>Erm, it's from 1920s Germany! I've never seen "It's A Wonderful Life",
Oh yeah, so it is ... apologies, don't mind me - but I still like the film, the edit & JM's score for the same reasons. But whatever. Anyway, what did you think of Mills' set/djing? ... I thought it was nice to have a little bird's eye view of what he was doing for a change! Man, he's fast! - although I noticed a few hiccups, as for the content, hmmm ... I thought he'd moved on .... but of course, I bopped along all the same... >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:01 PM >To: Odeluga, Ken >Subject: Re: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall > > >Erm, it's from 1920s Germany! I've never seen "It's A Wonderful >Life", but I >don't think there's any moment of comparable moment of lucidity in >Metropolis in any case: no matter what Lang was trying to say, I can't >discern any message of substance. Anyway, all in my most humble opinion :) > >J > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jonny McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Org" ><313@hyperreal.org> >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:43 PM >Subject: RE: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall > > >> The feeble grasp of Marxism (in the 1920s for God's sake!) >> >is bad enough, never mind the saccharine "love conquers all" resolution. >Oh >> >dear. >> >> Naaah - you're ommitting a vital fact Jonny! This is 1930s >America, happy >> endings and easily-comprehensible plots were virtually compulsory. Think >> studio system and remember political interfence/patronage (....hmmm... >that >> sounds very contemporary, 'Black Hawk Down' anyone?) >> >> Also, do you remember Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life"? Remember the >> part when he tries out being dead and suddenly, in an ostensibly quite >> treakly, not to say twee film, we get 5 minutes of [EMAIL PROTECTED] near >actualite: >> Gangsters, prohibition, McCarthyism, prostitution and hints of more >> international warefare ... then it all goes back to normal. Phew! Jimmy >> Stewart decides against it and all's well that ends well ... But, for me, >> the juxtuposition jarred so much that I wasn't really convinced that the >> ending depicted what Capra was essentially trying to say. I got a similar >> feeling in seeing Metropolis - both visually and thematically. Anyway, >this >> all remains mho and of course you were entitled to despise it. >> >> Best, >> >> Ken >> >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:19 PM >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org >> >Subject: Re: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall >> > >> > >> >And mine too: >> > >> >> My tuppeny worth >> > >> >I thought the film was almost awful. I'm glad they cut it down. God only >> >knows why such a lumbering primary school plot originally required over >two >> >and half hours. The feeble grasp of Marxism (in the 1920s for God's >sake!) >> >is bad enough, never mind the saccharine "love conquers all" resolution. >Oh >> >dear. Visually, though, "Metropolis" entirely deserves it's reputation. >The >> >robot replica was pretty techno. Mills' music is ace, but I don't think >it >> >fitted all that well, though it worked best when it was more storming: >> >"Robot Replica" and the destroy the machines scene. There were a lot of >> >moments where I thought the music was ill timed - though it was cool to >> >watch a film with the soundtrack as the object of interest, and >I think I >> >appreciate much more how much effort has to go into scores to be >> >successful. >> >Scoring for a silent movie and striking the balance between subtlety and >> >expressing when there's no dialogue is probably even harder. I think >Mills' >> >Metropolis comes down more on the, err, "Scarface" side of that balance >:) >> > >> >From where I was sat in cheap seats, the mosh pit that developed during >the >> >DJ set was pretty entertaining, though some charted accountant behind me >> >started dancing as if he'd been restraining himself all evening at this >> >point and whipped out one of those little light gadgets. >> > >> >Matt Herbert put on a great show. Though I still liked the idea of >> >it better >> >than the sound. I got one of those free cds which I've not listened to >yet, >> >but I might do as requested and pass it on :) Super Collider, by >contrast, >> >seemed pretty inept. I really liked the LP, but this show, IMO, was like >> >sitting through bad performance art set to turgid trip hop (with a weak >> >drummer to boot). >> > >> >Oh, and it was a tremendous view from the balcony out behind the stalls. >> > >> > >> > >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
