VideoDrome (Come on that movie is totally techno!)
that was going to go on my list - the quote "Long Live the New Flesh" was
even lifted and used quite effectively by Jim Thirwell/Scraping Feotus off
the Wheel (my industrial hero)
MEK
"Stewart Caig"
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08/16/04 06:17 AM
Thouigh I mentioned them earlier I am surprised nobody has picked up on the
Cronenberg links with techno. Seeing as, for me at least, one of the key
ideaologies within techno is the fusion of the organic and the synthetic,
the warm soul of man and the cold soul of the machine. Much of Cronenberg's
works explore themes of similar fusions, contrasts and blurring the line
between the organic and synthetic . Check, for example, Naked Lunch,
VideoDrome (Come on that movie is totally techno!) and eXistenZ.
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From: "Brendan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Anya K Stang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: (313) Techno Films
I'm generally agreed with everyone on the Blade Runner,
Metropolis and 2001 mentions. Solaris, though, has always
struck me as being a bit of an "ambient" film, or more
accurately a "Basic Channel" film; when I watch it, I
can't help thinking how it would work with a dubbed
soundtrack by Vainqueur or Maurizio...
Here are another two which I've not noticed anyone mention
so far (although I may have just missed them) - Robocop
(it's set in Detroit!) and Brother From Another Planet
(Claude Young used the title as a pseudonym!). So both
fairly techno films, and with heavily on-topic aspects
to them as well.
Maybe Robocop is more of a "rave" film though?
Brendan
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> Subject: RE: (313) Techno Films
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> Blade Runner will always be "my" ultimate Techno film.
> Metropolis comes a pretty close second, then Solaris and 2001.
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> I also relate to Sean on the Seven, KillBill and Snatch tip.
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> Nothing out of the ordinary here. hmmmm..... *shrugs* : )
>
> Anya
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