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rmI am sitting in a cafe in the UK, with my boots rudely up on the extra chair and over the speakers is David Bowie's theme-song for Absolute Beginners.
Which, by the way, I still think is an utterly brilliant film that happened entirely at the wrong moment for anyone to care.
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Seriously, are you actually going to try to argue against David Bowie tap dancing on a giant typewriter? Or a gossip columnist character named Dido Lament? Or choreographed scenes of street party/chaos that then later actually get visually referenced in the awesome Gigolo Joe portion of A.I. (another movie everyone hates that I think is pretty impressive and totally relevant to lots of stuff)?
I'm not saying the mere existence of this film isn't nearly inexplicable. Trust me, I know its existence boggles the mind (although, being about teen culture and race issues, it makes an interesting companion piece to the original Hairspray).
I'm just saying that despite/because of its oddness of genre and combination of themes that it is actually a COMPLETELY AWESOME movie musical that was released in a period in which the genre was pretty much non-existent despite the advent of the music video's vague (and unsuccessful) attempts to push it back into existence (Giorgio Moroder's re-assembly of Metropolis with modern music was also a part of this sort of thing (as was, arguably, Electric Dreams, which I'll admit still charms the crap outta me, even if it's still too 80s for you -- of course, I'm also a big fan of the piece of music used to illustrate the film's central conceit), which people also didn't really like, but which I still love like burning).
Which, by the way, I still think is an utterly brilliant film that happened entirely at the wrong moment for anyone to care.
This message brought to you by I Am a Child of the 80s and I Love Musicals.
Seriously, are you actually going to try to argue against David Bowie tap dancing on a giant typewriter? Or a gossip columnist character named Dido Lament? Or choreographed scenes of street party/chaos that then later actually get visually referenced in the awesome Gigolo Joe portion of A.I. (another movie everyone hates that I think is pretty impressive and totally relevant to lots of stuff)?
I'm not saying the mere existence of this film isn't nearly inexplicable. Trust me, I know its existence boggles the mind (although, being about teen culture and race issues, it makes an interesting companion piece to the original Hairspray).
I'm just saying that despite/because of its oddness of genre and combination of themes that it is actually a COMPLETELY AWESOME movie musical that was released in a period in which the genre was pretty much non-existent despite the advent of the music video's vague (and unsuccessful) attempts to push it back into existence (Giorgio Moroder's re-assembly of Metropolis with modern music was also a part of this sort of thing (as was, arguably, Electric Dreams, which I'll admit still charms the crap outta me, even if it's still too 80s for you -- of course, I'm also a big fan of the piece of music used to illustrate the film's central conceit), which people also didn't really like, but which I still love like burning).
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Date: 2010-11-24 08:49 pm (UTC)I know its existence boggles the mind (although, being about teen culture and race issues, it makes an interesting companion piece to the original Hairspray).
These are fascinating thoughts, which make me want to rerent it (and incidentally and apropos of nothing else in this sentence,man, do I wish Electric Dreams was generally available in a Region 1 DVD), perhaps on a double bill with Pennies From Heaven ( a movie which probably needed Bob Fosse, but still had LOTS of amazing stuff going on).