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Reading: Adventures In the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Music: The Very Best of Sam & Dave
TV/Movie: Demolition Man
Link o' the Day: StrangeHorizon.com
Another productive day, I'm glad to say. I made great headway in the Hank Moonjean book.
And aside from a flurry of e-mails and phonecalls with authors and the publisher, that's pretty much all I worked on. While working I enjoyed the first day of a free few days of HBO and Cinemax. It's a shame that the free days don't extend to the VoD stuff, but I had fun. One movie I came across was a guilty favorite of mine, Demolition Man starring Stallone, Snipes, and a host of others. I don't know why I love this movie so much. It's pretty much an action-violence slugfest. Maybe it's because of the weird future world it depicts.
It kind of reminds me of another guilty favorite of mine, Equilibrium--another depiction of a very unlikely future.
For Demolition Man, it's a future with no fun pleasures. No booze, fatty foods, violent movies, physical sex. Swearing is punishable by a fine. Taco Bell is the only restaurant to have survived "the fast-food wars." Nearly everyone is happy and pleasant, and they aren't on drugs.
It's a ridiculous future.
Likewise with Equilibrium only the extreme is carried further so that all emotions are outlawed. Art is contraband. Everything is grey and listless thanks to a universally-taken drug called Librium (clever name, huh?).
In neither case can it be said that the setting is wholly necessary for the plot. I think in both cases you could take both movies and set them in a more likely future as in say...Southland Tales and you could still make it work. Sure, there would have to be some changes to the plot, but hardly major ones.
Still, I love both of these movies. And I think part of it is because of the balls it took some writer and some producer and director to go ahead and keep these unbelieveable future settings. Very big on the "What If" of science fiction, even if it doesn't have the Probability Factor that we like to see at least acknowledged--if not adhered to.
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God, I love The Daily Show on Comedy Central!
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Today's link goes to our old favorite online magazine, StrangeHorizon.com. Gotta love it.
Cheers!
Music: The Very Best of Sam & Dave
TV/Movie: Demolition Man
Link o' the Day: StrangeHorizon.com
Another productive day, I'm glad to say. I made great headway in the Hank Moonjean book.
And aside from a flurry of e-mails and phonecalls with authors and the publisher, that's pretty much all I worked on. While working I enjoyed the first day of a free few days of HBO and Cinemax. It's a shame that the free days don't extend to the VoD stuff, but I had fun. One movie I came across was a guilty favorite of mine, Demolition Man starring Stallone, Snipes, and a host of others. I don't know why I love this movie so much. It's pretty much an action-violence slugfest. Maybe it's because of the weird future world it depicts.
It kind of reminds me of another guilty favorite of mine, Equilibrium--another depiction of a very unlikely future.
For Demolition Man, it's a future with no fun pleasures. No booze, fatty foods, violent movies, physical sex. Swearing is punishable by a fine. Taco Bell is the only restaurant to have survived "the fast-food wars." Nearly everyone is happy and pleasant, and they aren't on drugs.
It's a ridiculous future.
Likewise with Equilibrium only the extreme is carried further so that all emotions are outlawed. Art is contraband. Everything is grey and listless thanks to a universally-taken drug called Librium (clever name, huh?).
In neither case can it be said that the setting is wholly necessary for the plot. I think in both cases you could take both movies and set them in a more likely future as in say...Southland Tales and you could still make it work. Sure, there would have to be some changes to the plot, but hardly major ones.
Still, I love both of these movies. And I think part of it is because of the balls it took some writer and some producer and director to go ahead and keep these unbelieveable future settings. Very big on the "What If" of science fiction, even if it doesn't have the Probability Factor that we like to see at least acknowledged--if not adhered to.
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God, I love The Daily Show on Comedy Central!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Today's link goes to our old favorite online magazine, StrangeHorizon.com. Gotta love it.
Cheers!
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