tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post2532566546886179206..comments2024-03-09T07:19:46.311-05:00Comments on The Short Films Blog: Scorpio RisingMiddentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829095129849712488noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post-84762297525287604392008-10-23T09:58:00.000-04:002008-10-23T09:58:00.000-04:00sounds like an interesting film, Ben. I'll check i...sounds like an interesting film, Ben. I'll check it out (if me 'hi-speed' Thai internet will allow it!) and write more...<BR/>BarryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27389910.post-78873462075659090672008-10-21T09:04:00.000-04:002008-10-21T09:04:00.000-04:00I particularly liked the intercutting of the comic...I particularly liked the intercutting of the comics, with their violent themes (the skulls in the Dick Tracy title) with the pictures of James Dean, the Marlon Brando posters, the video of … (well, what movie was that anyways?), the constant barrage of pop culture amplified by the soundtrack of one of the must cutthroat markets out there – pop music in the 1960s. <BR/><BR/>The way in which rebellion is so carefully commoditized and packaged, in this movie, that it sometimes <BR/><BR/>The way in which the actor casually but oh so calculatedly pulled out a cigarette, then puts it down, pulls out a match, and lights it on his teeth (taking several tries to get it right), seems emblematic of this careful posing. Only the party scenes feel remotely unstaged, and as gross as some of them are, human. The rest of it seems to convey an impression of being prepackaged. <BR/><BR/>Or maybe it’s just hard to watch those homoerotic dressing scenes of naked, cut torsos without thinking of the Calvin Klein ads that have reproduced (stolen?) that imagery. It’s hard to watch the intercutting of the bible story movie (making a rather bizarre comparison with Jesus) without thinking of Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Likewise, I’m sure the shock value of the church scenes were much greater 40 years ago. If the filmmaker was going for a “these guys are martyrs” message, it just doesn’t work for me. The whole intercutting of religious scenes just feels muddled.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com