I DON'T understand endings/story? do you know?
Sat, 11 Sept 2004, 10:45 amWalter Plinge4 posts in thread
I DON'T understand endings/story? do you know?
Sat, 11 Sept 2004, 10:45 amHi guys/gals
I hope your all having a great start to the weekend.
Hopefully I won't be sounding to dense today but just recently I had seen a musical and movie I could not fully understand.
I have seen many musicals & movies with twists and turns but for some strange reason I could not understand these two productions.
Can you help by explaining to me what they meant.
1) Mulhand Drive - the movie (CAN'T REMEMBER the spelling ). The movie with the gorgeous Naomi Watts now what was that all about?
2) The Rocky Horror Show - musical/movie once again I'm beginning to feel really stupid here and normally I'm the type of person who always thinks outside the box but who knows maybe my brain in going mush in my old age. (I'm not that old just kidding - but man I feel it today).
So can anyone out there help explain these two fine productions which I cannot understand.
Hope to hear from you guys soon.
JB :-)
I hope your all having a great start to the weekend.
Hopefully I won't be sounding to dense today but just recently I had seen a musical and movie I could not fully understand.
I have seen many musicals & movies with twists and turns but for some strange reason I could not understand these two productions.
Can you help by explaining to me what they meant.
1) Mulhand Drive - the movie (CAN'T REMEMBER the spelling ). The movie with the gorgeous Naomi Watts now what was that all about?
2) The Rocky Horror Show - musical/movie once again I'm beginning to feel really stupid here and normally I'm the type of person who always thinks outside the box but who knows maybe my brain in going mush in my old age. (I'm not that old just kidding - but man I feel it today).
So can anyone out there help explain these two fine productions which I cannot understand.
Hope to hear from you guys soon.
JB :-)
Re: I DON'T understand endings/story? do you know?
Sun, 12 Sept 2004, 04:32 pmI haven't seen Mulholland Drive, but isn't David Lynch known for making enigmatic, nightmarish, indecipherable films?
But I really quite like the Rocky Horror Show.
Right from it's opening song it announces the material and style it is about to parody: the 50's B-grade Sci-Fi films put out by RKO, like 'Forbidden Planet', 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', 'Flash Gordon'...and all the corniest versions of Frankenstein. Most of the characters are parody stereotypes...the highschool sweethearts, the evil mad scientist, the creepy henchman, the leather-clad biker rocker, the detective/professor, the dumb jock.
But on top of that, not unlike the Comedy Improv scenarios we love playing with so much at the Big Hoo Haa, they combine the parody idea with a juxtaposed scenario of a planet inhabited by transvestite/transexuals...and let the story figure itself out from there.
Musically it does what a lot of music in the 70's did, borrowed from the 50's sound styles and gave it a raunchier, more pompous, glam edge...but the lyrics are totally tongue in cheek.
Given these parameters, it's no wonder the resulting storyline is ludicrous, but that's exactly the point.
When Richard O'Brien (who wrote the book and music, and played Riff-Raff the henchman in the film) first produced it in a small venue in London, it was never intended as more than a dark, lunatic, comedy romp...not unlike things I've seen here by Luke Milton, or Blak Yak's 'Psycho Beach Party'? But it was the audience response that turned it into an underground classic, with patrons returning again and again, and dressing in drag. When it was made into a film, the initial response in the USA was very poor, and it was soon only screened during late night sessions at arthouse film theatres. But soon these became cult gatherings as audiences would regularly turn up to midnight screenings dressed as their favourite characters, sing along with the movie, and call out responses to certain lines in the film....and late night screenings were extended into record-breaking seasons.
Cheers,
Craig
But I really quite like the Rocky Horror Show.
Right from it's opening song it announces the material and style it is about to parody: the 50's B-grade Sci-Fi films put out by RKO, like 'Forbidden Planet', 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', 'Flash Gordon'...and all the corniest versions of Frankenstein. Most of the characters are parody stereotypes...the highschool sweethearts, the evil mad scientist, the creepy henchman, the leather-clad biker rocker, the detective/professor, the dumb jock.
But on top of that, not unlike the Comedy Improv scenarios we love playing with so much at the Big Hoo Haa, they combine the parody idea with a juxtaposed scenario of a planet inhabited by transvestite/transexuals...and let the story figure itself out from there.
Musically it does what a lot of music in the 70's did, borrowed from the 50's sound styles and gave it a raunchier, more pompous, glam edge...but the lyrics are totally tongue in cheek.
Given these parameters, it's no wonder the resulting storyline is ludicrous, but that's exactly the point.
When Richard O'Brien (who wrote the book and music, and played Riff-Raff the henchman in the film) first produced it in a small venue in London, it was never intended as more than a dark, lunatic, comedy romp...not unlike things I've seen here by Luke Milton, or Blak Yak's 'Psycho Beach Party'? But it was the audience response that turned it into an underground classic, with patrons returning again and again, and dressing in drag. When it was made into a film, the initial response in the USA was very poor, and it was soon only screened during late night sessions at arthouse film theatres. But soon these became cult gatherings as audiences would regularly turn up to midnight screenings dressed as their favourite characters, sing along with the movie, and call out responses to certain lines in the film....and late night screenings were extended into record-breaking seasons.
Cheers,
Craig