa in the original '54 film so where as that Serizawa was taking the oxygen destroyer to the bottom of the ocean to kill Godzilla, this incarnation of Serizawa is using a weapon of mass destruction in order to save Godzilla. </span>(Godzilla: King of the monsters director's commentary (01:32:04))
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g.i) <u><b>Vast flying wing</b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The vast control deck in the rig appears to be being moved into a vast flying wing aircraft, and in its place is another control deck with skeleton crew. <br />
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g.ii) <b><u>Vast flying monster</u></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As the craft separates from the rig, with all the important staff aboard, soon it is being chased by a vast pterodactyl like creature named Rodan, but since I am European and it sounds too much like the name of the sculpt Auguste Rodin, in my ignorance I will call it Rodin.<br />
<br />g.iii) <u><b>Possibilities of the beast and the vehicle fusing into one? </b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Before long one might start to imagine that the flying wing is somehow the Rodin beast itself to the point where it didn't matter if it wasn't.<br />
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Does the flying wing have a monster head now, does it flap its wings and do they have windows along the side?<br />
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Perhaps it needs a hundred little doors beneath it all for a seperate Osprey to leave the vessel.<br />
<br />g.iv) <u><b>What if the control room of the flying wing was always in the rig. </b></u></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If it turns out that the crew of the rig had never left the actual rig all this time, despite wandering around the vast flying wing, no one would be aware after a while anyway and it would suit the budget.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0mMDrx4P5297zC6UQTrPWnFGQ_nBMLIRtI4cfe6gE8wMn4Wx5fOVIzOq3AP1D27Y32twjjAK8a09x2m3TMwMcRlc8C3taJANFo0yS5nS1hG61COXY-KH8dhjQQT7v_GCOS5KJk0rJA_z5DvjeHGGGS_5QQuYi9VO1lgyrhx12PYaHmAPintdmRiroOA/s1200/Rodan%20and%20the%20flying%20wing.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0mMDrx4P5297zC6UQTrPWnFGQ_nBMLIRtI4cfe6gE8wMn4Wx5fOVIzOq3AP1D27Y32twjjAK8a09x2m3TMwMcRlc8C3taJANFo0yS5nS1hG61COXY-KH8dhjQQT7v_GCOS5KJk0rJA_z5DvjeHGGGS_5QQuYi9VO1lgyrhx12PYaHmAPintdmRiroOA/w400-h209/Rodan%20and%20the%20flying%20wing.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rodan and the flying wing<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<b> </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>h) </b><u><b>What about the King Ghidorah?</b></u><br />
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A vast monster that was too fearsome for people to talk about seeping into collective imagery that might appear to have nothing to do with the creature. They can flip through endless non related images and make claims that it's all about King Ghidorah.<br />
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It is supposed to be obvious to the rest of the world that William Blake knew about Ghidorah or felt it through an illustration <span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">"<span style="color: #ea9999;">The Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun</span>" and somewhere in the tomorrow there will be experts to prove it to me with all the illustrations shown on the screen displays.</span><br />
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<span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">What we saw of this monster probably didn't really exist either. </span><br />
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<span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">The only monsters that exist in this world are submarines, flying wings and Osprey helicopters, along with sharks in the water and the monstrous actions of human beings and terrible weather</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLjg_myaWGoKHmzGY8j5XHBtgl_xw003FoDgFm4LMTXtv98bAJEyMQGx7t82LralxTjK1tjYfKW4XLtOYCTE9heelHpUMG_S80E7Lel1kdbWuiX-QDOo6yfpLvqGh2Q5qE8Kpwr7e91jPS2cNlv7R_4CiwCfGGWWk6uvUa1joZeGR5NYA7i_bJw2p8w/s2349/godzilla-king-of-the-monsters-king-ghidorah-1.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="2349" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLjg_myaWGoKHmzGY8j5XHBtgl_xw003FoDgFm4LMTXtv98bAJEyMQGx7t82LralxTjK1tjYfKW4XLtOYCTE9heelHpUMG_S80E7Lel1kdbWuiX-QDOo6yfpLvqGh2Q5qE8Kpwr7e91jPS2cNlv7R_4CiwCfGGWWk6uvUa1joZeGR5NYA7i_bJw2p8w/w400-h204/godzilla-king-of-the-monsters-king-ghidorah-1.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The three headed monster King Gidorah<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7YF90AsDcy8/VAbd50DGr4I/AAAAAAAANJQ/ml8r42mDhUI/s1600/2_The%2BGreat%2BRed%2BDragon%2Band%2Bthe%2BWoman%2BClothed%2Bin%2BSun.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="517" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7YF90AsDcy8/VAbd50DGr4I/AAAAAAAANJQ/ml8r42mDhUI/w401-h517/2_The%2BGreat%2BRed%2BDragon%2Band%2Bthe%2BWoman%2BClothed%2Bin%2BSun.jpg" width="401" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <i>"The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun" by William Blake</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<b> </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b> </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b> </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>i) </b><u><b>The resurrection of Millie Bobby Brown?</b></u><br />
<br />I suppose that whatever led the daughter to the house amidst the destruction taking place, might lead me to imagine she was sleep walking in this cubistic nightmare all along. </div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">How long has it been since the child took her last breath before they revived her, when they drove to the remains of the house and found her body entombed in a bath tub beneath a vast chunk of wall, but somehow magically revive her from what seemed like death. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Why wasn't she breathing and for how long? <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg337g4hsQdW8PwCa04y7UQM8mNZ3FE0v8PMGdT6G1fdlmId7wYNs_CaHyHW31_6yIDmDUJIn6EblvNiuGrJOT40rBpa-P4lSrxX96mAaJg8Jt5_dtlLbZjIMHHJjLOdjZFI_FB5uUmDl7pdR3M6v2Juu-6j7J8lKgayc6Cwf601EMJY78Bru8qovwLNA/s2560/the%20resurrection%20of%20milly%20bobby%20brown%20at%2021.46.19.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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a) <u><b>Meeting confusion in Doctor Sleep</b></u><br />
I went to see the movie Dr Sleep. If there's a book on sale, I haven't read it. I haven't even read the Shining which this is a sequel to.<br />
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In relation to the movie The Shining, first of all I didn't recognise the character Wendy Torrance that was played by Shelly Duval in the Shining. The actress Alex Essoe didn't resemble her at all<br />
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I had an idea about who the young boy Danny was supposed to be but I wasn't entirely sure. Perhaps there was a slight sense of forced denial because I didn't really want to buy into really having to know and make any connection between this film's cast and The Shining's cast because they didn't look particularly similar.<br />
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<b>b) <u>Who is who? I don't really know.</u></b> <br />
We are soon introduced to a woman who has a husband and daughter I thought that Wendy Torrance and Lucy Stone were for a while the same person, and so Wendy Torrance somewhere in the 1980s would marry David Stone, and send her son to boarding school, while becoming step mother to Abra Stone, which would mean Danny had a step sister that he seldom ever saw, and Wendy would soon find out that her step daughter was also "Shining". <br />
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However, since I didn't know how to recognise the actress who played Wendy, I soon found out that this character was actually Lucy Stone and Abra was her actual biological daughter and the scene where the she finds out about her daughter's powers was some years later when Danny was an adult.<br />
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<b>c) </b><u><b>Buildings in the square </b></u><br />
When we came to find Danny as an adult entering a town where he decides to say. there was a model version of the buildings around the central square in the central green, created by the school children as a project. I didn't know which year this was supposed to be or perhaps if the events of the Shining had taken place perhaps in the fifties or sixties and perhaps this was 1980.<br />
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Seeing this part of a model town, I wanted to see models of the models in the central square of the model town, and see models of the models of the models in the centre of that. Perhaps I would have wanted to see see models of the models of the models of the models of the models of the models ad infinitum in the centre, or just as small as they could be physically made on a microscopic level. <br />
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<b>d) <u>Years later</u></b><br />
Danny stays in the town where time leaps several years later and having had a shave looked even younger. He soon finds himself communicating with the young girl Abra as a form of telepathy through chalk board writings, and I thought she was still somewhere in 1980 talking into the future with him and that we'd find out that she had disappeared many years earlier, but in the end, it seems that he didn't know her at all, and that he wasn't related whatsoever, although they would come to meet and she would come to think of him as a sort of an uncle figure.<br />
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<b>e) </b><u><b>At the big hotel</b></u><br />
We find serving at the bar, someone who doesn't look very much like Joe Turkel. I really didn't know who the person was supposed to be. Then it dawned on me that perhaps he was supposed to be made up to look a bit like Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence, but not that much. Later in the film, it became much more obvious that this was who it was supposed to be and that revelation really bored me, I'd rather just be told that it was a man in a Halloween costume pretending to be Jack Torrence but it wasn't very good.<br />
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e) <b><u>End word</u></b><br />
There was a plot of some sort about fighting people who steal children who were "shining" and feed on their energy to become very long lived, but that bored me. I was bored by people breathing in this steam coming out of people's mouths etc. I was bored by the manner of the villains' deaths, it got to a point where it didn't really matter what what happened to the villains. I'm very easily bored by something that is supposed to be horrific in this way in movies. I probably hope to find a much more valid plot secretly buried in the film that would clear the drama with these villains aside. I didn't like the ending or the specific idea that the entities in the big hotel were these energy draining spirits who would kill off the lead villain. I was bored by the ending in general. <br />
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I don't think this film will result in documentaries being made about its meaning, buried conspiracies and what people thought was what. Actually this film almost sent me to sleep, but I remained awake, and to talk about this would give too much of the plot away because I have basically told you mostly what was the bewildering nonsense that went through my head as I tried to work out what exactly I was watching, which for me was a priceless experience. <br />
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It might be that I went to see the film looking for foggy confusion, and I found enough of it, and so I'm glad that I went to see the movie, I was bored by the villains, and if other people liked it and want to tell me how they loved it, I will be happy for them. I appreciate that the movie's budget wasn't very big. I am made aware that Stephen King liked the movie and he wasn't a fan of Kubrick's The Shining, but he liked the TV version more because it resembled his book more but I never bothered to watch it. <br />
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and thought that the house assembled in a strange way with the roof
above and underneath ought to be a flying vehicle, and I like the Close
Encounters of the Third Kind movie.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-48279486699931832182018-10-23T04:56:00.000-07:002018-10-25T05:23:56.419-07:00Seeing "First Man"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On the 21st of October 2018, I went to see First Man which I considered to be a slightlystrange film for me to see, I am a fan of space rockets and exploration having been born around the time of the first Lunar Landing. However this film featured lots of
extremely boring moments of down to Earth human drama where it seemed
that Neil Armstrong (played by someone who looked remarkably unsimilar
to the actual man) was someone with slight difficulty communicating his
inner feelings, peppered with moments of life and death situations in
rocket ships.<br />
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Trips through the darkness of space often looked
mysterious and occasionally pretty. The final moonscape might inspire <span class="text_exposed_show">some
people who see little or no reason to go back to the moon. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">I wanted
to see things to perceive as lunar ruins or robot heads in craters and
there was no chance of it, there wasn't even the feint shimmer around the moon that some blame on a supposed atmosphere around the surface that instead might be a ruin of glass canopy placed there by an ancient cicilisation or was there something extra for iMax
audiences because I only got to see it in the X-Screen. Perhaps a lot
of a sense of the details in the rather grim looking spaceship interiors
might have seemed lessened.</span><br />
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However my creative thoughts started to kick in to try to alleviate the utter banality of the film .<br />
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The child's bracelet that Armstrong left on the moon, I
mistook for a bracelet of teeth when it was first shown in the drawer and wished that
it actually was supposed to be.<br />
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There was small window that the
Armstrong character pulled the curtain/drape across at a funeral that I
wished was a long hundred metre shaft or one going off into infinity
with multiple curtains/drapes being pulled across it at the same time
and he realised that this would never be so. <br />
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When the Neil Armstrong character suddenly played with one of his sons
holding him horizontally and doing things such as sticking his head in
the fridge etc, I thought that the boy needed a docking port on top of
his head and various other places such as the fridge interior to make
it seem as if Neil was practising his Apollo docking with the Eagle
routine. <br />
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<span data-offset-key="6l19v-0-0"><span data-text="true">Perhaps a test rocket capsule in the film could be used as an oversized kitchen oven for cooking astronauts. Perhaps, the story every night would be that the Neil Armstrong should fear the idea of astronauts being baked inside the kitchen cook and then one day wake up in the middle of the night with the urge to open the oven door, crawl inside and find himself in the Eagle 11 capsule connected with the Eagle lander.</span></span><br />
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Certain papers that the Armstrong character was being handed all were blurred to the camera lens and I hoped that this meant he was living in a fake reality loosely created by extra-terrestrials based on his existence on Earth that saw no reason to make the contents of the papers clear in this loose reproduction.<br />
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The moments of fear took the form of astronauts caught in spinning rockets and the hideous shaking of the rocket as it headed up through the heavens into the darkness of space accompanied with thunderous noise<br />
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People who bring
very young restless children who keep loudly asking questions such as
why so-and-so is crying etc and have no interest in rocket ships, might
be advised to choose another film for the sake of the child because the
film is not very entertaining in that way and the rocket ship scenes
area often very very noisy and nightmarish. I was thankful when a
couple with their daughter sitting nearby did finally leave half way
through.<br />
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Obviously I'll have to see it again but on the iMax, especially to make sure that there was nothing of the slightest bit of interest on the moon. Perhaps I need to take a dozen year restless five year old children with me just to see make sure there isn't one of them who would enjoy the movie.</div>
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<b>29th September 2017</b> A Tiawanese movie "The Road To Mandalay" finally gets a nationwide release in England over a year after it was initially released in its own country<br />
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<b>30th September 2017</b>. It's revealed on video that Boris Johnson embarassed himself by quoting lines from the Rudyard Kiplings poem The Road to Mandalay before live camera, while visiting a temple during a state visit Myanmar. <br />
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<b>1st October 2017.</b> A mass shooting takes place in Las Vegas from the Mandalay Bay hotel, where one man is believed to have shot 59 people dead amongst a crowd of concert goers.<br />
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Burma on one day and a mass shooting from Mandalay Bay Hotel another." </span></span></li>
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<b>16th October 2017</b>, Bjork takes a potshot as Lars Von Trier accusing him of sexual harrassment, and the following day, Von Trier denied the allegation. I don't wish to really say that this has anything to do with the Mandalay shootings but in a dream like way it's a bit odd<br />
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<b>a) <u>Before hand</u></b><br />
When I watched the trailer, I started wanting to fuse dinosaurs with helicopter wreckage, and soon began to notice how the posters echoed the layout of some of the HR Giger paintings and as I began to compare them to Giger's Necronom series, I found that nearly all of them in some way did. What was this all about, was there a secret relationship between the work of the artist and the intentions behind the film, or was it just, of course in this lost reality of the modern world, there's very little to cling onto as a cultural backbone, and looking for that in the works , namely the Necronom series, of the now deceased HR Giger is the way to keep on going, until a new visionary begins to appear<br />
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On 10th June 2018, I managed to see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and almost enjoyed on certain levels, but my mind was taking me to another level of the movie trying to escape from the banality of the film. I've never really taken that much to these Jurassic Park and World films, although I very much like the scene in Jurassic World where a man travels on his motorcycle through the forest along side the Velociraptors, hunting for the new hybrid giant dinosaur<br />
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It might be pretty much pointless in having me describe the film itself because talking about it seems pointless, other than it becomes one scenario that ridiculously transforms into another scenario which transforms into another scenario following an idiot plot strategy. I felt sorry for all of the dinosaurs, even the most vicious ones such as the imitation. Tyrannosaurus Rex for having been born into this world with nowhere much to go. As we know from the Jurassic Park movies, they're merely genetic composits based on the original creatures rather than real dinosaurs resurrected from those ancient times. <br />
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Save the dinosaurs from the volcano plot transforms into someone wants any old excuse to get hold of the dinosaurs and make money out of them transforms into suddenly the dinosaurs get released unto the world. Why hadn't the people who were planning to transfer the dinosaurs to a safe location examined the progress of the volcano earlier? The plot might as well have an abstract dream like relevance that doesn't necessarily need to make sense other than get the film flowing, near enough playing with the audience's mind and pulling emotional strings for the hell of it.<br />
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Perhaps they did it far better with the first Alien movie where the final script after having gone through numerous bizarre transformations had to be pulled together by Dan O'Bannon from a mishmash of various pieces rewritten by Giler and Hill. Where the attempt to answer an SOS
turns into the Company plot where an android is trying to smuggle an
alien life form back to Earth for commerce before that scenario goes out
of control. Here the surprise is that the child pushes the button to unleash the dinosaurs onto the outside world, believing that these genetic constructs based on dinosaurs have the right to live.<br />
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One male character appears to scream in a high voice every time a dinosaur starts trying to chase him, and I really found this irritating.<br />
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James Cromwell plays the brother of the character played by Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park. Perhaps this made me cringe although Cromwell is a fine actor, but the way he becomes part of the plot seems ridiculous.<br />
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I have to say that the moment we are introduced to the Indoraptor and
see the whole thing lit up, I was rather bored by its design. and I was
bored to see how an idiot man opens the cage to extract a tooth for his necklace and in turn gets
eaten.<br />
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Later we find that the Indoraptor is being envisioned as a sort of Nosferatu by
the film maker who appears to certain scenes on the film by that name , this idea made me cringe because, there was the young
girl after all she had been through running away from this beast, hiding
upstairs under a blanket without taking any action. But when the
creature entered her house, I noticed that we started to loose
understanding of which was was up and down. <i>(Afterwards I noticed
that there's the new poster for the film Hereditary which seemed to show
a house with no up or down and the roof on both sides)</i><br />
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I found the final fight between the Indoraptor and the humans to be rather uninteresting, as if it showed the creature off to be another moronic creation, once it finally was killed impaled on the horns of a tricarotops skull, it didn't interest me to see it but as memories became distant, perhaps I wanted to imagine that this Indoraptor was another loose Alien ripoff monster, but this scene of death, <br />
I wanted to imagine this as strange idol formed from multiple non human bodies, and perhaps loosely thoughts would start to want to reshape it into an imitation of Giger's Necronom V with body parts being pierced by horn like structures, before becoming a hideous tableau of trophies to be shoved into the corner of a Predator ship, and someone will have been trying to plan this for longer than anyone could imagine as a sacrificial ritual to release an unnamed god. If no one else out there wants to biomechanise this scene, perhaps it's up to me to produce endless sketches of such a thing as the most terrible of faux-Giger drawings designed to lead nowhere and interest no one for more than five seconds<br />
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It didn't interest me to know that the young girl was a clone of the daughter of the James Cromwell's man who gets suffocated by Ralph Spall's character who spoke with an American accent that belonged to some sort of British comedy show<i>.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>I'm afraid that I find it hard to sit back and enjoy this sort of thing, while perhaps I might realise that I'm surrounded by numerous dozens of people sitting back and enjoying it all the way through, as if they've already been hypnotised into accepting everything that they see in it. Perhaps there's something that they put in the diet soda and the popcorn, neither of which I bother with.<i><br /></i><br />
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<b>c) <u>Conjuring inner stories out of the darkness</u></b><u><b></b></u><br />
When a young girl is glimpsed in the film running around upstairs, my
first idea was that she ought to be a mutant child who was part dinosaur
and this would be obvious later, and once we get to see this, this
should ruin the film completely. <br />
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When they showed the dinosaur museum, my biggest fear perhaps was the idea of one of these dinosaur exhibits coming alive rather in the manner of some sort of ghostly waxworks museum instead of the creatures that were supposed to be actual dinosaurs running around the mansion.<br />
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Later we see the girl behind the glass and the jaws of the Indoraptor coming at her reflected on the glass before her face, as if for half a moment she were transforming into this mutant dinosaur child I had half imagined.<br />
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When she discovers the photo of the woman that she believes to be her mother in her grandfather's journal, perhaps I expected her to find photos of half fossilised dinosaur/human mutants painfully fused together in absurd sex positions , it's difficult to work out whether a limb from one should be a jaw, spine or rib of the other, and this turns out to be the truth of what her grandfather must have been shockingly into in his private life, bringing together people form across the world to pay money to see these mutant orgies, or coming long distances to see drawings of the grandfather explosing his male member as it transforms into some sort of body scaly spiny part of a vast ancient reptile.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-75879207792691955122018-01-29T02:05:00.002-08:002018-08-22T22:06:52.023-07:00Trump interview by Piers Morgan as a secret Carmen Miranda revival night<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.co.uk/p/tv-wmm.html">TV Wmm</a><br />
and<br />
<a href="https://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.co.uk/p/visionary-wmm.html">Paranoiac Critical Wmm</a><br />
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Many thanks to Mr D. Hughes for pointing out on Twitter the silliness of the "ITV Exclusive" symbol.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-6500942413797096292017-10-17T02:20:00.000-07:002018-01-29T02:24:58.271-08:00Hilary the Rhino<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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happy that Hilary Clinton mentions in a Guardian interview that she is
looking for female leaders, but her use of words and wardrobe got Wmm
thinking. </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-31355497328957932032017-05-06T04:21:00.004-07:002021-04-19T08:18:22.987-07:00 "Mandela Effect" vs "Mandela Effect"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is probably where Wmm takes a stand against the collective consciousness by the looks of it:<br />
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The next time you hear someone mention the term "Mandela Effect" as
being coined by Fiona Broome to describe a collective false memory or
alternate reality, please remember that Ms Broome hijacked the term
whatever you think about the success of Nelson Mandela's aims or how ever
many times people think that he died!<br />
<br />
Perhaps there are memories from parallel universes coming through <span class="text_exposed_show">from wherever but don't make the use of this "Mandela Effect" term any more confusing.</span><br />
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A reasonable definition of the original use of the term can be found in
this paragraph below from "Leadership for a Better World: Understanding
the Social Change Model of Leadership Development" By Susan R. Komives
and Wendy Wagner (hopefully it's not from a no longer existing parallel
universe)<br />
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"Porras, Emery, and Thompson (2007) describe a concept
they call the “Mandela Effect,” “when you can create enduring success
not because you are perfect or lucky but because you have the courage to
do what matters to you."(p2 of Success built to last: Creating a life
that matters.) The Mandela Effect derives its name from Nelson Mandela,
who led the sometimes violent struggle against apartheid in South
Africa. Following his release from 27 years in prison, he convinced
those involved in the anti-apartheid movement to change from a hostile
approach to one of reconciliation and healing. This was not easy. It was
a risky proposition and took great political skill to convince his
followers to change tactics. Rather than continue the anger that was
tearing the country apart, his ability to convince the African National
Congress to negotiate with South Africa's White elite resulted in the
first multiracial democracy in South Africa. The lesson of the Mandela
Effect is that the power to create lasting change results, in part, from
a person's deepest values being reflected in his actions."</div>
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If
these ideas about memories from a parallel universe out to be as a
result of Nelson Mandela's attempts to change Apartheid, then
ignore this message, but otherwise you can tell Ms Broome where to stick
it! </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">For the original use of "Mandela Effect" in reference to Nelson Mandela's courage to change the apartheid, see:<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Guardian, 2003 -<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/oct/07/rugbyunion.rugbyworldcup20033">Mandela magic inspires Springboks</a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">The Independant, 2011 - <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/playing-the-enemy-by-john-carlin-926490.html">Playing The Enemy, by John Carlin</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;">Evening Standard , 2012 - <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/nelson-s-victory-how-mandela-won-over-south-africa-6794082.html ">Nelson’s victory: How Mandela won over South Africa</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">The Economist, 2013 - <a href="https://www.economist.com/unknown/2013/12/05/the-mandela-effect ">The Mandela effect</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><cite class="iUh30 Zu0yb qLRx3b tjvcx">apnews.com, 2013 -<span class="dyjrff qzEoUe"></span></cite> <a href=" Vast sporting tributes for Nelson Mandela - AP News https://apnews.com › ...">Vast sporting tributes for Nelson Mandela - AP News</a></li><li><div class="yuRUbf"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Irish Times, 2017 - <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/siya-kolisi-and-south-africa-speaking-to-the-hope-of-1995-1.3678315">Siya Kolisi and South Africa speaking to the hope of 1995</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></span></span></div></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">World Rugby, 2017</span> - <a href="https://www.world.rugby/news/236061">RWC 2019 pool draw spotlight: South Africa</a></span></li><li><div class="yuRUbf"><span style="font-size: small;">sarugbytravel.com, 2018 - </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.sarugbytravel.com/look-back-previous-world-cup-journeys/ ">A look back at previous World Cup journeys</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><br /></div><div class="yuRUbf"> </div><br /><br /><div class="yuRUbf"> <cite class="iUh30 Zu0yb qLRx3b tjvcx"></cite><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre"><cite class="iUh30 Zu0yb qLRx3b tjvcx"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe"><br /></span></cite></div><div class="B6fmyf"><div class="TbwUpd"><cite class="iUh30 Zu0yb qLRx3b tjvcx"><span class="dyjrff qzEoUe"></span></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc"><span><br /></span></div></div></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h3> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/nelson-s-victory-how-mandela-won-over-south-africa-6794082.html "></a></span><h1 class="articleHeader__title"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1> <br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-29381549876158910592016-04-10T13:36:00.001-07:002016-04-10T15:02:13.940-07:00Hardcore Henry <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>a)</b>
Wmm very much enjoyed the Hardcore Henry movie with it's continuous
slaughter and of course, Sharlto Copley made the film the zany piece of
weirdness that it was, but seeing that Timur Bekmambetov as producer of
the movie, it seems that must have had something to do with its success well.
The scifi plot made from recognisable elements was satisfying enough to
go with this action piece. Probably watching the movie started to fire
Wmm's brain up in a strange way as if the whole th<span class="text_exposed_show">ing
was some sort of weird drug trip, although the movie was supposed to be
like a computer game from the player's view, which seemed to make it
something near to a found footage movie but much more successful. Wmm has no particular strange other view about the film while seeing it, other than he enjoyed it and loved Sharlto Copley's performance, thought it just worked remarkably well.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><b>b)</b>
Once Wmm got to his destination station homeward bound, he noticed a
foldable knife on the pavement outside the KFC in the highstreet and
then turning the corner he noticed that two men and a young boy were
walking out of a side road and rolled a car tire across a busy road,
which luckily didn't go rolling into the front of a passing car. Wmm
suddenly found himself walking near to these people and one had with him
a bag of fish and chips and Wmm's own mind began to merge the foldable
knife with the fish in batter and imagine the man with the food suddenly
pulling out a foldable Cronenbergundian weapon made from a spine spine
and other fish bones unnatural to a cod in batter's own skeleton, to
attack him with and this never happened in reality of course, but it
always a wonder to have such strange ideas. Obvious the other man and
the young boy didn't start mutating into anything vicious either, Wmm
didn't have his foot bitten off by the child.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-18257566582902409482016-02-07T05:56:00.000-08:002016-02-10T16:55:42.688-08:00The Revenant<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.co.uk/p/cinema-wmm.html">Cinema Wmm</a></span></div>
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<b>a)</b> <b><u>Intention to see it</u></b><br />
The plan to see Revenant went ahead a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy . Was not particularly a fan of the idea of having
to sit through the movie, but then the pile of cow skulls seem to be
the pulling point in the trailer. Perhaps the rough comparisons to
Tarkovsky have also caught the eyes by the corner.<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><b>b)<u> Brief report of the movie</u></b></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Having seen it,
indeed it certainly looked at if the director was having a bit of a
Tarkovsky obsession just to balance out the bloody grueling misery of
the movie. Quite honestly it didn't matter who was slaughtered or how
many after a while, but the photography was often very beautiful and
there were some dream scenes.</span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>c) <u>Fragmented reveries of SPOILERS after The Revenant: </u></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">However
there were so many dead bodies of one kind or another, animal and human
and at times the distinction between the different corpses in various
quick shots was not entirely clear so the brain began to purposely
misremember that there were corpses part
human and part deer everywhere, that the new way for someone to ride a
horse was to hide inside it as if the horse contained a special interior
womb like space for humans to hide in. Perhaps actually I even wanted to think that it was Tom Hardy's character who became disemboweled and Leni di Caprio hid naked inside his emptied corpse for shelter. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">There were many other
fragmented associations that could be made by mind that would like to
mis-remember things and completely stretch things and stick things
together in ways completely inappropriate.</span></span> </span></span><span data-offset-key="d1ke5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Perhaps the horse falling down the side of a cliff just past a tree to its death might suddenly become confused with a memory of an American native being shot out of a tree to his death to the extent that the horse must have landed in the tree but earlier was seen hiding in the tree and was then shot dead itself. Perhaps although Tom gets a finger chopped off, I might imagine the whole arm with fingers being cut into pieces and being stuck back together again and Tom's corpse ought to have been used as a sledge in the icy wastelands, and this might be manifesting through the scene where Leni's character uses a branch to prop up the dead body of another character Captan Andrew Harvey. Perhaps Leni's character might even had found a hollow in the corpse of his son to take shelter in or at least bury his face in.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="d1ke5-0-0"><span data-text="true">d) <u><b>Chains of mental sodomy </b></u></span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="d1ke5-0-0"><span data-text="true">The movie stretches the imagination by forcing one to want to get away from it while sitting through to the end. Because of these strange disconnected assocations one can make, it seems that the earlier reports about the trailer showing the bear sodomising Leo DiCaprio might as well be perceived as part of the whole film experience although it certainly didn't happen as what was on the screen. If someone told me that they thought that in the scene where Leo saves the American native woman, he saw the bear and then Leo cutting his way out of the body of the bear to reveal it to be a mysterious suit and when there was the American native woman being sodomised by a Frenchman and he comes up behind the Frenchman with a knife, and really what was happening was that the beat was sodomising Leo while he was sodomising the Frenchman who was sodomising the </span></span><span data-offset-key="d1ke5-0-0"><span data-text="true">American native woman all at the same time, it might have been happening in some way.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-5765273484142761812016-02-06T07:43:00.001-08:002016-02-09T01:20:54.950-08:00Millenium Falcon inspired by Tutenkhamun's jewellry ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>a)</b> A slightly amusing piece of news recently in the Daily Mail about how
ancient small scarab pendant found looked like a Star Wars Millennium
Falcon, (See: <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3431618/Ancient-Egyptian-scarab-seal-extinct-volcano-Israel-3-500-year-old-carving-represents-Pharaoh-Thutmose-III-resembles-Millennium-Falcon.html#ixzz3zP1nqZjC">Ancient Egyptian scarab seal is found on extinct volcano in Israel: 3,500-year-old carving represents Pharaoh Thutmose III (and it resembles the Millennium Falcon)</a> However it forced me to cast my mind back in time and take note of what this space ship design was all about. </span><br />
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<b>b) </b>However the other side to that is that once Lucas seemed to
have come up with a hamburger with an olive idea for the space ship and a bite taken out of the front as a
beginning point, it's likely that an Egyptian pendant perhaps a falcon
pendant or this famous particular scarab pectoral with "desert glass"
scarab belonging to Tutenkhamun would have served as inspi<span class="text_exposed_show">ration
for developing the final ship with all the details of its outer
structure. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><b>c) </b></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "palatino";">Tutankhamun's Falcon Earrings
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Another component from the Tutenkhamun jewelry to observe are the </span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">gold Falcon ear rings which were displayed in 1976 as part of the same collection</span>. Perhaps compare the circle on top of the spacecraft where the gun is found with the along with the long rectangle leading up to the front of the ship, to the bird with its ring display if wings and its long tail, and the head becomes the upper laser cannon</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><b>d) </b>The name Millennium Falcon entered </span><span class="text_exposed_show">the revised fourth draft of the script for Star Wars, dated March 1976. What is interesting about the name is the fact that the Ancient Egyptians had this idea of the "boat of a
thousand years" (sometimes the number could be a million years, but would also represent an uncalculable span of time) which carried the falcon headed god Ra, and then
Millennium means a thousand. This pendant also inspired the likes of HR
Giger around that general time with works such as Necronom II. </span><br />
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<b>e)</b> The piece of jewelry also appears to have partially inspired a painting of a demonic face by HR Giger called Necronom II in 1976 , a painting that would inspire the face of the monster in the 1979 movie Alien.<i><b> </b></i><br />
<i><b>( See; <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1976/12/necronom-ii-inspired-by-egyptian-winged.html">Necronom II: Inspired by Egyptian winged scarab</a> and </b></i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/paintings-that-inspired-design-of-alien.html">Paintings that inspired the design of the Alien</a> at the Alienexplorations blog)</b></i></span><br />
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<b>f)</b> 1976 was the year that the The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition
started off in America at the National Gallery of Art and this would
have lead to magazine articles across the world since it was all about
what was happening in America and an exhibition catalogue that year. And
so this would have led the Millennium Falcon Designer and Giger finding
decent images of the scarab pectoral presented before their eyes.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-71143204477737370352016-01-17T06:04:00.000-08:002016-01-17T06:04:09.968-08:00Poltergeist remake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a) Finally watched the Poltergeist remake, noticing the elongated
quality of both the nose of the boy and the mother, and seeing the clown
doll on the cover of the DVD that has a pullable nose connected by
string, and still the question arises if this is Pinocchigeist as ever.<br />
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b) An incredibly pointless remake on the verge of inducing nausea. The
way the little girl this time uttered the words "They're here" just
seemed completely out of context other than to offer people a r<span class="text_exposed_show">eminder
of the original film. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">c) The other side might interest people who liked
movies such as Pulse, crammed with lost decayed souls. Perhaps this
vision of the other side almost seemed interesting for half a moment
probably because one could only see it in quick flashes and it would
most likely have all been CGI anyway. </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show">A trip into the other dimension was sadly lacking in the original Poltergeist movie and its sequel and then what the original mentally evoked in perhaps would have been much better than this dark world filled with zombies.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show"></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">d) Perhaps it's all designed to make
the original Poltergeist movie seem ten or twenty times better.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-73211897764667621432016-01-03T06:53:00.002-08:002016-01-03T06:53:46.435-08:00New Years day mental transformations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wmm admits that on New Years day, when crossing a road from the cafe in central Pinner to
the bus stop, mistook a folded up newspaper on the side of road for a
decomposing plucked supermarket turkey.<br />
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And getting to the bus stop, he
saw some chicken bones still with some bits of flesh, scattered around
the pavement left behind by a bunch of youths who had been filling their
faces with fried chicken, and mistook them for toy deformed plastic
soldiers.<br />
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The rounded ends of the chicken bones mental<span class="text_exposed_show">ly
transformed into bulging rounded helmets of the toy soldiers that as
impressions of humanoid forms were progressively become more and more
deformed by the second until they were just more easy to identify as
bones on a wet street dimly lit by streetlights and then again, this sense of certainty would at various half moments
easily fade away.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-65389802458081105142015-12-21T05:27:00.001-08:002015-12-21T16:12:58.925-08:00Star Bores: The Bore Awakens/The Bores Awaken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>First impressions (21st December 2015)</b><br />
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<b>a)</b> <u><b>Darth Kretin for added gameplay</b></u><br />
I am a great fan of Star Wars but this film made me cringe most of the way through.Kylo Wren is a mentally challenged individual who for some odd reason wears a mask and is an apprentice for the a dark being who looks like an oversized Gollum sitting on a throne, played by the actor who played Gollum in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films. He can throw people around and throttle them with the force, but when it comes to fighting with the light sabre, even a stormtrooper who hasn't had much battle experience, but worked in sanitation could even hold his own against this agent of the Sith for a few rounds. Kylo is suddenly beaten down by a woman named Rey who suddenly discovers her ability to use the force coming from nowhere, when she holds the light sabre for the first time. It feels as if anyone could use a lightsabre in this story as if they were videogame characters, and gain points in battle. For some reason, this Kylo's menace had sent Luke into hiding for some years and one wonders how it could be that Luke couldn't handle this Kylo unless he wanted to simply stop himself from killing or maiming this individual.The giant gollum character appeared to be very forgiving for all of Darth Kretin's errors such as leaving the BB-8 bringing with him a woman who only had a memory of the map. The biggest question might be the nature of the game plan and reading what it must say in the rule book about the story. So for the sequel, Kylo's connection with the Sith would have to be upgraded for him to be an entity with any effect and eventually he will surely become Darth Kretin if a Darth at all, but a user of the force in the manner of a Jedi just with a few moments of realisation will obviously beat him whatever. Gameplay also involved trying out flying a Millenium Falcon and operating the cannons with perhaps little or no experience and crashing it all over the place and escaping from TIE fighters in an already handicapped state. Further battles were fought with all the enthusiasm of videogamers on their videogame consols. If one loves videogames then this might be fine for many people, of course they might be used to the style of film making because of this.<br />
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<b>b) <u>Big Macs and MacGuffins</u></b><br />
I admit that the others around me were enjoying the movie a lot more than I was, laughing at all the jokes which I didn't really relate to. The actors as their characters are all fine and the new robot BB8 is great. Perhaps the idea that Finn was supposed to be a stormtrooper who went AWOL made the whole idea of stormtroopers seem rather less serious than they had ever been, as if they hadn't been trained at all to carry out the tasks they're supposed to, let alone told about what the objectives of The First Order are, but Boyega was fine in his role. Now stormtroopers can be of all sizes and seemed laughable to look at, Boyega seemed too short to be Stormtrooper with his thick helment too big for him, being around the same height as Mark Hamill who played Luke Skywalker who was a little short for a Stormtrooper. Captain Phasma in her brilliant metallic armour has been used very pointlessly, easily overcome. <span class="st">Max Von Sydow as a character at the beginning seemed all very pointless as well. The designs for the new X-fighter and Tie-Fighters were fine as well as the tie-fighter launch bay but we had seen this before basically.</span><b> </b>Three main explosions in the film to keep people's brains occupied, when the tie fighter sinks into the sand, when the building with the alien cantina inside is bombed and when the Starkiller base is destroyed in the usual manner by the rebels with a new name. This obviously kept all the people excited and alert. They might as well have three paper bags full of air being popped through the movie to keep the audience alert. R2D2 is out of action in the movie until a cloth is pulled away to introduce him into the film and make some use out of him. Abrams loves to stuff an overinflated MacGuffin into anywhere he can squeeze it no matter how it bends anything around it out of shape. The Millenium Falcon travels through a strange tunnel in the film that makes it look as if it was likely to run into the Tardis. Obviously looking forwards to episode 8.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-17368741388119813542015-08-30T04:01:00.001-07:002015-12-21T07:11:17.266-08:00Jenniferamy Schlumawrence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Exploring the extremes of the banality of the news that Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence are writing a script together. The fear that when they finish writing their script together, the merger will be complete, Jenniferamy Schlumawrence</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-72667234857690720612015-08-14T05:41:00.001-07:002015-08-15T05:26:11.790-07:00JG Ballard on Surrealism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>leading from </b></span></div>
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<a href="http://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/jg-ballard-and-inner-space.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>J G Ballard and Inner Space</b></span></a><br />
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a) <u><b>Early precursors of inner space</b></u><br />
So the
early precursors or even the iconographers of Inner Space were
surrealist painters with their landscapes of the soul, he would mention
the names of Tanguy, de Chirico, Dali and Max Ernst among others, all
during their most creative periods were concerned with the discovery of
images in which the internal and the external reality meet and fuse.
They were one of the few schools of thought of painting that embraced
the imagination without any restraints whatsoever, but also embrace the
imagination within the terms of the scientific language.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>b)</b> <u><b>What Surrealism did</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
Surrealism, the events of the interior world of the psyche are
represented in terms of commonplace situations. In fantastic art, such
as Breugel and Bosch, one had the nightmare represented extremely well,
chariots of demons and screaming arch-angels and all the materials of
horror, but what one doesn't have there is what Surrealism has, the
representation of the inner world of the mind in terms of ordinary
objects, such as tables, chairs and telephones</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>c) <u>Surrealism as a creative reminder</u></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There was the possibility in Ballard's view that his own writing was nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> The
works of the Surrealists were not actually an a great inspiration on his
writings, but reminders that the interior landscapes extended beyond
the borders of his own head, they were valid for a great number of
people and they confirmed his own hazy views. Despite the fact felt that
he would have written the same way with or
without the Surrealist painters, he regarded surrealist painters as
having a far bigger influence of him
than any writers had done. Ballard assumed that he looked back on Shanghai and the war there as if it were part of some huge nightmare tableau that revealed itself in a violent and gaudy way that remade the world that one found in surrealism. Perhaps he had been truing to return to the Shanghai landscape, to some sort of truth that he glimpse there and in all his fiction, and so it seemed that he used the techniques of surrealism to remake the present into something at least consonant with with past</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>d)</b> <u><b>Salvador Dali's Surrealism</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As for Dali, from Ballard's
view, he had created a completely new landscape out of the concepts of
Freudian psychology. No other painter that he knew of had so well
represented the world of the Oedipus complex, of people's childhood
anxieties, about memory, always done within the context of the 20th
Century. Also Dali''s paintings with their soft watches and minatory
luminous beaches, are of almost magical potency, suffused by a curious
ambivalence that Ballard found that one could see only in the serpentine
faces in the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>e) <u>Surrealism unlike dreams</u></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It was
for Ballard, a curious thing that the landscapes of these painters, and
of Dali in particular, are often referred to as dream-like , when in
fact they must bear no resemblance to the vast majority of dreams, which
in general take place within confined indoor settings, a cross between
Kafka and Mrs Dale's Diary, and where fantastic images, such as singing
flowers or sonic sculptures, appear as infrequently as they do in
reality. The false identification, and the awareness of the fact that
the landscapes and themes are reflections of some interior reality
within human minds, was a pointer to the importance of speculative
fantasy in the Twentieth Century, an era of Hiroshima and Cape
Canaveral. Back in the '40s and '50, he thought that the Surrealism was
the most important enterprise that England had ever embarked on and he
still did, to the point of considering it the biggest adventure of that
century.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>f)</b> <b><u>Surrealism's relationship with science fiction</u></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Surrealism may have seemed to be inspired by
fantasy for many, but
this was not true. It seemed to him as if Science Fiction and
Surrealism had a great deal in common. They both represented to him a
marriage between reason and unreason. In both you have science as sort of quantifying elements.
In both science fiction and surrealism the basic source of imagination
is one's own mind rather than the external world. Both are the perfect
model for dealing with the facts of the Twentieth Century and literally opened windows on the real world.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>g) <u>Interests of the surrealists</u></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
surrealists were all very interested in science,
in optics, and photography and their main inspiration was
psychoanalysis which to Ballard was the perfect scientific mythology for
the investigation of the imagination. Ballard found that this
combination of science and the
imagination was very close to what he wanted to do as a writer and of it
course had many
affinities with science fiction itself. He was also found that the
novels of writers like Kafka and Burroughs, were very much in tune with
the surrealists, as well as films such as Alphaville and Last Year at
Marienbad.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>h) <u>References to Surrealists in The Drowned World</u></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">When he would come to write his book The
Drowned World, he would come to make references to the Surrealists in
his novel, but his publisher Viktor Gollancz wanted him to delete the
references because it would demean what they thought was the seriousness
of the book. It would have been okay to reference to Impressionists or
even American Pop creators who were just coming up, but the Surrealists
were considered digusting<i>.</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i> </i></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>i)</b> <u><b>Late 20th Century Surrealism</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">However towards end of the 20th Century , he felt that the only surrealists around were the psychopaths.</span></span></span><br />
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<b>Source Quotes</b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b>Dr Christopher Evans:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Is this phrase, Inner Space, you coined
it, I think, it's talking about er, inward looking rather than outward
looking, that's an over simplification</span><br />
<b>J G Ballard: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes,
I was interested, I was, partly it was a slogan, I mean it was a sort
of, I flew a few, you know, I was flying a kite, ahm, but I, I meant it
seriously. What I meant was, that, I, I thought that these sort of
areas, that, that science fiction should turn its attention to, were,
was, well, the sort of areas, in which, where its readers, er, were in
fact, were, were living in their ordinary lives, that I was, I was
talking, I was talking about a world... by Inner Space, I meant a world,
um, or, or those areas of reality that have been, as it were, remade by
the mind and I mean, you see, a sort of an early precursor if you like
of Inner Space, you'd see, um, the novels of Kafka, let's say or various
very much the same surrealist, surrealist painters, where there's the
landscapes of the soul and so on, um , in films like</span> (Last Year At)
<span style="color: #ea9999;">Marienbad and er, Alphaville, in the novels of William Burroughs, um. </span></b></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Writers in Conversation- J G Ballard)</span></b></b></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><i><b><i><i><b> </b></i></i></b></i></i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><i><b><i><i><b>JGBallard:</b></i></i></b></i></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"> I've always
been very interested in the Surrealists, I think primarily
because they're one of the few schools of painting that embrace the
imagination without any restraints whatever, but also embrace the
imagination within the terms of the scientific language. The Surrealists
were interested in optics and all sorts of scientific advances. This
climaxed, of course, in psychoanalysis, which was the perfect scientific
mythology, if you like, for the investigation of the imagination. And
this marriage of science and imagination seemed very close to what I
wanted to do as a writer, what 1 was doing as a writer. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://jgballard.ca/media/1973_spring_evergreen_review.html">http://jgballard.ca/media/1973_spring_evergreen_review.html</a>)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b>JGBallard: </b></i></i></span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i>If
you look at that bottom row of books, apart from the Francis Bacon,
that's my brain laid out there - all those surrealist texts. I still
feel surrealism. In the '40s, '50s and even the early '60s, you could
not mention the surrealists without laying yourself open (in certain
literate circles) to the charge of of the crudest sensationalism. Take
someone like Genesis P. Orridge, whom I don't know and never had met. By
analogy. most people over here, whether writing for the serious
newspapers like the Observer or the Sunday or NME - would, let's face
it, look down on him: '<span style="color: #e06666;">boring freake who hasn't got anything to say... pain in the ass... why doesn't he go away. don't refer to him</span>'.</i></i></span></span></i></i></span><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i> </i></i></span></i></i></span></i></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i> </i></i></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(RE/SEARCH 8/9 p23)</span></b></i></i></span></i></i></span></i></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b>JGBallard:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Now
that's how most people in the '40s and '50s looked at the surrealists-
there's no question about that, anybody will confirm that. I can
remember that well into the mid '60s to many any reference to the
surrealists was inviting reprehension. You still get a hint of that in
references to Dali - in intellectual circles Dali is a
sensation-mongering exhibitionist who works on a lurid and vulgar state.
That's the attitude about all surrealists! </span></i></i></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i> </i></i></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(RE/SEARCH 8/9 p23)</span></b></i></i></span></i></i></span></i></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i>JGBallard: </i></i></span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Surrealism
, which has a way of looking at the world as an imaginative enterprise,
was regarded in the '40s and '50s in exactly that light. In my first
novel, The Drowned World, I put in a number of references to the
surrealists. I remember the publisher, Viktor Gollancz, wanted me to
delete these references because they felt my novel was serious, and that
diminished my book by referencing the surrealists. I mean it would have
been quite all right to mention the Impressionists, or even the
American Pop creators who were just coming up - you know, Warhol
& Co - but the Surrealists were disgusting! In the '40s and
'50s, I thought that surrealism was the most important imaginative
enterprise this country has embarked on. And I still do. For me the
paintings of the surrealists have opened windows on the real world and I
don't mean that as any literary conceit. I mean that literally. </span></i></i></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(RE/SEARCH 8/9 p23)</span></b></i></i></span></i></i></span></i></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i>JGBallard:</i></i></span></b></i></i></span></span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="color: #ea9999;">My
earliest three or four novel which are more explicitly science fiction
or heavily influenced by the surrealists (Max Ernst, Dali) and also the
symbolist painters like Gustav Moreau. Once you get to the Atrocity
Exhibition, Crash, High Rise and so on, they're sort of technological
books set in the present day - you've got all the imagery that the
titles themselves are about. You name it everything from car crashes to
Kennedy assassinations, to high rises to motorways. </span></span></span></i></i></span></i></i></span></i></i></span><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i> </i></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(RE/SEARCH 8/9 p32)</span></b></i></i></span></i></i></span></i></i></span></li>
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INTERVIEWER:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> Your work also seems tremendously influenced by the visual arts.</span>
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BALLARD:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.</span>
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the surrealists seem to have fired your imagination the most.</span>
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BALLARD:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> Yes, the surrealists have been a tremendous influence on me, though,
strictly speaking, corroboration is the right word. The surrealists show
how the world can be remade by the mind. In Odilon Redon’s phrase, they
place the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible. They’ve
certainly played a very large part in my life, far more so than any
other writer I know.</span>
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BALLARD: <span style="color: #ea9999;">It has always puzzled me, because there were no museums in the Shanghai where I was brought up.</span>
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BALLARD:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> I assume that I looked back on Shanghai and the war there as if it
were part of some huge nightmare tableau that revealed itself in a
violent and gaudy way . . . that remade world that one finds in
surrealism. Perhaps I’ve always been trying to return to the Shanghai
landscape, to some sort of truth that I glimpsed there. I think that in
all my fiction, I’ve used the techniques of surrealism to remake the
present into something at least consonant with the past.</span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2929/the-art-of-fiction-no-85-j-g-ballard"> (http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2929/the-art-of-fiction-no-85-j-g-ballard</a></span></b></i></i></span></i></i></span></i></i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><i><b>JG Ballard:</b> </i></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">The only surrealists around these days are psychopaths</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span>(</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">See: <a href="http://jgballard.ca/media/1988_april25_time_magazine.html">http://jgballard.ca/media/1988_april25_time_magazine.html )</a></span></i></i></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-33576292151387420102015-08-13T03:31:00.000-07:002015-08-13T03:35:19.904-07:00Signs of the inner world in the disaster zone of Myanmar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a) I am seeing the flooding of Myanmar, I see this eatery in the top photo here and I could obviously imagine such a restaurant concept as seen in the photo hitting the
English streets in the decades to come and become completely normal at
various parts of the year, as long as one doesn't mind wearing waders. I am already sitting somewhere in a dreamworld transporting it to England, up to my knees in this water. It's good to see how people are maintaining some sort of existence in
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b) Other images of the flooding open my mind up to a world where the people are still surviving, sitting in restaurants, grocery shops still open, news reporters in the water reporting, children sitting up to their waist in water at the computers in school.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-90316750256826637952015-08-13T03:04:00.002-07:002015-08-13T03:35:45.861-07:00Signs of the inner world exposed in Tianjin port city<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a) <u><b>Swimming through a sea of cars</b></u><br />
Thousands of cars and vans parked in the car parks were scorched by the blast at the Chinese port of Tianjin port city. I observe these things and find the doors and the frames of the windows merging with my hands and fingers, and I enter the environment and swim through the sea of cars, piercing through a mesh of car doors, and in the warped remains of the car filled floors of the multi-story carparks, I see the ocean waves and the cracked open roofs become the froth.<br />
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<b>b) <u>Travelling through a tunnel system that connects through long vehicles</u></b><br />
Because of the fact the vehicles were present in the site of the devastation, I imagined driving a small vehicle of the mind that drives through other vehicles, and here through the fire engines, through imaginary shafts that connected one side compartment to another and then through the long dented lorry and into another vehicle somewhere further on.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-45763574638219063522015-08-11T06:32:00.001-07:002015-08-14T06:12:25.352-07:00JG Ballard and the Inner Space<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>a) <u>The Idea of Inner Space</u></b><br />
J G Ballard with his idea of Inner Space, he came up with it as a sort of a slogan, but he thought that Science Fiction should turn itself towards the sort of areas, where its readers were living in their ordinary lives and Inner Space became an area of reality remade by the mind. It is the internal landscape of tomorrow that is a transmuted image of the past, and one of the most fruitful areas for the imaginative writer. It is particularly rich in visual symbols, and he felt that this sort of speculative fantasy played a role very similar to that of the surrealism in the graphic arms<br />
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<b>b)</b> <b><a href="http://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/jg-ballard-on-surrealists.html"><u>Ballard on Surrealism</u></a></b><br />
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<b>c)</b> <b><u>The Drowned World scenario</u></b><br />
When he came to write the book, The Drowned World . People were
accusing him of stealing from Carl Gustave Jung those who didn't accuse
him of that were accusing him of stealing from Joseph Conrad.<br />
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of the themes of the book were that the world has regressed in time,
because of enormous temperature changes and the environment had become
close to that of the Triassic era around 250 to 200 million years ago. <br />
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The
landscapes began to emerge from the character's dreams, which were
landscapes of great reptiles, huge primitive plants and so on and their
own psychological needs became of those of sort of pre-human beings.<br />
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They
realize that the uterine sea around them, as if it were a dark womb of
the ocean mother, was as much a graveyard of their own individuality as
it was the source of their lives, and perhaps their fears might have
reflected his own uneasiness about re-enacting the experiences of his
childhood and attempting to explore such dangerous ground<br />
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The hero re-mythologises himself in terms of this quest for the sun and in the end of the book, he sets of south looking for greater and greater heat and light and the kind of materials from which basic forms of life had generated.<br />
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<b>d)</b><u><b> The Past of The Drowned World</b></u><br />
The question for him was about how far do the landscapes of one's childhood, as much as its emotional experiences, provide and inescapable background to all one's imaginative writing? When he wrote his first novel The Drowned World in 1960, he didn't at the time realise it, but a lot of the landscapes in that novel, such as the apartment houses and office blocks of London rising out of a swamp, were very close to the memories he had of the apartment houses of the French Concession in Shanghai, rising out of the flooded paddy fields which he views every day from the prison cam about eight miles south of the city. It was only in hindsight that he begin to see that he was feeding elements of that landscape,<br />
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Certainly his own earliest memories were of Shanghai during the annual long summer floods, when the streets of the city were two or three feet in a brown silt-laden water, and where the surrounding countryside, in the centre of the flood-table of the Yangtze, was an almost continuous mirror of drowned paddy fields and irrigation canals stirring sluggishly in the hot sunlight. On reflection, it seemed to him that the image of an immense half-submerged city overgrown by tropical vegetation, which formed the centre piece of The Drowned World, is in some way of fusion of his childhood memories and his last ten years then in London.<br />
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Among the characteristic fauna of that age were the crocodiles and
alligators, amphibian creatures at home in both the aquatic and
terrestrial worlds, who symbolize for the hero of the novel the
submerged dangers of his quest. Reflecting on his
own past, Ballard could remember an enormous ancient alligator housed in
a narrow concrete pit, half filled with cigarette packers and ice cream
cartons in the reptile house at the Shanghai Zoo, who seemed to have
been jerked forwards reluctantly, as if so many tens of millions of
years into mankind's 20th Century.<br />
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<b>e) <u>Fusing dream with reality </u></b><br />
In many respects, this fusion of the past and present experiences, and of such disparate elements as the modern office buildings of central London and indeed the alligator in a Chinese zoo, resembled to him the mechanisms by which dreams are constructed, and perhaps the great value of fantasy as a literary form is its ability to bring together apparently unconnected and dissimilar ideas. So, to a large extent, all fantasy served this purpose, and he believed that speculative fantasy, as he preferred to call the more serious fringe of science fiction, was a potent method of using one's imagination to construct a paradoxical universe where dream and reality become fused together, each retaining its own distinctive quality, and yet in some way assuming the role of its opposite, and where by an undeniable logic, black simultaneously became white.<br />
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Without in any way suggesting that the act of writing is a form of creative self-analysis, he felt that the writer of fantasy has a marked tendency to select images and ideas which directly reflected the internal landscapes of his mind, and then the ready of the fantasy must interpret them on this level, distinguishing between the manifest content, which may seem obscure, meaningless or nightmarish, and the latent content, the private vocabulary of symbols drawn by the narrative from the writer's mind. The dream worlds, synthetic landscapes and plasticity of visual forms, invented by the writer of fantasy are external equivalents of the inner world of psyche, and because these symbols take their impetus from the most formative and confused periods of a person's life, they are often time-sculptures of terrifying ambiguity.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i>See: <a href="http://www.jgballard.ca/non_fiction/jgb_time_memory_innerspace.html">http://www.jgballard.ca/non_fiction/jgb_time_memory_innerspace.html</a></i></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i><i>See: <a href="http://jgballard.ca/media/1970_oct_friends_magazine.html">http://jgballard.ca/media/1970_oct_friends_magazine.html </a></i></i></span></li>
<li><b>Dr Christopher Evans:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Is this phrase, Inner Space, you coined
it, I think, it's talking about er, inward looking rather than outward
looking, that's an over simplification</span><br />
<b>J G Ballard: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes,
I was interested, I was, partly it was a slogan, I mean it was a sort
of, I flew a few, you know, I was flying a kite, ahm, but I, I meant it
seriously. What I meant was, that, I, I thought that these sort of
areas, that, that science fiction should turn its attention to, were,
was, well, the sort of areas, in which, where its readers, er, were in
fact, were, were living in their ordinary lives, that I was, I was
talking, I was talking about a world... by Inner Space, I meant a world,
um, or, or those areas of reality that have been, as it were, remade by
the mind and I mean, you see, a sort of an early precursor if you like
of Inner Space, you'd see, um, the novels of Kafka, let's say or various
very much the same surrealist, surrealist painters, where there's the
landscapes of the soul and so on, um , in films like</span> (Last Year At)
<span style="color: #ea9999;">Marienbad and er, Alphaville, in the novels of William Burroughs, um</span><br />
<b>Dr Christopher Evans: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">The
first novels, you, you, after you produced three , very clearly marked
trilogy. Erm, the first is actually still one of my favourite books in
fact, not just one of my favourite science fiction books, that's Drowned
World, in which you see the world as being, totally, more or less
completely, inundated and it's er, lots of Jungian overtones to it,
seems to me, and er</span><br />
<b>J G Ballard:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Unconsciously, of course</span><br />
<b>Dr Christopher Evans: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">The unconscious</span><br />
<b>J G Ballard: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Oh
no sorry, none of, none of the overtones were sort of deliberate, and
various people accused me at the time of stealing the book from Jung,
those who didn't accuse me of stealing the book from Jung accused me of
stealing it from Conrad, um.</span><br />
<b>Dr Christopher Evans: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">One
of the themes really, that you, as the world almost regressed in time,
because of these enormous temperature changes, that, that the
environment became close to the environment of millions of years ago</span><br />
<b>J G Ballard:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes, the triassic period, I think, yuh</span><br />
<b>Dr Christopher Evans: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">And, people therefore people began to find themselves being drawn back</span><br />
<b>J G Ballard:</b>
<span style="color: #ea9999;"> Right, yuh, they began to dream of, I mean they they, they sort of,
they began, landscapes began to emerge from their dreams, which were the
landscapes of, of er of the trias, of great reptiles and huge primitive
plants and all the rest of it, and the, their own sort of erm, their
own sort of biological and psychological needs became those of, of, of a
var, of the sort of a pre human beings, so that the sort of, these sort
of, the hero in the novel as it were re-mythologises himself in terms
of this quest for the sun, so he sets off in the end of the book, he
sets off south looking for greater and greater heat, and light and the
kind of materials that from which basic forms of life had generated</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i> ( The Book Programme Interview, 4th February 1978)</i></b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>J G Ballard:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">There's no doubt that the surrealist painters have had a far bigger influence on me than any writers have done. I regard Surrealism as really the greatest imaginative adventure of the Twentieth Century. I think that the surrealist movement is very misunderstood. People think it, it's, ah, a movement in painting, inspired by fantasy, but in fact that's not true. Um, the surrealists were all very interested in science, in optics and photography, um, and their main inspiration of course was psychoanalysis, ah, and I think, um, that combination of science and the imagination is very close to my own writing and of course has many affinities with science fiction itself. In many ways I believe that science fiction is the authentic literature of the 20th Century. I think it's unfortunate that that science fiction is boxed off into its own little compartment.</span> <b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Future Now, I</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nterview with J.G. Ballard by Solveig Nordlund 1986 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS6MWpFX_N0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS6MWpFX_N0</a>)</span></b></li>
<li><span style="color: #ea9999;"></span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>J G Ballard: </i></span></span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Well,
ever since I started writing, which was longer ago than I care to
remember, nearly 30 years ago, I planned to write a book about, the
wartime period in Shanghai, but, for some reason had not go around to
it. I think, um, part of the problem I had was, I came to England in
'46, and I knew I would never go back to China, um. I had to remake my
own entire life here, cope with this very strange country as it
certainly was to me in the late forties. Recently in a peculiar way, it
started to get strange again, but that may be because my children have
grown up and when I had, when i got married and had children, I tried to
put roots down, and erm, now that they have grown up, it's possibly why
I was able to write, start writing the book about three years ago,
because my children had entered adult but for whatever, whatever reason,
I had to remake my life here and it seemed a necessarily confusing to
to try to recreate this this city at a at a at a wartime period that had
vanished forever because almost nothing was known about the war in
China, um, very, Shanghai and all the um all the important cities of
China vanished in 1949 when the Communists arrived behind, vanished into
total obscurity from which, it's only just begun to to reemerge. There
seemed no point in in, using my wartime and childhood experiences
directly, but I think, what I was doing of course, what, although I was
writing, uh, something nominally called Science Fiction, set in the
future, I was really in many ways writing about the past and that there
are elements in all my novels</span><span style="color: #ea9999;"></span><br />
<b>Interviewer: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes, I think </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>J G Ballard:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></i></span></span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">In in, of of my, you know, of my China background.</span><br />
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<b>Interviewer:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes,
that's what came through to me, I mean, having read through some of
your earlier novels and then reading Empire of the Sun, it was though I
had found the hidden springs of some of these Ballard-esque landscapes.
There were the airplanes, there were the shattered cities, shattered
people, um the life led at extremity. Were you conscious of that when
you were previously writing?</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>J G Ballard: </i></span></span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">No, I mean, to tell the truth, when I wrote</span></span>
my first novel the Drowned World, um, in 1960, uh, it's, it's only
with the benefit of... , I , I didn't at the time really realise that,
that a lot of the landscapes I described in that novel, um, the sort of
apartment houses and office blocks of London rising out of a, out of a
swamp, ah, in fact, were very close to the memories I had of the
apartment houses of the French Concession in Shanghai, rising out,
apparently, of the flooded paddy fields which I viewed every day from
our camp, er, about eight miles south of the city. It's only in the
benefit of hindsight that I begun to see that I was feeding in elements
of, of that landscape, which come out explicitly in this book</span><span style="color: #ea9999;"></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (Writers in Conversation- J G Ballard)</span></div>
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supposed to be. All these not so good reviews must make it a must! I actually almost liked Fantastic Four, it had some interesting
nightmarish moments but parts of the movie seemed too recently used<b>.</b> The actors were fine in their roles as long as one wasn't too interested in the actual characters that they were based upon or even the comic book series as a whole. It looks as if they tried to squash the resulting Fantastic Four movie
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<b>a)</b> On the 8th of August, I have finally watching Bourne Identity, it is a film that I would not bother to recommend to people really but enough people have already watched it over the last dozen plus years, I think it may as well continue to be called Bored Identity. But for some reason, imagining Bourne and the woman
occasionally confusingly fusing together as Siamese Twins in the taxi<b>. </b>As if their knees and elbows and spines start fusing together from time to time and separate, accompanied by the sound of cracking bone<b>. <span class="expand-stream-item js-view-details"></span><span class="expand-stream-item js-view-details"></span></b>And moments later he tells her "<span style="color: #ea9999;"> whatever we're doing, we must do it
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wink, say no more</span>" as they watch the movie through my mind<b>. I</b> thought about their flesh opening up as their interior organs begin
to temporarily fuse together as well in the back of the taxi<b>. </b>For brief moments Bourne and the woman would share a heart, spleen, kidneys and liver as well as spinal tissue as their vertebrae connected.<b> a</b>nd they would joyously scream and howl as they attempted to move their
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guns implanted into bodyparts asking for Bourne to pull the trigger , and there are those who will do back flips through the window to plunge to their death if Bourne can not kill them correctly, they still want to make it seem as if they died by his hand. There is also the scene where Clive Owen's character gets shot at, perhaps really he is being taken for one of the ones begging to be killed by Jason Bourne and has payed huge amounts of money for this act, but he has bought into this as a part of the gunshots for questions package.<br />
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David Robert Mitchell had the urge to make a horror movie, and slowly he added pieces to piece of memories from his nightmares , and then he started thinking, "<span style="color: #ea9999;">Oh, it'd be fun if it's something that can move between different people</span>" almost like a game of tag to some degree. And then it became clear to him and he then thought "<span style="color: #ea9999;">Oh, it should be through sex because it would sort of connect the characters physically and emotionally</span>" and this for him felt like the right thing. And this developed over a number of years in the back of his brain. </div>
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<b>b)</b> <b><u>No explanation for sexually transmitted monster </u></b></div>
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So this scenario seemed to reflect the idea of a sexually transmitted distease, but there would be no explanation as to how this would take form. If one
thinks back to a dream, there isn't necessarily a reason that you had
it, it's simply the reality of your world at the time, and this for him
was much stronger that inventing something with a logical beginning
because something like this didn't need logic, it just simply existed.
There was no intention to turn this into an origins story, but have his
characters thrown in to a nightmare, and there is no logical way to
escape from it, it can't be solved, nightmares defied a solution. He
didn't want a magical thing to make them enter the nightmare or any
event leading to this things. It was about something that didn't make
sense, it came straight out of a nightmare and it can't be avoided by
natural logic. There were people who went to see it that wanted answers
but it was not what he was trying to do with this film.</div>
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<b>c) </b><u><b>Placement out of time</b></u></div>
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goal of the movie was to have production design elements from different
eras and include some things that don't quite exist, and this would
place the film outside of time in the way that suggested a dream state
or play like a nightmare. Perhaps the viewer might wonder where and when
the film was taking place and there would be something troubling about
that. It definitely leant in the direction of the 70s and 80s whole
there were some things from the 50s and 60s. Perhaps things such as the
characters watching a 1950s horror movie didn't make sense or the
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<b>d)</b> <b><u>A Peanuts cartoon dream</u></b></div>
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element of this dream state might come through the fact that there was
something not quite right about the parents being outside the world of
these teenagers, which was quite isolating for the protagonists because
it didn't feel quite real. Some of the characters are on the edge of
being young adults, and it seemed to be the right thing for the horror
film in the sense that they can in some way navigate some elements of
the adult world, but they're also in a limbo to some degree. This all
contributed to the suggestion of a dream like world, perhaps in this
case, a Peanuts cartoon dream world because they seem to be just
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e) <u><b>The shell compact cellphone e-reader</b></u></div>
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wanted some modern things in that that were not easily datable,
because if there was something such as an iPhone, the viewer would know
what year it was set in. There were a couple of cell phones in the film
but the rules and the way that people interacted with them were
different than the way they were used in the real world. Another example
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cell phone e-reader designed using and re-purposing a 'shell' compact
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The master plan concocted by Paul to try and rid Jay once and for all of the monster that follows her is an elaborate scheme that involves bringing a bunch of electricl items to a swimming pool, hoping to lure it into the water, and then electrocuting it is an example of a stupid idea that belonged perhaps to a children's movie plan, perhaps something out of a Scooby-Doo cartoon, and this was the point. What would you do if you were confronted by a monster and found yourself trapped in a nightmare?<b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarah Meikle: </b></span></span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">The
film seems to be set in some sort of temporal vacuum - a kind of retro
look mixed with modern tech. The characters watch black-and-white
televisions and play card games, or they read e-books on a gadget from
the 1960s. Why the mix of different time periods </span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">?</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /> </b><b><b>David Robert Mitchel:</b></b></span></span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">The
goal was to have production design elements from different eras and
some things that don't quite exist. The e-reader is designed from like a
sixties' 'shell' compact, re-purposed as an e-reader, and that was to
keep the film from being too time-specific. I wanted some modern things
in there but I didn't want them to be too easily datable. if it was an
iPhone, you'd know what year we made it. So some of that is on the edge
of being fantasy; all those different things from different eras places
it outside time. That, in effect, suggests a dream-like world. When
you're dreaming, you know that there's something just not quite right
about the world you're in. </span></span></span><br /><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(The Dark Side, #166, p42)</span></b></li>
<li><b>AVC: The time period of the movie is fascinatingly indeterminate.
One of the girls has this mobile device, but otherwise we could be
watching a movie set in 1990.</b><br />
<b>DRM:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">There are production
design elements from the ’50s on up to modern day. A lot of it is from
the ’70s and ’80s. That e-reader cell phone—or “shell phone”—you’re
talking about is not a real device. It’s a ’60s shell compact that we
turned into a cell phone e-reader. So I wanted modern things, but if you
show a specific smartphone now, it dates it. It’s too real for the
movie. It would bother me anyway. So we made one up. And all of that is
really just to create the effect of a dream—to place it outside of time,
and to make people wonder about where they are. Those are things that I
think happen to us when we have a dream. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/david-robert-mitchell-his-striking-new-horror-film-216215">http://www.avclub.com/article/david-robert-mitchell-his-striking-new-horror-film-216215</a>)</span></li>
<li><b>The film seems to be set in no particular era. Was that deliberate?</b><br />
<b>DRM:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">David Robert Mitchell: That’s intentional. We built the film from a
production standpoint as if it were several different eras. A lot of
stuff was from the 50s, 60s, 70s and there are some modern things as
well. All of it was to put the film a little bit outside of time, so
it’s closer to a dream. If you can’t quite place it then it’s
intentional. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://lovehorror.co.uk/horror-features/interview-with-it-follows-director-david-robert-mitchell/"> http://lovehorror.co.uk/horror-features/interview-with-it-follows-director-david-robert-mitchell/</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Whenever the characters are watching TV, there's always an old
black-and-white B-movie playing. That makes it pretty clear that you
were working with heavy nostalgia.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">It's true, so much of <i>It Follows</i> comes from classic horror. It
was about trying to seamlessly mesh what's so great about those older
horror films into something that feels contemporary but, at the same
time, doesn't seem to exist in a specific time or place. I like the idea
of mixing eras and having the film exist slightly outside of time.
There's a feeling that <i>It Follows</i> could be happening in the
1980s, but there are a few things that are modern in it. And some of the
thing the kids are watching don't really make sense—the last thing
you'd expect these kids to watch is a monster movie from the 1950s. It's
a little outside of reality and dreamlike. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/09/it-follows-tiff-interview-david-robert-mitchell">http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/09/it-follows-tiff-interview-david-robert-mitchell</a>)</span></span> </span></li>
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<b>Going over to casting, it seems that you like working with a younger age group for you films. Both this one and <i>The Myth of the American Sleepover</i> are sort of coming-of-age-esque.</b><br />
<b>DMR: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">They are both coming-of-age films to some degree. <i>Myth </i>is
very specifically a coming-of-age film and it’s also a younger cast.
This one is similar and there is a coming-of-age themes connecting with
the horror, but they’re a little older. Some of the characters are more
on the edge of being young adults. It seemed to be the right thing for
the horror film in the sense that they can in some way navigate some
bits of the adult world, but they’re also in a limbo to some degree. We
tried to exaggerate that with the way they’re isolated and you see very
few adults. It’s kind of like a weird Peanuts cartoon dream world.
They’re kind of just floating in space.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.gotchamovies.com/director-david-robert-mitchell-discusses-the-horror-movie-it-follows/">http://www.gotchamovies.com/director-david-robert-mitchell-discusses-the-horror-movie-it-follows/</a></span></div>
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<b>You seemed to reference a lot of old school cult movies, there was a bit of an '80s aesthetic...</b></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">In
terms of production design it definitely leans in the direction of the
’70s and ’80s but there are a few things that look like the ’50s or ’60s
and there are a few modern things. It was sort of an attempt to place
it outside of time. Yes there are references to that time but there is
also an attempt to create something that is closer to a dream state or a
nightmare. Because it doesn’t quite feel like our world. It’s similar,
it’s almost our world, but there’s something that isn’t quite right. And
there were a lot of choices that were made to suggest that.</span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (<a href="http://www.hungertv.com/feature/follows-david-robert-mitchell">http://www.hungertv.com/feature/follows-david-robert-mitchell</a>/) </span></b></div>
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<li><b>There’s a certain level of ambiguity throughout the film,
whether it’s the inconsistent presence of these character’s parents or
the specific timeframe in which it takes place. It could be set in the
eighties; it could be the present day. What was your rationale for that?</b>
<b>DRM: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I wanted to maintain this idea of placing the
film outside of time, which would suggest a dream state or play like a
nightmare. There’s something not quite right about the parents being
outside of the world of these teenagers, which is quite isolating for
the protagonists because it doesn’t feel quite real. The out of time
concept was also explored through the mixed approaches to the production
design elements of the film. It makes you wonder where and when this is
taking place, and there’s maybe something a little troubling about
that. We spent a lot of time mixing different design elements, which
made it a very specific conscious choice. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://www.film3sixtymagazine.com/index.php/2015/02/25/david-robert-mitchell-and-maika-monroe-discuss-the-nightmarish-it-follows-page-2-2/">http://www.film3sixtymagazine.com/index.php/2015/02/25/david-robert-mitchell-and-maika-monroe-discuss-the-nightmarish-it-follows-page-2-2/</a>) </span></li>
<li><b>The film seems to be set in no particular era. Was that deliberate?</b><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">That’s intentional. We built the film from a production standpoint as
if it were several different eras. A lot of stuff was from the 50s,
60s, 70s and there are some modern things as well. All of it was to put
the film a little bit outside of time, so it’s closer to a dream. If you
can’t quite place it then it’s intentional.</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://vulturehound.co.uk/2015/02/david-robert-mitchell-interview/">http://vulturehound.co.uk/2015/02/david-robert-mitchell-interview/</a>)</span></li>
<li><b>IT FOLLOWS has a very timeless quality to it – was it hard to keep the technology out of the film?</b><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">We definitely put effort into it in terms of a lot of it our
Production Designer spent a lot of energy just selecting the right
things from many different decades. It definitely leans in the direction
of the 70s and 80s but there are some things from the 50s and 60s
there. Some modern things and some things that don’t quite exist. It was
definitely carefully planned. It places you outside [of time], like in a
dream maybe. There are a couple of cell phones in the film but the
rules and the way that people interact with them are different from the
way we handle them in our world. It’s maybe not quite our world.</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2015/02/26/thn-interview-it-follows-director-david-robert-mitchell/">http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2015/02/26/thn-interview-it-follows-director-david-robert-mitchell/</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Paste</i></b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Timeless” is a good way of putting it. The film
doesn’t feel like it exists in any specific time or place, but in its
own universe. Was that done on purpose to give yourself more freedom?</span><br />
<b>DRM</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah, totally, that was very much part of the plan, to make
the film exist outside of time so that in a way it resembles a dream or a
nightmare. There are some anachronistic production design elements,
things from many different eras. There are some things that don’t quite
exist. The fact that you rarely see any of the parents or adults in the
film, they’re on the edge of the frame or they’re barely there, all of
that is to suggest something that doesn’t feel quite right, that is a
little bit outside of reality or the way that we see the world. You
can’t quite put your finger on it, or where this is, or <i>when</i> this is specifically, and I think that’s a quality that shares with a dream.</span></span><b> (<a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/03/the-feeling-of-following-an-interview-with-david-r.html">http://www.pastemagazine.com/</a> March 17th 2015)</b></span></li>
<li><b>Do you have the whole mythology mapped out, like how this supernatural disease all started, why it's passed along the way it is?</b><br />
DRM: <span style="color: #ea9999;">I have an idea of what this really is and what it's about, but
ultimately it's just a guess. If you think back to a dream, there isn't
necessarily a reason you had it, it's simply the reality of your world.
That's much stronger than having something that has a logical beginning.
Things like this don't need a logical beginning, they just simply
exists.</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/exclusive-interview-it-follows-director-david-robert-mitchell-328#oCjAa4ecyyzDdzCS.99">http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/exclusive-interview-it-follows-director-david-robert-mitchell</a>)</span><br />
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<li><b>Filmmaker: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Both <i>It Follows</i> and <i>Myth of the American Sleepover</i> have a timeless feel, especially with regards to technology. Is that a part of your style or more specific to these narratives?</span><br />
<b>Mitchell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It’s part of my style in the sense that I like not
being locked into the rules of our natural world. I like being able to
change some of the ground rules in creating a film, and that happens to
be what I’ve done in the films. I like altering something just a little
bit. It’s about creating something closer to a dream state (or a
nightmare), and that’s something I like to do. Whether I’ll do that,
maybe or maybe not. They’ll all be different in their own way. But I
like the idea of changing things — sometimes simple things, sometimes
significant aspects of the world, because that’s what movies can do.
They can do that really well, and they don’t have to operate or exist in
the world that we know. And nor should they, a lot of the time. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://filmmakermagazine.com/93540-it-was-a-bit-of-a-rough-ride-david-robert-mitchell-on-it-follows/#.VbjN17fDHn8">http://filmmakermagazine.com/</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kicking things off, the site inquires about the master plan concocted by
Paul to try and rid Jay once and for all of the spectres that are
following her. It's an elaborate scheme that involves bringing a bunch
of electronics to a swimming pool, hoping to lure it into the water, and
then electrocuting it. Does that sound dumb? Well, Mitchell agrees.<br />Mitchell</b></span> </span>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">It’s the stupidest plan ever! It's a kid-movie plan,
it’s something that Scooby-Doo and the gang might think of, and that was
sort of the point. What would you do if you were confronted by a
monster and found yourself trapped within a nightmare? Ultimately, you
have to resort to some way of fighting it that’s accessible to you in
the physical world, and that’s not really going to cut it. We kind of
avoid any kind of traditional setup for that sequence, because in more
traditional horror films, there might be a clue that would lead them to
figure out a way to destroy this monster. I intentionally avoided
placing those. Instead, they do their best to accomplish something, and
we witness its failure. It’s probably a very non-conventional way of
approaching the third-act confrontation, but we thought it was a fun way
to deal with it. </span><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/david-robert-mitchell-talks-about-his-motivation-behind-the-ending-of-it-follows-20150402">http://blogs.indiewire.com/</a> April 2, 2015)</span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">Question: <span style="color: #ea9999;">I read that you got this
idea from a dream you had as a kid. Can you tell me about going from
that to turning it into a STD?</span></span><br /><span class="s1">DAVID ROBERT MITCHELL: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah, well that came later. I
had the nightmare when I was like nine or ten or something, I always
remembered pieces of that nightmare, the feeling from it. I’ve always
wanted to make a horror film and so I always kept thinking about that
nightmare. So, over the years, I’d just kind of add things to it. In the
nightmare it’s about being followed by something that looked like
different people, all the things that are in the film, it was very slow,
it’s not that hard to get away from it if you’re paying attention, but
it’s the fact that it’s always coming for you. I just tried to kind of
build on that feeling of dread and then at some point I started
thinking, ‘<span style="color: #e06666;">Oh, it’d be fun if it’s something that can move between
different people</span>,’ almost like a game of tag to some degree. And then it
sort of became clear to me like, ‘Oh, it should be through sex because
it would sort of connect the characters physically and emotionally.’ It
just felt like the right thing. But that happened over a lot of years
just sort of in the back of my brain.</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://collider.com/david-robert-mitchell-it-follows-interview/">http://collider.com/david-robert-mitchell-it-follows-interview/</a>)</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;">Sarah Meikle: <span style="color: #ea9999;">There's an obvious lack of parental input throughout the story. Why?</span></span><span class="s1" style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1">DAVID ROBERT MITCHELL: </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">I did that for several reasons. I did a similar thing for my first film but for a different reason; in American Sleepover, the characters are a little bit younger and it was about separating them from the adult world so that the world they would inhabit was almost magical in some way. In this film, I separated them because they are a bit older but it's about isolating them. It's not so much about putting them into this beautiful magical world, it's more of a lonelier, more frightening place. Again, it's also doing a similar thing with production designs. There's something not quite right about it. Something that feels a little off. You're tripping into this sort of dream-like nightmare quality. And also it's fun to do what the Peanuts cartoons did in some way, like Charlie Brown. You never hear the adults - they're like '<span style="color: #e06666;">Wa, wa, wa</span>". </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(The Dark side, #166, p42)</span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5070212635869842758.post-35625774312608539392015-07-20T02:51:00.003-07:002015-07-20T05:03:02.330-07:00The Ant Man movie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
a) I managed to see the new Antman movie. Probably the most exciting
thing during the film was the moment when a false fire alarm erupted in
the actual building forcing the audience out until five minutes later it
was declared to be a false alarm and then everyone went back to watch
the film but they forgot to rewind it, the film had been going still in
the machine although not on the screen and they continued playing
onwards much to everyone's annoyance until five minutes lat<span class="text_exposed_show">er people went to complain and they rewound it to about where it was ten minutes before the fire alarm went off. </span><br />
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b) Another trip into the plastic universe of Marvel with all its CGI
splendour, they just had to make reference to the Marvel Avengers movie,
and involve a character from the Captain America movie. they couldn't
keep it as its own thing for one movie. The hero and the villains
outfits seem were fine for the movie. There were moments of humour that
almost seemed surrealistic with the manifestation of various forms and
objects that had been enlarged a size from miniature state.<br />
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c) However it appeared that there was a lot of humour in the Mexican
person's street slang that a lot of people in the audience were laughing
at all the way through although it I really didn't understand and
also doubts that anyone else I know locally would have a clue about
either. Otherwise it was a very entertaining movie. The actor Corey
Stoll who appears in the movie looked noticeably as if he were
transforming into a young Telly Savalas, but couldn't quite get the
shape of the ears.<br />
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d) <span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$text0:0">Well,
I admit that found myself amused by the toys trains being chucked
around as seen in the trailer clip, and the tank keyring suddenly being
revealed as a means of escape . Well as far as I was concerned it's
another movie that will melt away from m</span></span><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text0:0">emory
in five days time and probably will become fused with old memories from
Michael Bentine's Potty Time. I suppose the concept of someone or thing
shrinking was just another farfetched thing not to think about for more
than five seconds along with the ants and all the problems associated
with that, and the other thing I couldn't tolerate was secret door
revealing another costume tucked away somewhere. I recall the character
from some Marvel Avengers cartoons and it didn't interest me much but
the film version interested me a little bit more. Perhaps I need to see
The Incredible Shrinking Man again or Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
It was odd to see Michael Douglas de-aged because it looked more as if
he had a surgical facelift more than a return to the way he looked
decades earlier.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$replies10207324167161857_10207324567891875:0.1:2:$comment10207324167161857_10207324646653844:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text0:0"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$comment10207324167161857_10207324654774047:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$comment10207324167161857_10207324654774047:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$comment10207324167161857_10207324654774047:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".40.1:5:1:$comment10207324167161857_10207324654774047:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text0:0">e) Another
movie for Wmm to allow to melt away from the brain and possibly never
have to watch again in his whole life and not expect anyone else to
bother to watch along with many of these other Marvel Superhero movies.</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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