tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23980478637778911342024-02-07T03:51:34.321-08:00The High Horse"What was that? Oh, I'm sorry, I can't hear you from up here on my high horse"
COMMENTARY FROM THE FRONTLINE OF FABULOUS.Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-67044796755219982152012-02-11T17:49:00.000-08:002012-02-11T17:56:59.030-08:00Lana Dull Ray<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQrad-AEjDUMh1x63oSioZkq0qv5mbOR2DpDyiBnQOxsfMk2jPD5OvPoY1kijTeFPcfcNtRz_wwwUGAtUmhl-l7j-uGnZPHMFWULe6rjfy10DMR7bQ3AzrmprgUcaEvOvtxuMXON6aWY/s1600/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-608x608.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQrad-AEjDUMh1x63oSioZkq0qv5mbOR2DpDyiBnQOxsfMk2jPD5OvPoY1kijTeFPcfcNtRz_wwwUGAtUmhl-l7j-uGnZPHMFWULe6rjfy10DMR7bQ3AzrmprgUcaEvOvtxuMXON6aWY/s400/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-608x608.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708061333455031202" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">
</span><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">“In Del Ray we see that the mannequin was rushed to the store before the paint had a chance to dry.”</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The scandal surrounding Lana Del Ray’s disastrous Saturday Night Live Performance is less about revelling in the misfortune of a fledgling starlet and more about what we are reminded of about the mechanisms of pop.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">It’s not hard to imagine the board meeting where they looked at the sales of artists like Amy Winehouse and Adele - who have had the two highest selling albums of the century - and pondered the trend for tortured twentysomething divas with a reinvigorated 60s sound.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">In seeing Del Ray’s Disney princess physique and ‘are they real?’ lips they had the perfect puppet to then place the classic sound mantle on top of. Even though Adele and Amy had their Svengalis, pulling the strings and creating their sound from the sidelines (Amy only ‘discovered’ her sound when she becan working with Mark Ronson) unlike Del Ray, there is a strong sense of authorship over the their words and sentiments and above all the performance conviction to pull it off. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Watching Del Ray on SNL was like watching the talent portion of a Miss World event, where you think to yourself ‘she better look good in a swimsuit’.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">But pop’s shameless mass production of a successful model is as old as the genre itself. When a Winehouse drops off the charts, there grows two Duffy’s in her place. Usually the ‘original’ is of it’s own creation, while those that follow are hurried into production to make the most of the growing trend: The Beatles and The Monkeys for example. Yet in Del Ray we can see that the mannequin was rushed to the store before the paint had a chance to dry.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The reason we reject the Lana formula – which we usually swallow without too much hesitation - is because she’s claiming to be something that is not pop. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Name checking “Nirvana, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Bod Dylan, Eminem – all the greats in every genre” (which for me will go down as the defining statement of her career) is going into dangerous territory. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">She is referencing artists close to the independent heart of music in a flimsy attempt to ape what Lady Gaga has done recently: to align herself with brands that you are familiar with to know where she fits it. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The whole Lana Del Ray package seems like an exercise in clever trend forecasting. The A&R team that has put her look, music videos and public image together have presented her in a way that attempts to be hip but it’s a surface illusion that doesn’t run deep enough to allow for any real authorship. There is not a real story yearning to be told, just the feeling that there is money to be made.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The idea of complete independence is always a fallacy in popular music. Even Nirvana themselves had a team of people responsible for their global marketing and the machine that allowed the business of being Nirvana. In Del Ray it’s all ‘business’ and not enough ‘show’. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The hit of her recent album ‘Video Games’, is a lovely wailing ode to a nostalgic moment and would have been the perfect beginnings of a career that should have allowed her the chance to learn her craft while she played small shows and developed into a performing artist that was hopefully more than a pretty face and a mediocre voice. Hell, even Britney dances.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Are we so obvious as consumers that you can feed us the imitation warbling of a tragic deep south heroine of yesteryear, repackaged for Gen Y complete with all the indie trimmings of a Williamsburg artiste?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Sadly, we’ve come to accept an awful little from pop in terms of what we’ll swallow before we start to look at the ingredients. One of the most startling points that the success of Lana Del Ray makes is the maintenance of our fascination with beauty.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">If Lana looked like Amy or was a bigger figure gal like Adele, she would need to be as talented to have 27 million hits on Youtube.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">Popular music today is, as it ever was, a visual medium as much as any other.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">SNL - The Beginning of the end: </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9zrvD-o8cII" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">The MTV interview:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G1F7toKvICs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-49208552084474088192010-08-30T20:54:00.000-07:002010-09-04T00:40:34.978-07:00My Favourite Madonna Videos - PART 2<object style="background-image:url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/GS6FCoq349o/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GS6FCoq349o?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GS6FCoq349o?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>
<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><b>HUMAN NATURE (1995)<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir: Jean-Baptiste Mondino<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Madonna suffered one of her greatest career setbacks with her publishing of the ‘Sex’ book in 1992. The book of soft-core pornographic photos and erotic prose, bound in a metallised plastic cover was released at the same time as the Erotica album. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It featured cross marketing between platforms: the Super 8mm ‘behind the scenes’ footage of the photo shoot for the 200 page book ended up being used as the music video for the release of the song ‘Erotica’ as well as a source for still images for the book, tying all three releases together, the success of one instantly crossing over to the others.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Controversy surrounding the book (the usual boycotting by religious groups etc) seemed to overshadow all else, and the ground-breaking R’n’B album with a notable hip-hop influence – a completely new direction for any mainstream (white) female artist of the early 90s – was disregarded. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In spite of the book selling out twice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(it is the highest selling coffee table book of all time) it was also the cause for a communal backlash against Madonna, the status quo believing this time she had gone too far.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Yet three years on from the release of Erotica, and reassured by the success of the Girlie Show world tour and the release of ballads “I’ll remember” and “Take a Bow”, Madonna decided to publicly discuss her feelings towards the Sex book incident with the release of the song ‘Human Nature’<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;"><i>"express yourself, don't repress yourself...</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;">
<i>I'm not sorry. It's human nature. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;"><i>I'm not your bitch. Don't hang your shit on me." <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;"><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;">The accompanying video, directed by long time collaborator Mondino (who previously directed the controversial <i>Open Your Heart</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;"> (about a little boy and a stripper) and Justify My Love (group sex, trannies and bondage). </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the clip – inspired by the work of satirical S&M comic book artist </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Stanton"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#0C3E96;">Eric Stanton</span></a> -</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Madonna makes a commentary on her situation in light of the public’s response to sexual themes by exploring the notion of ‘bondage’. The metaphor simultaneously making a point about the bound state of the public’s attitude and at the same time embodying the thing that they are shocked and challenged by.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">“Did I have a point of view? Oops!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I didn’t know I couldn’t talk about you”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Throughout the clip are many references to breaking free of restraint – restraint caused by what? The answer is shaved into the back of the head of one of the dancers in the opening shot: “fear”.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the opening choreography, five dancers bind Madonna with her own arms before slamming her parted legs shut.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Symbolism continues throughout the film as she, dressed as the PVC-bound ‘black sheep’ slams herself against the walls of a white box in a dance symbolising an attempt to break free.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Human Nature is a comment on our very human inclination to restrict ourselves when it comes to sexuality. Something which, even fifteen years later, rings true. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It should also be noted that Christina Aguilera used many of the ideas and images from both this clip and Madonna’s Express Yourself for the promo of her song ‘Not Myself Tonight’ – the difference being that while Madonna’s imagery told a story that addressed a deeper agenda, Christina’s choice to imitate the original is purely for the purpose of entertainment. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><b>
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NOTHING REALLY MATTERS</b></span><span lang="EN-AU"> (1997)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir.: Johan Renek<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Album: Ray of Light<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Two very important things occurred in the lead up to the production of the album ‘Ray of Light’ of 1997 (her most commercially and critically successful to date): she underwent six months of voice coaching to be able to tackle the role of Evita which she had vehemently campaigned for. Secondly, she gave birth to her first child, Lourdes. The latter proving to inspire such a massive shift in the artist that Ray of Light is about Madonna’s rebirth – and her new found spirituality was just a mere part of that. The Fifth single from the hugely successful album is the song that deals directly with that transformation. Having been originally inspired by the book ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ and as an ode to the birth of her daughter, Madonna explores the humbling nature of the experience by embracing the mantle of ‘geisha’.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The employment of the visual metaphor of the geisha then allows for the exploration of the Japanese style of fringe-culture dance known as ‘butoh’. Butoh first appeared in Japan after WWII, particularly following student riots and a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;">ppeared as a reaction against the contemporary dance scene. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;">In a seismic shifting of old versus new Madonna finds one of her most conceptual clips in the Juxtaposition of one Japanese tradition with another cultural phenomenon that specifically rallies against tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Helvetica;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The video features Madonna cradling a transparent sack filled water. Not only is the sack in place of a baby, alluding to the song’s purpose, but water is symbolic of the unconscious mind, the place of the birth of ideas: Madonna is literally paying homage to the birth of her daughter as the origin of her new found creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The setting is the on the surface Japanese, yet it is compromised by a complimentary Swedish design influence, no doubt due to Swedish director Renek (creative partner of frequent Madonna collaborator Jonas Akerland). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The jilted choreography of the dancers is made all the more alien by the fact that they are all Swedish-born Japanese. Madonna’s free-style butoh-inspired dancing is strangely staccato as it moves from the bound traditional to the liberated free-form.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Besides the clips exquisite look and technical precision, there is a edgy, performance-art vibe present. Audiences would have been challenged by the awkward shuffling of the painted, seemingly possessed Japanese minions – while Madonna’s geisha dance is transfigured to the point of seeming surreal. The inspiration of the clip owes as much to artist Bjork as it does to Japan and it’s refreshingly abstract quality is the work of an artist at the height of her creative and personal freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><b>
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AMERICAN LIFE</b></span><span lang="EN-AU"> – Original Clip (pulled by Madonna after airing only once)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Album: American Life (2003)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Jonas Ackerlund<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Madonna has perpetually pitched herself as ‘the rebel’. She has rebelled against everything from parental figures (‘Pappa Don’t Preach’ – uniting her predominantly teenage mid 80s audience) to rebelling against the constraints of organised religion (‘Like a Prayer’) to sexual identity (‘Erotica’, the ‘Sex’ book and her whole early 90s, cropped hair, ripped quads pseudo-lesbian moment) right up until the early noughties circa The War on Terror. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It was at this time that Madonna came up with one of her most dynamic and cutting edge videos to date – one that would be pulled from circulation before going public.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">By 2003 Madonna’s strangle-hold on the pop industry seemed to be waning in the wake of the tween pop boom of Britney, Christina, Jessica, Mandy, and everyone else who took and punt at being the princess of pop. She was now married with children, had rediscovered her faith, written an album about it (Ray of Light) and she had lost the fighting urge – or sho she may have feared.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">But the war in Iraq gave her something new to rebel against and she set about devising a clip with controverisal Swedish director Jonas Ackerlund (who went on to do Gaga’s ‘Paparazzi’ and ‘Telephone’)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The clip features a fashion parade in which fashionistas and celebrity look-alikes watch as military-inspired fashions parade down a runway. As the verses intensify, so too do the ‘fashion victims’ and pretty soon children and limbless mine-victims are being dragged down the catwalk. Hauntingly, the crowds get more and more excited as the violence intensifies: a brilliantly chilling commentary on the public’s support for the war on terror.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Madonna, meanwhile, in another part of the building, joins an all-girl militia of ‘bigger back up dancers and bursts forth onto the runway riding a Mini-Cooper fit with a water cannon and proceeds to do her ‘white-chick soy latte rap’ while taking out the audience before throwing a grenade into the crowd. One version has it land and the clip ends before it goes off, while another (and best) version sees a George Bush look alike grab the grenade, which is actually a lighter – and use it to light a cigar.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The genius clip sought to highlight the irony with which she raps about doing yoga and pilates – listing her self indulgences only to suggest that she is as much a part of the problem as everyone else. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Then around the time of release, as tensions were mounting about the idea of troops entering Iraq, The Dixie Chicks made a statement to the media that was deemed anti-Bush and therefor anti-American. Aparently not even Madonna is infallible against the mainstream’s fear of discussing sex and politics and fearing a backlash similar to that of her ‘Sex’ book saga, she pulled the clip, stating it was ‘Out of respect to the troops.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Alas, due to the pulling of the clip, and it being replaced by the boring footage of her singing directly to camera dressed like a general (which was originally featured in 2 second grabs to highlight key phrases in the song) the message and most importantly, the irony was lost on her primary audience: thus America never quite understood American Life and the song and the album was considered one of her greatest failures to date.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><b>
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HUNG UP</b></span><span lang="EN-AU"> (2005)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Johan Renek<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Madonnas perspective as a performer is framed by her training as a dancer. It is the craft in which she first trained, through which she first experienced performance and married it to self expression. It was the craft she left home with, travelling to New York from Detroit as a seventeen year old to become a professional dancer. Sentiments about her love for dancing, in particular losing herself on the dance floor are present in songs ‘Into the Groove’ (1985) “</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;">Only when I’m dancing can i feel this free</span><span lang="EN-AU">” and ‘Heartbeat’ (2008) “</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;">for me it’s an escape, cause dancing makes me feel beautiful</span><span lang="EN-AU">”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">For the first few years of her life in New York Madonna was an impoverished street urchin: living in squats and apparently eating out of rubbish bins. It was on the dance floor (of Manhattan’s Danceteria) that Madonna made the friends and contacts which allowed her survive the city and eventually get her first record deal. In every account of that period between age 17 and breaking through at 26 recall her affinity with club culture – as a lifestyle and means of survival. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It is for this reason that the video for Hung Up, made as the artist was approaching fifty as was one of the wealthiest women in the world, resonates with a sense of truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The great leveller that is the dance floor unification – and the growing intensity of a night out is the theme of the video. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It starts by showing us the idiosyncratic routine of a group of disco enthusiasts on the afternoon leading up to the point at which they will all collide.
<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The choice to represent Madonna in the vein of ‘<i>Saturday Night Fever’</i></span><span lang="EN-AU">: the 70s leotard and rehearsal studio, the fist-rolling group choreography of the climax, is as much an ode to Travolta as it is a paean to the carefree sentiment of the time. <i>Saturday Night Fever</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> was based on a New York Times article from 1976 (“Tribal Rights of the New Saturday Night”) that discussed a period of hedonism for the working class in light of a period of war-free America and economic liberty. Without a war to rally against, there was nothing left to do but ‘just dance’. After the misfire of her weighted “anti-war” effort, <i>American Life,</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> Madonna, intentionally or not, made a album that aimed to encourage just that.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>simplicity of the theme is actually quite telling: a lone elder rehearses in isolation to unite in dance in a room full of kids on a platform that makes her feel most beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I’ve often said that if a film is like a novel, a short film is like a poem and a music video is like a collage: a single idea explored for a few minutes by a series of sewn-together images.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The framework offered by a song – its length, context and a participating ‘fan’ audience allow it to be a medium for exploration and experimentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The average music video viewer would look at a clip longer than they would a painting. For the duration of the song, one surrenders to a journey into the abstract in a way that they may not when consuming feature film.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">To dance is to ‘physicalize’ music. The music video is pop art’s extension of this. Madonna’s video career, beginning a year after the launch of MTV, maps the evolution of the craft of pop music as we know it today: as much a visual medium as it is for audio. As a pioneer of the genre, Madonna has harnessed the music video form and used it to define herself as an artist.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Although acknowledged as the most successful pop musician of her time, I believe Madonna’s true artistry won’t be fully understood until the end of her career - most likely the end of her life, when all of her choices will be seen as part of a whole. Where the work is not seen as part of the life – rather is the life <i>is</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> the work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Yet within Madonna’s videos we can gain insight into her process and inspirations – how she wants us to receive the music, and the frame through which she wants us to view her. More than any other musician, each and every creative evolution comes intrinsically linked to an image, created though the theatrical conventions of costume and make-up and enhanced by the decision to work with a revolving team of technicians. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">To that end, there is no greater way to regard the artist than via her video collection, and therefore no greater way to gauge understanding of the way a pop artist works: referencing and repackaging archetypes via concepts that not only appeal to the masses but seek to elevate their awareness and understanding of art, the world and themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica, serif;font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:17px;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Written by Dan Brophy</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-23545497553533888392010-08-19T01:17:00.000-07:002010-08-22T21:05:19.436-07:00My Favourite Madonna Videos - PART I<div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"></span>More than just a disposable promotional device, a good music video seems to stay with us for a lifetime. While the movie musical falls in and out of favour, music videos offer the mainstream access to contemporary dance and movement that resonates with us on an innate level. Their size and budget offer a platform for new ideas that then feed large scale entertainment across other disciplines.</p><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the medium of music video there is none such better than Madonna: whose videos are more important to her career than anything recorded in a studio or performed live on stage. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Trained first and foremost as a dancer, it is in her physicality that Madonna best embodies the ideas expressed in her music, whether in terms of her image transformations or the ways in which she relays herself in the moving and still image.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Ironically, Madonna’s feature film career has been a bizarre series of failures compared to the response to music video work. Her ability to succeed in one filmic medium completely belies her failure to adapt to the other. She is so egomaniacally bound to her identification with the role of being Madonna, to take on another mantle is, it seems, an impossibility. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Her truest skill is that of the manager of her brand: choosing whom to collaborate with, forging an endlessly evolving brand identity and a continuous sense of renewal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A long time coming, the follwing list of favourites was chosen not only for their cinematic take on the medium but also for their significance in alluding to greater themes in the career of the artist as a whole. In terms of examining the medium, there is none better than the career of Madonna.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">
</span></p><span lang="EN-AU"><div style="text-align: center;"><object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/GsVcUzP_O_8/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"></object></div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><b>EXPRESS YOURSELF</b></span><span lang="EN-AU"> (1989)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. David Fincher</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Album: Like a Prayer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Madonna’s awareness of the history of her craft has inspired and delineated her work since the beginning. The product is as much about the packaging as anything else. Yet what began early in her career with the introduction of African American and Hispanic culture to white middle-class society through costume and dance evolved to the invocation of classic art and film references. These not only gave insight to her inspirations as an artist but also, like brand association, aligned Madonna’s public image with higher art, allowing her to further push the more controversial elements of her agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Her evolution from club singer (‘Holiday’) to misfit (‘Pappa Don’t Preach’) then evolved with the associations she made of herself to Marilyn Monroe with the video for ‘Material Girl’ a direct replica of a scene from <i>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)</i></span><span lang="EN-AU">. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Since the beginning of her career, Madonna has taken classic references and modernised them. The melding of old and new ‘reinvents’ the reference – and our opinion of the artist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">In 1989’s ‘Express Yourself’ Madonna and director David Fincher compared the sexual power balance between male and female with the social crisis between workers and owners as part of the capitalist structure as presented in the 1927 German expressionist film <i>Metropolis.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The theme is so intellectual it would have completely evaded the target audience – especially since dissection via blog was still a long way away.
However, the video’s success lies in the expression of ideas in every element of the storytelling: from dance to costume to images presented by the artist in various dioramas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the clip we see Madonna as representative of the ruling clas, choosing the worker which will be ‘hers’, in an apartment atop what is known in the original as ‘The Tower of Babel’. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Madonna shows herself both as the masculine ideal (e.g. in a scene in which she grabs her crotch while wearing a pinstripe power suit and doing a dance in which she emulates masculine arm gestures) and plays the feminine, submissive role: crawling around on all fours and chained to the bed by her neck. However Madonna has been quoted as saying that the chains represent desire, and they maintain their feminie strength because they are seen to be self-inflicted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">There is also the symbolic notion that she starts off sitting at home alone – stroking her cat, until the cat – and extension of her longing, or maybe just her ‘pussy’ - seeks out the man who will ‘tame’ it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">As the empress is never seen away from her tower, she is only ever ‘playing’ a submissive role in the bedroom, and thus alluding to the strength available to all women to find the power to embrace the songs title and ‘express themselves’.</span></p>
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</span></p><span lang="EN-AU"><div style="text-align: center;"><object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/GuJQSAiODqI/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"></object></div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><b>VOGUE</b></span><span lang="EN-AU"> (1991)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. David Fincher</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Album: Dick Tracy (soundtrack)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The video for Vogue marks the point at which Madonna most notably brought the underground to the mainstream - repackaging it in a way that was palatable and relatable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">While ‘reappropriation’ is a common tool in her work, it is seen here to great success, as captured by director David Fincher (in their third collaboration after <i>Express Yourself</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> and <i>Oh Father.</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> Fincher has since gone on to direct the films Seven, Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It was in the African-American gay clubs of Manhattan that ‘vogueing’ originated. Originally a form of ‘dance off’ in which you would try to out-do the other person with a display of mockery, the trend was originally captured in the 1990 documentary ‘Paris is Burning’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Madonna has often identified with the African American and Gay communities. The record cover for her first ever single, ‘Everybody’ didn’t feature her image, rather, the that of black kids playing in the street – the record label, figuring her for a one hit wonder, though they had more chance of selling records if people thought she was black. While it was in a gay club in Detroit in the 70s where she first stepped on to a dance floor- beginning a life-long love affair with the disco - and the wider gay community.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">While gay culture is often unacknowledged by the mainstream, African American gay culture is all but invisible. For Madonna to then choose to introduce this flamboyant form of dance to the world was as liberating as it was catching.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The way in which she did this however was to amalgamate ‘vogueing’ with the fantasy projected by the classic (white) icons of Hollywood yesteryear. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">One of the main ideas raised in the <i>Paris is Burning</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> documentary was that its black, working-class subjects would most likely never be rich or famous due to their social standing, yet while on the floor competing in the drag ball they could become who they always wished they would be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">“When all else fails and you long to be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Something better than you are today<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">I know a place where you can get away<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">It's called the dance floor...”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">As inspiration for the very specific black and white imagery of the Vogue video Madonna and David Fincher used Hollywood photography of the 40s and 50s most notably that of the legendary German photographer Horst P Horst: </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">"Mainbocher Corset", "Lisa with Turban" (1940), and "Carmen Face Massage" (1946) are specifically replicated</span><span lang="EN-AU">. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Horst’s style would be later also be referenced for her ‘Sex’ book (1992). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Art Deco set design and the artwork of </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">deco artist Tamara De Lempicka also give the clip it’s old-Hollywood feel – the roman pillars favoured by the era offering a metaphorical and literal pedestal on which to pose and be admired.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The true genius of this amalgamation of ideas is in the cross-pollinating of cultures that are so uniquely ‘new’ black and ‘old’ white, yet the search for glamour that is found on the dancefloor – that great social equalliser – is able to be realted to by everyone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">"It makes no difference if you're black or white</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">If you're a boy or a girl</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">If the music's pumping it will give you new life</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">You're a superstar, yes, that's what you are, you know it."</span></p>
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</span></p><span lang="EN-AU"><div style="text-align: center;"><object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/Np_Y740aReI/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"></object></div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><span lang="EN-AU"><b>JUSTIFY MY LOVE</b></span><span lang="EN-AU"> (1990)</span><div><span lang="EN-AU">Dir: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
</span>Album: The Immaculate Collection
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The single ‘Justify My Love’ wasn’t released as part of an album, rather as a single for ‘The Immaculate Collection’. Upon it’s release, the video was banned by MTV, leading to the release of a VHS ‘video single’ - still the world’s best selling in it’s category.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The video showed a new direction for Madonna: it is the first time she actively harnessed the power of pushing the public’s tolerance towards overt sexuality, in particular attitudes towards BDSM and transvestisism.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Filmicly, it is a continuation of the ‘black and white photography’ look first explored on video in ‘Cherish’(1989), which was shot by famed photographer Herb Ritts. Again, by employing a photographer with heavily European style – this time fashion photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino – she aligns herself with European cinema greats like Catherine Deneuve, who was not only a common subject for Mondino, but who was also associated with a high-art take on S&M via the Luis Bunuel film of 1967, ‘Belle De Jour’. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The video for ‘Justify My Love’ (written by Prince protege Ingrid Chavez and Lenny Kravitz) is said to be inspired by the 1963 film </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;color:#262626;" lang="EN-US"><i>La Baie des Anges </i></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;color:#262626;" lang="EN-US">by Jacques Demy. Set in a hotel in Nice, it follows the love story of two compulsive gamblers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;color:#262626;" lang="EN-US">Infact, Madonna’s white-blonde hair is similar to the protagonist, played by another French actress of high regard with whom she aligns herself: </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Jeanne Moreau.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The look of the video was filmic, black and white, fashion photographic – a look explored again and again throughout the 90s (<i>Vogue, Erotica, I Want You, Secret</i></span><span lang="EN-AU">). To contrast then with the seedier elements of an underground world, ideas not yet explored in mainstream pop videos, would have made it shocking yet still palatable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The video opens with Madonna, dragging a heavy suitcase down a hotel corridor (her emotional baggage?) She walks past rooms where doors left ajar reveal clientele dressed in leather and corsetry. Inside her hotel room Madonna is seen to be seduced by model Tony Ward (who went on to become an underground gay cinema icon), and then his androgynous female double, this time while Tony watches. The film is given an even more abstract feel by the inter-cutting of a spandex-clad male dancer evoking erotic performance art in another room, and the images of transsexuals admiring themselves in the mirror. In another scene – the one resulting in the banning – a dominatrix dressed in a leather cap and suspenders over bare-breasts (similar to ensemble worn by French actress Charlotte Rampling in the Italian film ‘The Night Porter’) dominates Ward while Madonna watches.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The short film culminates with all the deviants from the previous scenes come together in the same room, lounging like the prelude to an orgy while Madonna can be seen walking down the same hallway – her suitcase lighter, supposedly having been reborn by the exploration of her desires.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In spite of the banning, the immense popularity and international chart success of the song and it’s ‘video single’ would reassure Madonna that she was invulnerable to the moral majority. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">After an 80s career that tackled taboos of religion and feminist politics, the video for <i>Justify My Love</i> ushered in the pivotal next stage of Madonna’s career - the very specific line of marketing she took in 1992 with the Erotica album and the simultaneous and highly controversial release of the ‘Sex’ book. Many biographers have referred to the very specific divide between the public's attitude to Madonna 'pre' and 'post' <i>Sex</i>.</span></p>
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</span></p><span lang="EN-AU"><div style="text-align: center;"><object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/CSaFgAwnRSc/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"></object></div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><b>BEDTIME STORY </b></span><span lang="EN-AU">Madonna (1995)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Mark Romanek</span></p>Album: Bedtime Stories
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This release marks the meeting of four genius creative minds: the lady herself singing a song written by Bjork in a clip directed by Mark Romanek and shot by cinematographer Harris Sevides in what was the time, the most expensive music video ever made (US $5 Million).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Bjork and Madonna had odd partnership over the track: Bjork, initially denying Madonna’s offer to collaborate on a song, refused to meet Madonna, instead penning her the track solo and communicating via their mutual producer Nelee Hooper. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Director Mark Romanek, one of the prominent music promo directors of the 90s reached something of a creative zenith with his video for Madonna’s Bedtime Story (his music video career highlights include: ‘Closer’ by Nine Inch Nails, ‘Criminal’ by Fiona Apple, ‘Got Til it’s Gone’ by Janet Jackson. A full list of his video credits can be found at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek#Music_video_filmography">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek#Music_video_filmography</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">While his long-time collaborator, cinematographer Harris Savides is has gone on to provide some of the most arresting images in cinema in recent years: <i>Milk, Zodiac, Birth, Elephant, Last Days</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> and Sophia Coppola’s upcoming <i>Somewhere</i></span><span lang="EN-AU">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">At the time of making ‘Bedtime Story’, Madonna was beginning to amass a large art collection, in particular that of female painters. Upon visiting her and viewing a painting in her collection, Romanek conceived of a clip inspired by its warm colour palate and comprising entirely of works by twentieth century female surrealists.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The result is a haunting, visually arresting netherworld, apparently that of Ms. Ciccone’s subconscious occurring while locked in a futuristic sleep chamber.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It is the layering of so many references of both female surrealism and religious iconography that give the clip an indecipherable and textured feel. It can therefore be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>enjoyed purely as eye-candy or as a text in itself: the video has since been officially inducted into Museum of Modern Art in New York (as well as Romanek’s video for Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Closer’)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The references:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Early in the video is the image of a large man with his back to us, referencing the 1991-92 work ‘Male Nude, Seen From Behind’ by Lucien Freud. Although himself not a surrealist (and male), he is the grandson of the man considered to be the “grandfather of psychoanalysis”, Sigmund Freud, master of dream interpretation.</span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9DpGZKF7E4tGZW_t6swjOARiiUi2QcJiw_GjOOJ1XSbslmsyS7vcGYDICFDRs0bwT-HkmDwftSjztuKM8Kqa6eylN93ZLBKA9W0jwYy1V58isVNlM1PTwIBfb_pAQ037HwBZJkOy4nOo/s1600/bs2.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9DpGZKF7E4tGZW_t6swjOARiiUi2QcJiw_GjOOJ1XSbslmsyS7vcGYDICFDRs0bwT-HkmDwftSjztuKM8Kqa6eylN93ZLBKA9W0jwYy1V58isVNlM1PTwIBfb_pAQ037HwBZJkOy4nOo/s400/bs2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508444620235606210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px; " /></a>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">From there, is interwoven the imagery of great female surrealists of the twentieth century: Madonna is seen bathing amongst the skulls of animals - </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><i>The Ends of the Earth (The ends of the Earth,</i></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> 1949), Leonor Fini. She then cups the water in her hands – referencing Remedios Varo’s <i>Nacer de nuevo (Reborn,</i></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> 1960).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLcycDwHdwHo_4jiCdQmQHCzn3qXonKU32oVR1zYD7EMEMxo5EOPYaXcgxUNUq5bdIeMsudUeTpt00rOLD_qMS9lSudl-tZfWmmy4M9sclFruFUfdOZV6hbYYsF4bsPzPAP_27tOBW_A/s1600/bs4.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLcycDwHdwHo_4jiCdQmQHCzn3qXonKU32oVR1zYD7EMEMxo5EOPYaXcgxUNUq5bdIeMsudUeTpt00rOLD_qMS9lSudl-tZfWmmy4M9sclFruFUfdOZV6hbYYsF4bsPzPAP_27tOBW_A/s400/bs4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508444953124925858" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 400px; " /></a>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnwlB1yFlJay1Q4QZ4YN9rvtepXtFcCrvJbxJPWl9t0xBgKXplt5upvsFsydK7EKqD_xnzGm0mBSksIkq7Bomfi-5TYR1S_1XOJGzm_ech50jUMjGgDjQ9oKb6F7jUqkuuS1R3k1LmPs/s1600/bs3.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnwlB1yFlJay1Q4QZ4YN9rvtepXtFcCrvJbxJPWl9t0xBgKXplt5upvsFsydK7EKqD_xnzGm0mBSksIkq7Bomfi-5TYR1S_1XOJGzm_ech50jUMjGgDjQ9oKb6F7jUqkuuS1R3k1LmPs/s400/bs3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508444948424529746" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 218px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Later she is seen to be singing to herself as two faces in hand-mirrors, taken from Varo’s <i>Los lovers (Lovers,</i></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> 1963).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">The choice of imagery, though seemingly random, is like a psychological free association: sleep = death, to awaken = rebirth. In the clip there are many images where sleep and death are aligned. At one stage a skeletal figure embraces Madonna as she sleeps, referencing <i>L'amitié (Friendship,</i></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"> 1958) Argentinian Leonor Fini.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIEzHwiRAcx_9C9v6VB_a5ghPyvyAX1REbaJ-00aW_eOXCUg-nUkisU7X-kbir7TirlQOC3CtTfdzkK3lxLCrih1WquuWBO17Sauck3vOkXdRLAyMC6FHrcA1_eqd4xVG6m0Me-l81Yk/s1600/bs12.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIEzHwiRAcx_9C9v6VB_a5ghPyvyAX1REbaJ-00aW_eOXCUg-nUkisU7X-kbir7TirlQOC3CtTfdzkK3lxLCrih1WquuWBO17Sauck3vOkXdRLAyMC6FHrcA1_eqd4xVG6m0Me-l81Yk/s400/bs12.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508445953932659826" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 400px; " /></a>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHxT-Aqhp2VPb63au1OSriwmhUxnnbOQQziPBma1xKze3hZltMJrSYFhOIOgC0iesUqSgoJRrdNIbQwober2hAhXNnhtSFdakWMC6V6DTRJIt836FP5ewAr0-UTWDn9PcCNie0ndal0M/s1600/bs10.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHxT-Aqhp2VPb63au1OSriwmhUxnnbOQQziPBma1xKze3hZltMJrSYFhOIOgC0iesUqSgoJRrdNIbQwober2hAhXNnhtSFdakWMC6V6DTRJIt836FP5ewAr0-UTWDn9PcCNie0ndal0M/s400/bs10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508444967116644722" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 214px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the climax of the song, Madonna flies down a corridor while a stunned child looks on in fright - a reference to Leonora Fini’s </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><i>Red Vision </i></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">of 1984. The expression of the child also reads as an allusion to the sensation of paralysis commonly experienced in dreams during REM sleep.</span></p><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The overall result is a series of images that suggest the theme of life, death and rebirth through art, in particular surrealism, which is the art of the unconscious, the exploration of dreams - where “words are useless”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Through the multiple and fractured references of the work of established artists as collected by Madonna, it’s as if we the audience are actually inside her subconscious mind, as she would, quite literally, dream a dream fuelled by her consumption of art. Thus it is also a testament to the alchemy of creative process as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The choice to make a video in which she aligns herself with female ‘high artists’ of the twentieth century is also a deliberate brand association tactic. After the ‘Sex’ book and subsequent disregard of the <i>Erotica</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> album, <i>Bedtime Story</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> signifies a shift in the way in which she wanted the public to view her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Using predominantly South American artists as a reference for the video was, intentionally or not, a suggestion of her following reinvention via her role in Evita. No longer content to be the provocateur, her more interesting makeover would be that of ‘the artistorcrat’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A few years later Madonna would marry a blue-blooded English man, Guy Ritchie, rather than remain a single-mother to a child born out of wedlock to her Spanish personal trainer, Carlos Leon. She would also only choose film roles from this point that allowed the public the view her through the frame of 'the lady', as in ‘Swept Away’, compared with films like ‘Body of Evidence’ that she made in the early 90s that substantiated her earlier incantation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">With Madonna it seems the ‘work’ is so inextricably linked with the ‘life’ that she manages both as one and the same, merging and cross promoting between them so that they are indistinguishable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">END PART I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Next week: Part II 1995 - Present.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Written by Daniel Brophy</p><p class="MsoNormal">Stills care of minsane.com.br</p><!--EndFragment--><!--EndFragment--></div>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-4425114254438479822010-06-25T21:05:00.000-07:002010-06-25T22:25:09.108-07:00'The Winner' Media Screening at MIFA Photo Gallery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrAuX0vysZD_oZFGSfkTuwBVrI_XxlUFzUMJQ90JUGksjo_w8AUujbaT38XL_brPHbERMXYmiCHJvZ1n1FaRaKLW7HgoVc9mOY_Piiqs4rCC1zQqOiDRH2Jv50oBVmSJiCi6oVHaM6TW8/s1600/WINNER+launch+group+1.jpg">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">ON COLLABORATION</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> On Tuesday June 15, I was honoured to show my short film, The Winner, to a room full of some of Melbourne’s most interesting and dynamic creatives: film makers, actors, artists, photographers, designers, DJs, ad and PR people, chefs and dancers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">As proud as I was to show my work, the result of a year’s worth of thought and energy and the generous contribution of many, more proud still was I to show it to a room full of people whose work I admired.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">These photos are a memento of the night that was and they come with the following reminder: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">You are part of one of the most culturally gifted and creatively vibrant climates in the world today. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This generation is cutting the chains of cultural inferiority that held back its predecessors. Something new is emerging. It’s a movement you can see splayed on walls of laneways, you can feel it underground parties in abandoned warehouses, in art installations and ‘zines just for the sake of getting across some new idea. Just for art’s sake. These movements are joining the establishments of festival and fashion that have already put Melbourne on the map - but now it’s time to take it one step further. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Our worldwide awareness and its technological facilitation have meant that now more than ever we are capable of making world-standard work from this city.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <span lang="EN-AU">There is a tendency in a small industry to play one’s cards close, for fear that there isn’t enough work to support the demand. We are of the fortunate/misfortunate generation of creatives who were never raised to expect it: there is no work unless you make it yourself. To that end I will say this: <i>The Winner</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> would never have come about were it not for the joy of collaboration and the generosity of artists who just longed to perform their craft.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Look around you: the next creative person you meet could be your next great collaboration that the cause of your best work to date.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dan Brophy, June 2010</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', serif; font-size: small; ">All photography by Tom Blachford and Charlie Brophy. Image composition by Dan Brophy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">More images coming soon via Facebook!</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p> <!--EndFragment-->Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-34252874288396321882010-05-27T23:45:00.000-07:002010-05-28T01:07:31.310-07:00Behind The Themes: Music Video for ‘In It Together’ by Human Life<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The concept for the video was spawned by an idea formulated years ago in which the camera were the point of view of a dancer in a pitch-black dance party. As we (the protagonist) run though the darkened space, we encounter a variety of dancers, ‘party monsters’, temporarily illuminated for a moment’s dance before we move onto another one. I had been longing to explore this concept for ages, and I thought that in ‘It It Together’ I finally had my chance to do so.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RpBwJqm50wsVB5zGTJJolHMDkCadjA3oHmGucQrA1Ep8XNnOt0_41tuQWRLgPc5aOf95Y6XpGrOGl2U2Io2DOhffXk2fTJU09I2Ou0UR91nMaKL_AXKB54lOoJAWZNWdMOoh5wvHjBE/s1600/back+garden.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RpBwJqm50wsVB5zGTJJolHMDkCadjA3oHmGucQrA1Ep8XNnOt0_41tuQWRLgPc5aOf95Y6XpGrOGl2U2Io2DOhffXk2fTJU09I2Ou0UR91nMaKL_AXKB54lOoJAWZNWdMOoh5wvHjBE/s400/back+garden.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476223597800919954" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Through the process of collaboration, however, the idea developed: who was this lone dancer, motivated by fear and wonder for the great, dark disco unknown? Where has he come from and what is he looking for? And once he gets there, what sort of creatures would be lurking in the dark?</span></span></span></p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
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Though even up until the editing stage, I didn’t realise this would be the case.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">We shot a lot of footage of the hero’s adventure though inner-city back streets and equally as much of solo dancers and crowd scenes, so much so we could have made two clips. It’s almost a shame the song wasn’t three minutes longer as there were five weeks worth of costume design and production by a team of six amazingly talented costumiers, I would have loved to have featured them more. However, I think that’s one of the clip’s strengths: the illusion that there is so much more here than we have shown you - which there was!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivRCSnTAMCN3BByz5fxchdSoglfBmunjO4lnzlGpg-cm5GMW5HPypF_xlc_Gw1J8KSi7KA-_J5T4DZeRrDqXn2he5IOLafs0cMtgBsyEonbjelkXwE2eSNDnV5L6J6pDvBkKHian8uetY/s1600/bluebeard.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEc5DsX3P4KeCDBqIMdN-7_SAM-AsHUjpl3zVmirlPoCYijtJp2Ggl653RM9Dsn7QYurxyJzDP-O6XrfOeg6nphFQN_BZ4mdmU3dRWHQ53pkNDWrzO240kKSXmzg40YmN2tTFdGOduTZg/s400/In+It+Together+-Deluxe+Mode.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476223406497109634" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrByEgYwa213v-Z4vGCmeVY1CNkXdi7sI3y_gWA5RmddNUvryFMa8ENnknxsm3_uQIeJQD6Z3uImVIGvJEU6ZLPFX5C9WCX-K7xmhGaCQcaElH2n4KkRTSNG0OnCcIvqt8zFCkGrF4Cg/s1600/feathers.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrByEgYwa213v-Z4vGCmeVY1CNkXdi7sI3y_gWA5RmddNUvryFMa8ENnknxsm3_uQIeJQD6Z3uImVIGvJEU6ZLPFX5C9WCX-K7xmhGaCQcaElH2n4KkRTSNG0OnCcIvqt8zFCkGrF4Cg/s400/feathers.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476223395553712050" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The film’s look comes down to the production design of Jay Matthews. I had been such a big fan of his blog (</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://jaybarrymatthews.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">http://jaybarrymatthews.blogspot.com/</span></span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">) for months before meeting him, but once we became friends and the idea of a collaboration came up, I knew that his aesthetic applied to a music video (or even a film – if they were to remake ‘Holy Mountain’) would be a civil union made in heaven.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Jay works using mini-narratives of his own, so even I as the director wasn’t aware of the stories behind each of the thirteen looks he designed for the dancers – stories of political upheaval and tribal conflict that manifested in the amazing garments that magnificently come together as one cohesive look for the underground utopia. Some of the costumes were also designed by baby geniuses Jack Mac and Emman Debattista (the ‘rope gridiron player’ and the ‘blonde afro bandage’ looks respectively.)</span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
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I met George at the Melbourne indie nightclub ‘Sorry Grandma’ (RIP) and I was amazed – and delighted – that he’d never so much as modeled before.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I really came to understand what people mean when they say he or she is “a natural”. Just by putting the camera on George and asking him to do the most menial task it is instantly alluring. George the epitome of ‘the boy’ in the Germaine Greer sense: men and women, gay and straight are drawn to him - possibly due to a mix of burgeoning sexual potency and innocence – a perfect starting point for the journey of the protagonist.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
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</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-47195238810912891652010-05-10T20:02:00.000-07:002010-05-10T23:15:43.215-07:00Top 10 Music Videos<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A some of you may know I have recently premiered a music video which I directed for the LA electro-pop band Human Life (hopefully justifying my hiatus from the High Horse stables). The clip has been a huge success, and so I thought I would, in the spirit of my ‘Top 10 Favourite Movies’ post, make a similar list for the music videos which influenced me the most. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The music video is an integral element of the modern day film world. They provide a corner stone for the youth film diet: even when our attention spans are incapable of receiving conceptual fare of feature length, we can still consume the art house hors d’oeuvre that is the ‘promo’. And although they were originally designed with the intention of selling albums, they have since become an art form unto themselves. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">By the time MTV launched in August 1981, music videos were common promotional tool for record companies. In 1975, when director Bruce Gowers brought the cover of the album ‘Queen II’ to life, the band Queen created what is considered to be the first ever music video - not just the recording of a live performance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It wasn’t until 1980 however that the filmic potential of the medium was really capitalised on via the special effects-laden video for The Jacksons’ <i>Can You Feel It</i></span><span lang="EN-AU">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the thirty year since, music video as a medium has boomed (1995 saw the most expensive video ever made - US$7 million - for the Michael/Janet Jackson single <i>Scream</i></span><span lang="EN-AU">) and busted. In a post-piracy era there is less and less money to be made in album sales so focus is being brought back towards the live show and thus the music video is a lesser priority.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Music video is a medium which has provided a platform for so many of the Gen X auteur directors we celebrate today: David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Where the Wild Things Are), Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep), Jonothan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) have been working with artists like Bjork, Madonna, Kylie, Radiohead, Daft Punk and The Beastie Boys since the 90s.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The expediency of the music video turn around and relative creative freedom allow a public space for experimentation and exploration that my not be granted in a feature film where bigger budgets promote minimal risk. Music video has somehow slipped though the cracks of film commerce to be a medium that celebrates the surreal and the subversive – in an industry that can so often play it safe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A music video’s success is usually gauged on the way in which it frames the song. A music video can make or break, by giving us visual associations to hook our understanding of the music to a place or a moment. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The clips I have selected as my Top 10 are chosen for the way in which they resonated with me filmicly, not just because I liked the song or the artist (though those factors are inevitabily influential). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">These are the source of the seeds that have been sewn in my left hemisphere – the fruits of which, ultimately form the foundations of my work today. They may either offer you a chance to discover some great new works, revisit some old favourites, or possibly inspire you in your own creative pursuits (or dancefloor dominations).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Enjoy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">ALL IS FULL OF LOVE Bjork (1999)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Chris Cunningham</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A sexual ideal is explored on a sci-fi tangent: two androgynous robots with Bjork’s face make love in an exquisitely sterile space station which calls to mind the 70s ‘Star Wars’ ideal of future perfection.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The track is minimalist, like the setting (and not the album version). The success of the video is that, even in it’s slow pacing and lingering edits, audience attention is captivated due to the composition of the frames and the beauty of the design.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Unlike other clips which try and give it to you hard and fast, <i>All Is Full of Love</i></span><span lang="EN-AU"> offers a slow, deep vision of the act of love, made acceptable to our sociological censor due to it’s synthetic subjects, yet it is no less affecting: because the avatars aren’t human, they allow us to focus on the beauty of the connection.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Further viewing by director Chris Cunningham: music videos for ‘Come to Daddy’ and ‘Window Licker’ by Aphex Twin; DVD-release experimental film ‘Rubber Johnny’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">FLASHING LIGHTS Kanye West (2007)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir: Spike Jonze and Kanye West</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">All things being said about the questionable sanity of Kanye West, for a video to be comprised entirely of one shot played out in slow motion is a defiant attempt at pushing an artistic bent. Kanye co-directed this clip with Spike Jonze and the video shows a playboy model, Rita G, pulling up in a Ford Mustang on the outskirts of Las Vegas, removing her clothes and wig in order to burn them (a gratuitous yet clever way of keeping a distinctive section of his fanbase engaged in a clip that is snail-paced in comparison to most BET videos). She pops the boot of the trunk to reveal Kanye bound and gagged (a nod to his increasingly ego-maniacal public image?) and then kisses him. As the camera pulls away she bludgeons him repeatedly with a shovel before the video cuts to black revealing the title of the song in red almost a minute before the album version of the song ends.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A refreshingly twisted, sexy and tension-filled offering for a mainstream artist.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Further viewing by director Spike Jonze: music videos ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ by Bjork; and the films ‘Being John Malckovich’, ‘Adaptation’ and internet mini-feature: ‘I’m Here’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">SINGLE LADIES Beyonce (2008)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Jake Nava</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It seemed almost radical for a video to champion dance in the way that Single Ladies does, especially since the jump-off point for the choreography came from Bob Fosse rather than Michael Jackson - often considered the source of music video choreography.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The story behind the clip’s simplicity is that the videos for ‘If I were a Boy’ and Single Ladies’ were shot in tandem in order to be released simultaneously, however the budget for both videos was used almost entirely on ‘If I Were a Boy’ (black and white photography, large-scale location shoots telling the story of a New York City police woman tempted into infidelity - no doubt attempting to assist Beyonce in her transition to non-musical film acting) thus rendering the ‘Single Ladies’ video a comparatively streamlined affair. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">And to what end: As a testament to the skills of the performer, the video allows us to watch, unhindered by effects or shift in location or costume (the usual tricks), dance for dance sake, not to titillate or distract. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The dance on which the now famous ‘Single Ladies’ dance has gone through many a genesis: originally a variety show performance designed by Fosse for Broadwaystar Gwen Vernon to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show entitled ‘Mexican Breakfast’ in which she was flanked by two dancers in the ‘lead and follow’ style (which had since became popular in African American gay clubs in Atlanta). This, now seemingly ironic footage was then dubbed with the contemporary song “Walk It Out” by Unk and put on Youtube - which Beyonce then saw and decided she wanted to modernize.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A routine was created which was originally much more jazz/hip hop based, until it was brought back to much more closely representing the original.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Further viewing by director Jake Nava: music videos: “Crazy I Love” by Beyonce, “If You Seek Amy” by Britney Speers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO Bat For Lashes (2007)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Dougal Wilson</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Pre-empting the emergence of ‘fixie’ culture and executing a simple idea with logistical wit, the video features singer Natasha Kahn riding a bicycle down an isolated forest road, flanked by a swarm of reappearing BMX Bandits wearing animal masks.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The clips strength lies in its simplicity. Ironic, considering the challenges presented in shooting an action-based video with only one edit point. However, the chaos taking place around the singer punctuates her performance rather than distracts from it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“What’s a Girl To Do” manages to tick all the right boxes: referencing a culture of the day, appealing to the ‘internet phenomenon’ trend of “pass this on” high-concept videos while quite literally keeping the beat of the tune perfectly.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">EVERYTIME Britney Spears (2004)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. David LaChapelle</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">As an eerily pre-emptive suggestion as to the psychological public-undressing that Britney would undergo only a few years later, a pre-head-shaving Britney plays herself in the story of a starlet on the verge of a breakdown that may or may not end in her suicide.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The work of photographer David LaChapelle defined celebrity portraiture in the late 90s and created the garish colour palate that would resonate across the spectrum of creative media of the time. He notoriously plays with juxtapositions of the glamorous and the grotesque: the American dream realised to the point of gluttony. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This clip unfolds like a diorama of Britney’s life, to which the tune is a bizarre music-box lullaby. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">At this stage in her career, the cracks were beginning to form in Britney’s ‘All American Girl’ façade, yet she was still a chart-topping hit-maker. It was a bold move, then, for a director to make a clip based on the seemingly imagined suggestion of what was really going on behind the scenes: that this was a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Never before has a mainstream pop starlet’s troubled existence become the basis for a pop video. If anyone was going to celebrate the celebrity dream unravelled, it was going to be David LaChapelle. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Further viewing by director David LaChapelle: music videos: ‘Dirrty’ and ‘Can’t Hold Us Down’ by Christina Aguilera, ‘Not If You Were The Last Junkie’ by The Dandy Warhols; the dance documentary ‘Rize’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">NOVEMBER RAIN Guns N’ Roses (1992)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Andy Morahn</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Almost twenty years later, the video for rock’s greatest power ballad is still as visually arresting as it ever was due to its design, high drama and bravado. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The video tells the story of the perfect wedding between Axle and his then real-life girlfriend Stephanie Seymore. They’re wedding plays out, complete with jovial moments like the point at which the wedding ring is forgotten and one of the band members steps in with the offer of a ring from his leather-gloved hand.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The wedding reception is rained out and through a shift in mood of music and visuals it is suggested that soon after, the beautiful bride kills herself as she is seen in a coffin in the same church with a mirror obscuring one half of her face (a common way of presenting an open casket after suicide via gunshot wound to the head).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The video is so successful in creating moments that linger in the subconscious like clever chorus hooks, it is impossible to hear the song without recalling:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-font-width:0%">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Stephanie Seymore walking down the aisle in the mini wedding dress.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-font-width:0%">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Red wine spilling on white linen.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-font-width:0%">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU">The bouquet landing in the rain. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-font-width:0%">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU">Guitarist Slash’s solos: in a barren field in front of a church in New Mexico and mounting Axl’s piano in the guilded theatre in front of an audience of thousands while a string orchestra builds the mounting suspense in the background.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">November Rain is still one of the most expensive music videos in history, yet through all the locations and lavish design elements, there is a congruous and contained story within the excesses of the telling.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">CRIMINAL Fiona Apple (1998)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Mark Romanek</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Mark Romanek’s music video for Criminal invites the audience to illicit pederast thoughts on the seemingly adolescent Apple. Her gamine corpse is strung out in a serious of orgiastic panoramas shot to emulate a teenage girl’s flash photography.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Eerily childish imagery abounds: the clip open on a phallic stuffed animal, the colour palate is made up of saturated primary colours, and she sits, sulking like a naughty child on kitchen benches and in the cupboard while giving her rendition of the song.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The setting too ties us to notions of the 70’s Californian porn industry through its faux wood panelling and green shag carpet – very much alive in the public’s consciousness at the time due to the release of Boogie Nights. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the song, Apple tells the story of a girl who has committed the crime of heart breaking, but the video allows a platform for a very raw performance that makes us feel as though a different, more sinister crime is taking place: one by us a voyeuristic audience.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Further viewing by Mark Romanek: ‘Bedtime Stories’ and ‘Rain’ by Madonna’, ‘Closer’ by Nine Inch Nails; ‘Are you Gonna Go My Way’ by Lenny Kravitz and the film ‘One Hour Photo’ starring Robyn Williams.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">BACHELORETTE Bjork (1997)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Michel Gondry</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Both artist and director have come together over a number of projects, but Bachelorette is the best example of the power of collaboration: Bjork’s cinematic musical production and Scandinavian operatic plays out like a film score over Gondry’s surreal meditiation on the imitation of life in art, and art’s subsequent imitation by other art.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The clip open with Bjork’s narration on finding a book in the street. This narration then appears as the words in the book. She takes the book to a publisher, who then manufactures it, it’s success leading to it being turned into a stage play in which Bjork finds a book, takes it to a publisher which is then manufactured and turned into a stage play. And so on, until the ‘real life’ characters are watching a play of a play of a girl finding a book in the street. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It is in that copying of a copy and the increasing denigration of the idea that the director is exploring which is a clever abstraction on the song’s theme of love and loss.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">SUGAR WATER Cibo Matto (1996)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Michel Gondry</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Reflection, time loop and repetition are themes that feature heavily across Michel Gondry’s extensive (and in many cases genius) music video career - indeed, if he could reappropriate this genius to his feature film work, we may not have been given the misfires ‘Be Kind Rewind’, ‘Human Nature’ and ‘The Science of Sleep’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, ‘Sugar Water’ by Cibo Matto, an otherwise little known Japanese Band, allows him to explore this terrain in a way that is intricate in concept but simple in presentation<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>so it can be received as either quaint or perplexing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A split screen shows two sides of the same story played out from two girls’ perspectives.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The left hand side of the screen is playing forward while the right hand side is playing in reverse and at the middle point the scenes cleverly switch perspective so that the Girl 1 is now covered in the perspective shown backwards and vice versa.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This clip is a testament to the strength of the concept: it takes multiple viewings to get one’s head around exactly what is happening, yet from first viewing, the clip maintains a visual harmony which is balanced and poetic.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This clip also perpetuates the notion of ‘director as artist’ – unable to satiate his exploration of an idea via one video, Gondry allowed the theme to reoccur though the clips ‘Let Forever Be’ and ‘Star Guitar’ by The Chemical Brothers, ‘Come Into My World’ by Kylie Minogue and ‘The Hardest Button To Button’ by The White Stripes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">PAPARAZZI Lady Gaga (2009)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dir. Jonas Akerland</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Paparazzi signifies Gaga’s ownership of the music video medium and in doing so, she collaborates with long-time Madonna videographer, Jonas Akerland.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the video, Ackerland and Gaga parallel the song’s theme of pitching the object of her affection as the paparazzi, and her, the star vying for their attention to the metaphore of the heart breaker as a (literal) lady-killer. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">After her attempted ‘murder’, Gaga takes him back and breaks his heart (kills him) as revenge.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Where this clip succeeds where it’s follow up - the Beyonce duet, ‘Telephone’ - fails, is that all of the scenes, costumes and stories presented are all necessary to heighten the key theme. Even the dance routine is done with Gaga and dancers wearing outfits inspired by press flash bulbs. Every element of the styling supports the scene and the story – even the hair-piece worn after her fall from the balcony reflects splattered brains.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Imagery of 1930’s cinema like Fritz Lang’s Metroplois represented (brilliantly) by her (high drama) golden iron-lung bodice and the mythology of tragic Hollywood heroines like Sunset Boulevard’s Norma Desmond are paralleled and presented via a ‘tele-novella’-style introduction in Swedish. And just as in Sunset Boulevard, the infamy gained by killing her lover provides her with the fame she’s been craving, cleverly trying in both the video’s narrative and the song’s lyrics.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Selected further Viewing by Jonas Akerland – music videos: ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ by The Prodigy, ‘Telephone’ by Lady Gaga, ‘Music’, ‘American Life’ (the brilliant original, un-released version) and ‘Celebration’ by Madonna.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Prologue:</p><p class="MsoNormal">You may have noticed a certain lacking in my listing. That’s right: I did not include any Madonna in my Top 10. This is because in trying to devise a Top 10 list, she featured entirely too heavily as she has chosen to work with so many of the directors I have come to admire.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">So tune in next week when I list my ‘Top 10 Madonna Clips (and the way in which they have signposted her career)’ </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings;">J</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-5483424827317299452010-03-18T18:01:00.001-07:002010-03-18T19:16:43.341-07:00'On Melbourne' by Dan Brophy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjou9yewo2CnEsVMFtH0psakPTFLJ3I-TclbZ4hSBEC0aBlbvhG0wiCu2bAOCEQ-V-Z4xeNwfInwAOVYaReZniHC7Yu5t7xRBb0WEFPtcoA9VQfdI0QOhHRLMeoS5FjM2Mm2Yu-tbBPYP8/s1600-h/rich+romance+flinders+st+tatt+crop.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 356px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjou9yewo2CnEsVMFtH0psakPTFLJ3I-TclbZ4hSBEC0aBlbvhG0wiCu2bAOCEQ-V-Z4xeNwfInwAOVYaReZniHC7Yu5t7xRBb0WEFPtcoA9VQfdI0QOhHRLMeoS5FjM2Mm2Yu-tbBPYP8/s400/rich+romance+flinders+st+tatt+crop.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450145234961281970" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Flinders St Station in ink.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I heart Melbourne: the way it’s people hook into a unique and tailored zeitgeist that governs the way they look, talk, dress, commune, engage, celebrate and relate.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> Right or wrong, I love the subtle level of arrogance each Melbournian maintains about the elements that make them identify it as being ‘their city’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> It’s a cultural superiority complex inherited from our Italian influence, I’m sure. Indeed, the ‘Fitzroyalty’ ego is just the underdog-made-good pride of Europeans repackaged for the inner north.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">However we are all guilty of drawing a line in the sand as to what makes our enclave of the city the best, yet our innate Melbourne-ness as a whole comes from the our similarities, not our differences. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">But where did this innate Melbourne-ness come from? To a foreigner, Sydney may look the most like us superficially, yet the scratching of the surface would reveal a heart that beats to an entirely different rhythm. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The answer lies, I believe, in the cities’ immigration heritage. Sydney’s main ethnic influence is Lebanese, while Melbourne’s is Italian and Greek – it’s the fifth largest Greek city in the world. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">At the time of social integration, Anglo Melbourne embraced the Euro-influence of the immigrants, possibly due to the simple fact that they preyed to the same god. Sydney has never fully culturally embraced all that it’s Lebanese could offer. This racial divide has forged a segregation, whereas in comparison, the industries spawned by the European influx i.e. cafes, restaurants and nightlife (none of which existed pre 1960s) have given Melbournians the lifestyle elements they pride themselves on most. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">If you tapped a Melbournian on the shoulder at random and asked them if they love their city, chances are they wouldn’t just say yes, but would offer a list of reasons as to why (unlike, say, the average Londoner who could effortlessly roll off a list of the top ten things that ail -and ‘ale’- them). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Melbournians, like New Yorkers seems to pride themselves on all the things that they have been rendered out of necessity: the weather is tumultuous, therefore we have embraced fashion as a daily art form. However the key factor in making Melbourne style is that trends are acknowledged 6 months ahead of Europe and the US due to the fact that collections are shown around the time we are seasonally ready for them. Our northern hemisphere counterparts who have to wait until the weather adjusts and the High Street acknowledges a trend in order for a shift to be validated. Due to the fact it is practically impossible for the average person to wear International fashion labels, once it is imported and prices are converted from Euros and US dollars, Melbourne style is built on the foundation of that style awareness but then the individual’s story is usually told using a combination of local designers and thrift store finds. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The frenetic yet social nature of the city has meant a universal appreciation of coffee and it’s café culture from power walking mums to power lunching business types and every hobo and boho in between. To me, Melbourne’s cultural history is embodied by the caffe latte: introduced by Italians, perfected by Greeks, enjoyed by almost everybody as the totem of all social activity from business to the most intimately personal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Our love of good food and it’s shared experience, the most Mediterranean of our traits, is such a common interest that to be served an unsatisfactory meal is a personal insult and a professional shame. Entire neighbourhoods are built around cuisines, so much so that I find myself taking an out-of-towner on an ‘eating tour’ more so than any other landmark worth visiting – for what better way to show someone the essence of Melbourne than to eat well?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Yet a testament to the very Melbourne-ness of Melbournians is that Sydney-siders just don’t see what the fuss is all about. The things that they value in a city - based more on geography and displays of wealth– are not readily found here. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Yet it is this egalitarian availability of the finer things in life that make Melbourne culture so united: no matter which point of the compass you reside, which end of the socio-economic spectrum, chances are you value the ‘simple things’ done to a specific design: clothing, food, coffee, a cultural event. There are no financial boundaries or class divides that prevent one from ‘living well’ – a system of values no doubt put in place by the fact that our greatest cultural influence was once one of the poorest.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I heart Melbourne. We’d put it on a T-shirt if it could be abbreviated cleverly. Or would we - for fear that the rest of the world might find out about it too? Even so, they probably wouldn’t love it as much as we did.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-61032941367234584412010-03-12T22:15:00.000-08:002010-03-12T23:04:55.844-08:00'LMFF: The End of Fashion Ingenuity' By Dan Brophy<div style="text-align: center;">
</div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This week the city will be distracted by the mild hysteria surrounding the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It will provide nuggets of human interest for TV News, and excuse to put a saleable fashion image on the front page of newspapers, and a slew of product-sponsored events for the duration of the week.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Yet for a city that prides itself on being the epicentre of Australian Fashion, no one seems to comment on what a bonfire of mediocrity the festival itself is. A walking, breathing retail catalogue, wrapped up and wooped up as if it were to be seen alongside London, Paris, Milan and New York.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The biggest parade of the Melbourne fashion year, the showing of the winter collections is a whitewashed selection of the least outrageous of what Melbourne has to offer. This is due to the fact that a single ‘stylist’ appointed by the festival surveys each of the participating designers’ ranges and chooses which garments are shown -representing them in their most department-store-friendly form.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Rather than experiencing the full brunt of Australian design talent, all you will see is ‘style according the Herald Sun fashion editor’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Therefore, fashion journalists and the witnessing public are fed the idea that fashion is meant to be safe, that it is meant to be basic, that it is meant to appeal to the ‘every man’. Impressionable youths return to their suburban enclaves and mimic what they see on models. They are encouraged to ‘tone it down’, play it safe or suppress an urge to follow an impulse that might otherwise start a wave of something more daring.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">It’s as if we are so esteemed to have a week of expensively executed parades, we forgot to demand the same level of forward thinking and ingenuity that would any of the other artistic mediums we regard in this city. Year after tiresome year, the parade week leaves people bereft of remark, uninspired by an affair so otherwise full of pomp and circumstance - it should display more than just ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Ironically, the way many international style makers find their direction is via trend forecasting networks like WGSN, who charge their members a few thousand dollars a year to allow them into their database of current style catalogues. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">These are compiled by paying ‘style watchers’ to photograph what trendy kids are wearing on the street, at art schools and at clubs in cities just like this. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">These pockets of individuals, like ‘trend weathervanes’ unintentionally gage what the zeitgeist will gravitate towards next. Ready-to-wear designers then follow this advice, making collections based on the nucleus of the same idea, which Australian fashion festivals then try and mimic, dumb down and re-package back to us.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">At best, all one could hope to gain from attending a parade like LMFF is to look at what the audience is wearing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">If there were to be a shift in this guileless trend, it would need to come from the ground up: those who are showing their wares should demand more exposure for their ground-breaking ideas; those at the journalist level need to comment on the how artistically waning the affair really is, and those at a consumer level need to demand a platform for design that is not indicative of what Myer will be stocking next season.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the mean time, if you want to know what you’ll be wearing in three seasons time, don’t look to the catwalks, look to the streets.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">As sure as the eventual return of the baggy jean, the Melbourne Fashion Festival in it’s current incantation is the antithesis of what fashion should be.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">For those in need of instant inspiration:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/">http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A celebration of individual style. Scott Schuman travels the world photographing people in the street who’s style he deems worthy of the term ‘sartorialist’.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://cyanatrendland.com/category/designer/trends/">http://cyanatrendland.com/category/designer/trends/</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A good example of a free trend-forecasting site, giving you an overview of looks that will eventually penetrate the mainstream. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://www.style.com/">www.style.com/</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">and the style.com iPhone app. are a great way to see every single international runway collection within hours of their premier. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">My advice: create a file of images that speak to you, either copied and pasted digitally, or literally torn from magazines. Look this over and go op-shopping allowing your style to emerge though a combination of instinct and inspiration. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The best-dressed people in the world don’t buy designers as much as they inspire them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">What some of my favourite 'Melbourne Fashionables' are wearing. Images courtesy of the fashionista, complied by the author.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-45036175692121623142010-02-25T00:50:00.000-08:002010-02-25T01:29:02.851-08:00My 10 Favourite FilmsOne of the things I love about cinema is its egalitarianism. It is art for the people, one of the great levellers of our time. For in most of the civilised world, if you were to tap someone on the shoulder and ask them about cinema, it would not be a case of if they had a favourite film, but what their favourite film(s) would be.
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Whenever I meet someone new, one of the first things I look forward to discussing with them is what their favourite films are, not only because you can often tell a lot about a person from what films they most enjoy, but also because it is a topic on which most are instantly passionate.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Having presented a film review show on Channel 31 for two years, studied film at university and actively pursued a career as a film maker ever since, it is oft a part of my daily conversation. Recently a friend asked me to write him a list of my ten favourite films, must-sees that would give him not only inspiration the next time he was at the video store, but a chance to see the cinematic world through my eyes: what does one who dedicates his life to film take inspiration from?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In review, my Top 10 would actually make a great ‘sampler’ for anyone without much experience outside the blockbuster box.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So without further ado, and in NO PARTICULAR ORDER, here are is my Top 10 and a reason why I love them. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I don’t expect everyone to agree - but that’s the whole point, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>
</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Breathless (</b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;font-family:Verdana;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/"><span style="Times New Roman";font-family:";color:#002F81;"><b>À bout de souffle</b></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><b>) </b></span><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(1960) dir. Jean-Luc Godard<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The film that begun the movement known as the ‘French New Wave’. This is a film-enthusiasts dream: the first film to embrace hand-help cinematography and new editing techniques like ‘jump cutting’ (where the camera framing doesn’t change but the scene jumps forward in time). It is a beautiful depiction of being young and cool in Paris in the 60s wrapped up in a love-story crime-caper. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Godard famously said: “<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.”</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Since so many of the filmic conventions ‘Breathless’ created were done out of necessity, to me this film is a testament to the will of the young film maker. There is no other film that makes me want to make film more.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkQUKKLKO0q_GHuMrRTXMarEVuBQgbQRHmXUi4MNMYtxl6OJuLN0123NRI9ArvZYx3jeGaTHxFAm4lZHgRAhPIhx_qk5a1kuWTw9y5hyj9LOsTLoX3_Jo_xIgAIUIVgQBUBChHZuG8yw/s1600-h/a-bout-de-souffle.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkQUKKLKO0q_GHuMrRTXMarEVuBQgbQRHmXUi4MNMYtxl6OJuLN0123NRI9ArvZYx3jeGaTHxFAm4lZHgRAhPIhx_qk5a1kuWTw9y5hyj9LOsTLoX3_Jo_xIgAIUIVgQBUBChHZuG8yw/s400/a-bout-de-souffle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442105997786987986" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>
</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>All About My Mother (</b><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:-1.0pt;mso-font-kerning:.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><b>Todo sobre mi madre)</b></span><b> (1999) dir. Pedro Almodovar<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Pedro Almodovar is a filmmaker who has dedicated his career to the celebration of women, and to that end, this is his opus. The theme of the film (which takes it’s inspiration from the 1950 film ‘All About Eve’ – also in the Top 10) is that part of every woman is a mother, an actress, a saint, a sinner and part of every man is a woman. Through these paradigms he presents us a series of female characters (real and transgender) exemplifying these traits in a beautifully complex and soulfully engaging way, brought to life in the kaleidoscopic primary colour palate he (and thusly, Spanish cinema) has become famous for.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMEvfzaPjcdy0rAOhh0btivWEO8U9Y7K5vmVGpNNuJZs9vTXNqqxgcp-2NZh_lScQeCLmaa6ut9Ru33lHeOdyLlmoZKOgQM36CFFc_x94d4K8Cqdzdwf2DRJpfvqilvOQy9ZAiRP5Ne3g/s1600-h/mp-cr2-big.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMEvfzaPjcdy0rAOhh0btivWEO8U9Y7K5vmVGpNNuJZs9vTXNqqxgcp-2NZh_lScQeCLmaa6ut9Ru33lHeOdyLlmoZKOgQM36CFFc_x94d4K8Cqdzdwf2DRJpfvqilvOQy9ZAiRP5Ne3g/s400/mp-cr2-big.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442108343411331938" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px; " /></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>
</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dancer In the Dark (2000) dir. Lars von Trier<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Gut-wrenchingly tear-inducing even after it’s tenth viewing. Bjork gives the sort of performance that most actors dream about as the suffering heroin of yet another film in which Lars von Trier tortures a female protagonist. Yet so much about this feels personal to all parties: for von Trier it is an indictment on America, for Bjork it is about what one will sacrifice for the love of a child and for music. Watch it and be carried away on a heady wave of misery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGzmhUFoBWpZcC8gS_Bm4bKAR2CPbcT1bAZL7nXc1yALoXwfECMg3X7V4ArNV7OhDnwB-TRuZIUBUDaLuTDE-O3ZN2UO7SxPbLowOaJTj5-SI3R5wohcTVxzw8wN0qA4gQ31ZxU-CcC8/s1600-h/Bjrk+dancer_in_the_dark_11.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGzmhUFoBWpZcC8gS_Bm4bKAR2CPbcT1bAZL7nXc1yALoXwfECMg3X7V4ArNV7OhDnwB-TRuZIUBUDaLuTDE-O3ZN2UO7SxPbLowOaJTj5-SI3R5wohcTVxzw8wN0qA4gQ31ZxU-CcC8/s400/Bjrk+dancer_in_the_dark_11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442103003845662706" style="cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 400px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>There Will Be Blood (2007) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Another film where the protagonist’s performance is reason enough to watch. But it is not just Daniel Day Lewis’ turn as greed incarnate that warrants viewing, but director Paul Thomas Anderson’s ability to wring tension from scenes with harrowing precision, rendering terror in a genre that is not horror. An inspired and unconventional score by Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead and epic cinematography help resonate this fable of the dark side of the American dream.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">
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</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Death Becomes Her (1992) dir. </b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;color:#002F81;"><u style="text-underline:#002F81"><b>Robert Zemeckis</b></u></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The purpose of black comedy as a genre is to take the nucleus of an idea and blow it up to disproportionate extremes thus feeding the audience ideas in a palatable and entertaining way. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">At the time of it’s production, no one could have estimated that the ‘fountain-of-youth’ obsession would become as common-place as it did by the beginning of the new century, yet that’s exactly what Death Becomes Her explores, in a twisted and darkly comic way.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is also a chance for Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn to exercise their brilliant knack for physical comedy as they literally tear each other apart, unable to die due to a potion that promises them eternal youth and life everlasting. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">
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</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>All About Eve (1950) dir. </b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;color:#002F81;"><u style="text-underline:#002F81"><b>Joseph L. Mankiewicz</b></u></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Before there was Dynasty, before Melrose Place, before Gossip Girl, people had to go to the moves to watch glamorous women destroy each other. And no one did it better that Bette. Bette Davis plays an aging theatre star who takes her biggest fan on as an assistant, only to see her steal her job, her man and ultimately her Academy Award.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Witty dialogue and scathing remarks are delivered with such break-neck speed and precision, you need to watch it multiple times just to appreciate how genius the writing and performances are. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">
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</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When gay men die, they go to a place that looks like this movie. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell play showgirls on a boat full of bachelors, one looking to marry for love, the other for money. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A film worth studying on so many levels: the least of which is as a way of exploring how sexual subtext could be inserted in every possible angle of dialogue at a time when Hollywood was a puritanical as ever. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">If ever there was a film that celebrated Monroe the actress, this was it: a chance for her to parody what the world thought she was, yet deliver it in a performance cut with the precision of a diamond. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">With the witty dialogue of a stage play and musical numbers that play out like blue prints for the music videos of forty years later (the ‘Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend’ number later became Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes looks and sounds like Hollywood heaven, yet it brilliantly parodies everything the industry stands for in all of it’s sexist and materialistic glory.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">
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</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Manhattan (1979) dir. Woody Allen<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">From it’s Gershwin-scored orchestral fire-works-over-the-skyline opening to it’s breathtaking black and white cinematography, this is Woody Allen’s masterpiece poem to a city which he has spent his career trying to put a celluloid frame around. Anyone who has enjoyed Seinfeld, Sex and The City, or any other tale that has celebrated New York, owes much to the man who helped invent the genre while the rest of the world was still looking to Los Angeles as a filmic hub.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The multiple protagonists all paint a beautiful, pathos-ridden picture of modern inner-city life.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4M0okIHHWX8G4I_GDk7xq63NbRSzfZmvXNbNxb8sGAuQX3GPP9BzjBdmCcvuSedoSUnAkoer4TEz5M_AqgoFkTK8776Q4rRx_fdz3fCa_grolaEBMDJdrKuvxjsCRttg1EkQyj6PxVCw/s1600-h/manhattan.gif"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4M0okIHHWX8G4I_GDk7xq63NbRSzfZmvXNbNxb8sGAuQX3GPP9BzjBdmCcvuSedoSUnAkoer4TEz5M_AqgoFkTK8776Q4rRx_fdz3fCa_grolaEBMDJdrKuvxjsCRttg1EkQyj6PxVCw/s400/manhattan.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442101705814752338" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px; " /></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>
</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Match Point (2005) dir. Woody Allen<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A vastly different film to any other he has directed, Match Point is a slow-burning crime drama in which an Irish tennis coach works his way up through the British aristocracy, driven by ambition and sociopathic loathing. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It gives Woody Allen a chance to turn his metropolitan fetishist’s eye on London, celebrating it’s landmarks, society and wealth the the way he has in New York for thirty years. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Many of the two-handed scenes play out like intensifying tennis matches: just when you think someone has won, the ball falls over the net. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Yet the film’s greatest achievement in my mind is its skill in drawing an anti-hero so sympathetic that we will watch him do the unspeakable ultimately root for him.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs7zHSKXyblVHsorL5qPhYlheN4V87-d06hWGo1PopjbkWS3Dgz_AHUBQxvfD3KoZJU4u6ogjoc6oeFxWR4-ZyphpptApNW5eP6IbD78n9PBN8AOs18QzFfprmst3BxPcOsAj9AUamUA/s1600-h/1scarlett-gal-match-point.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs7zHSKXyblVHsorL5qPhYlheN4V87-d06hWGo1PopjbkWS3Dgz_AHUBQxvfD3KoZJU4u6ogjoc6oeFxWR4-ZyphpptApNW5eP6IbD78n9PBN8AOs18QzFfprmst3BxPcOsAj9AUamUA/s400/1scarlett-gal-match-point.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442110305718314706" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>
</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008) dir. Woody Allen<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Yet another new direction for a director who many regarded as being past his prime in the nineties. This film is a sun-filled ode to the great European directors of the twentieth century: Fellini, Visconti, De Sica. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is also a meditation on the transforming power of creativity: we either create or destroy ourselves.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is an enchanting celebration of European love and living as told through the exploits of two American tourists (Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall) who are both seduced by a brooding Spanish painter (Jarvier Bardem). <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The film explores romance’s varying extremes: those who are of the head, those who are of the heart: enter Penelope Cruz as the lusty wild-woman painter Maria-Elena, in one of my favourite screen performances as the physical manifestation of demented love and passion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTpmh4rQ13eydtlismPkDcwC2W5lN5Plns0g8nmsromSp0_YX01gZJm8HedIvYiDzZ8J3XubLbG1DkZr2myH9gwR6x_hRF2n2Cdx9YQ9CIQ07zypWbxWrTws-LpoDoxPxnwnwrkkfXVQ/s1600-h/Vicky+Cristina+Barcelona+Movie+Stills+8hG38pMdclql.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTpmh4rQ13eydtlismPkDcwC2W5lN5Plns0g8nmsromSp0_YX01gZJm8HedIvYiDzZ8J3XubLbG1DkZr2myH9gwR6x_hRF2n2Cdx9YQ9CIQ07zypWbxWrTws-LpoDoxPxnwnwrkkfXVQ/s400/Vicky+Cristina+Barcelona+Movie+Stills+8hG38pMdclql.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442101691664706034" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px; " /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-14404046875489031522010-02-08T23:25:00.000-08:002010-02-09T01:25:46.057-08:00'The Winner' - A Script For the Upcoming Short Film Release<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This month I complete post-production on an eleven minute short film titled 'The Winner'. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It tells the story of Tilly, a teenage girl who comes to an anonymous big city after winning a magazine modelling competition. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The story explores the theme of ambition: 'What do you want? How much does it cost?'</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
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</span></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">THE WINNER</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">By</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dan Brophy</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">INT. WAITING ROOM. DAY.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A model casting waiting room. A jungle of slender limbs and espadrilles. Twenty girls sit in whispering huddles of two and three. Some sit alone and stare vacantly, some read novels.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY a pale, waspish girl, 16, sits alone in the corner. She reads Paris Vogue, but the also has a small French-English dictionary which she references. Behind her two girls, TALLULAH, 17 and SIANI, 17 sit and look at each other’s portfolios.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SIANI</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Did you go to Sportsgirl this morning?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TALLULA</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">No - I think the brand is really, like, a bit too</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">mainstream for </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">my look. You’d probably really suit</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">it though.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SIANI</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">That’s a really pretty shot, you look, like, really</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">‘gypsy’ in </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">it, kind of bohemian.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TALLULAH</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah, I’ve actually got some Gypsy in me - on my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">mum’s side.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">That was India, so amazing. I was almost going to</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">get the cover </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">but they went with Gemma instead.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SIANI</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah, I remember that, you got like two pages and Gemma got, like, eight.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TALLULAH</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I know, I got three, yeah. Gemma got five. It was</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">really amazing experience though. Really, like,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">spiritual. I just loved like all people and</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">stuff. Some of the girls were really pretty, such a </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">shame 'cause they’re so poor.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SIANI</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wow, is this Dan Wood?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TALLULAH</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah, he’s pretty amazing how, like, versatile he is. We just did this test in this like abandoned house</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">with no roof as the sun was setting. Then we like,</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">slept out under the stars cause he was too </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">stoned to drive us back to the city.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SIANI</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">You slept with him?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TALLULAH</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Well, yeah, I mean, I didn’t mind, he’s kind of hot</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">- and he, like, really wanted me for India and totally pushed me to the magazine, cause they like, originally had some other girl on hold for it.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SIANI</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah, Me.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Next to Tilly, a girl, FEN, with white blonde hair comes and sits next to her.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FEN</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Have you been waiting long?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A door opens and a lanky girl slinks out.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FEN</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Just go.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I don’t think I’m next in line.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FEN</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Who cares, just go anyway, I’ll go after you.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly exits.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><div style="text-align: center; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIr_cckI5d2C24cbhvW0ZqIVWXFiTviX6Lk8r03Z3tQ1bHLLpmVi8voD62v7Intj8HDH4UWrvumQkDLWIqm8Qg9F4XQ3VG7foV675ep7yRPjhRS1-A5kPrLg9LUGvTZ_W1Y7CEqvs3-sY/s1600-h/casting4.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIr_cckI5d2C24cbhvW0ZqIVWXFiTviX6Lk8r03Z3tQ1bHLLpmVi8voD62v7Intj8HDH4UWrvumQkDLWIqm8Qg9F4XQ3VG7foV675ep7yRPjhRS1-A5kPrLg9LUGvTZ_W1Y7CEqvs3-sY/s400/casting4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436160078439226354" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px; " /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9aosg8MYOZXAaUPE5rLxipR5XBQFO4SCEgDWDRXF2wx4b16Q9B4ZYhwgHYUFIP-C6-kjhqQqLm-PCW7vHBpMlkGpmqw59huYD7ef_OFMEIvlp-DFBiRYNuEl78jLq8WWsBIU3yY2gGA/s1600-h/casting3.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9aosg8MYOZXAaUPE5rLxipR5XBQFO4SCEgDWDRXF2wx4b16Q9B4ZYhwgHYUFIP-C6-kjhqQqLm-PCW7vHBpMlkGpmqw59huYD7ef_OFMEIvlp-DFBiRYNuEl78jLq8WWsBIU3yY2gGA/s1600-h/casting3.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9aosg8MYOZXAaUPE5rLxipR5XBQFO4SCEgDWDRXF2wx4b16Q9B4ZYhwgHYUFIP-C6-kjhqQqLm-PCW7vHBpMlkGpmqw59huYD7ef_OFMEIvlp-DFBiRYNuEl78jLq8WWsBIU3yY2gGA/s400/casting3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436160070500568482" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px; " /></span></a></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">INT. CASTING SPACE. DAY.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly stands in front of the panel that sits silently, scrutinizing her. RITA, 40s, wears a sharp black bob and thick-rimmed glasses. </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">JOHN, 30s wears cashmere couture flung over his shoulder and MARNIE, 30S, wears a pretty floral dress with a geek-chic edge.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RITA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Book?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Excuse me?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RITA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Your book? Where is it?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Oh, sorry.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly hands over her portfolio.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">JOHN</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">She’s the magazine competition winner. New Face.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MARNIE</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Great eyes.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">JOHN</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Could be taller.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MARNIE</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It’s editorial.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RITA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">What’s the verdict?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MARNIE</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yep.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RITA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah, I like her.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">MARNIE</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(to Tilly) We’re shooting a lot of sheer fabrics and were going to be showing them without a bra,</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">JOHN</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Is that a problem?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">RITA</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We're asking all the girls –</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0S23F9XPP3DJ8f3mmqm8iltruSUsbFRWtQaeStS3LkHl64W8eh7zGRAi7wSZgMPT78xjQKgJnSyR_RivGCeJqa6mQOpqhn_vyQpids1FOSi10v0zoA91ZucCOCCYQ4goO-GLPtvcM8zI/s1600-h/judges1.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0S23F9XPP3DJ8f3mmqm8iltruSUsbFRWtQaeStS3LkHl64W8eh7zGRAi7wSZgMPT78xjQKgJnSyR_RivGCeJqa6mQOpqhn_vyQpids1FOSi10v0zoA91ZucCOCCYQ4goO-GLPtvcM8zI/s400/judges1.jpg" border="0" alt="" 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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">EXT. LANEWAY. DAY.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly walks down the cobblestone alley holding her book to her chest. She is small and fragile in the dominant surrounds. She listens to her iPod.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">VOICE</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">What do you want?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Qu’est ce que vous voulez?</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY V.O.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Qu’est ce que vous voulez?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">VOICE</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">How much does it cost?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Combien dargent pour la?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY V.O.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Combien dargent pour la?</span></span></i></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">INT. STUDIO. DAY.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly stands in the studio, dwarfed by a white backdrop. A photographer - Ben is 30s and handsome in a dirty way - stands on the other side of the room shooting her. His clothing is completely ‘rock star’ - though it’s hard to tell whether or not it’s authentic. </span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BEN</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Just turn to me, angle your head down and part your lips slightly.</span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">What are you listening to?</span></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FLASH.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">What?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BEN</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">On the headphones? You into rock? Actually, nah,</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">you’re probably a house chick – Am I right? I’m right, aren’t I?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">[Turn to the left, side profile, angle up slightly. Great]</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FLASH.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Um. No, actually, I’m learning to speak French.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BEN</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Fulla surprises. You wanna work there?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FLASH.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">She nods.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BEN (cont.)</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’ve worked Paris.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Really?</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">FLASH.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BEN</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah, a lot. I done London for like, three years and Paris’ like travelling an hour and a half cross</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">town. I had jobs in London that took me longer to get to than jobs in Paris.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I could see you working there, easy.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">How? What do you have to do?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He puts the camera down.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BEN</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">You’ve got to have the right photographer take the</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">right photo of you for the right editorial for an O.S. agency to see your potential.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wow, it’s so complicated. I just don’t know where to start.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BEN</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I could help.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He approaches her with his camera. He angles her face down with his hand and goes to kiss her. She turns away.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">She leaves.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-lcR0pAfaRdhiJb5Fh4_sflCkaiftI1mHxWQ50MX08HiFfCMM0M3e6Wo1ge1Gmouw2cEG0tumORh1DbqQ50erJCMk5Z2RvyZ0t8iJ2NOzkBnTpbpsPgWc3ePqejbX-9IjdN8t7BF5q0/s1600-h/lane1.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-lcR0pAfaRdhiJb5Fh4_sflCkaiftI1mHxWQ50MX08HiFfCMM0M3e6Wo1ge1Gmouw2cEG0tumORh1DbqQ50erJCMk5Z2RvyZ0t8iJ2NOzkBnTpbpsPgWc3ePqejbX-9IjdN8t7BF5q0/s400/lane1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436159001986364866" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px; " /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
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</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">EXT. STREET. DAY.</span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly walks down the street, dwarfed by her surrounds. She listens to her headphones. Suddenly a car pulls up in front of her. Out jumps Scott, 19, wearing baggy shorts and a metal chain around his neck.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SCOTT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where the fark‘ve you been?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">She turns and walks the other way.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SCOTT (cont.)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">‘Ey, come ‘ere.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly! I’m farkin talkin’ t’you.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’ve been callin’ you f’ days now? D’you know how </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">worried y’ dad is?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Get’n the car, we’re goin’ home.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">No.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SCOTT</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tilly, don’t be farkin’ stewpid. Get’n the car.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">You’re not my boyfriend any more Scott, don’t tell</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">me what to do. I’m staying here. I work here now.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SCOTT</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Doing what?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Modelling.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SCOTT</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">That’s not a farkin’ job.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">And what- like working at the local shop is? </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">You’ve </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">got no idea. No one in that whole fucking </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">town </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">does. None of you are goin’ anywhere – but </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">you’re </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">all too slow to realise. I’m not going home </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">– ever. </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’m going to Paris. I don’t care what it </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">takes.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SCOTT</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Listen to y’ self. You won some stupid </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">magazine competition. There are people who win Big</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brother who </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">don’t even go anywhere. And y’ think you’re gonna </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">be famous? Take a look at ya self, you’re not even </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">that pretty. I don’t even know why I went out with you.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Your ugly and you’re a fucken idiot.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">He goes.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">INT. HOTEL LOBBY. EVENING.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY enters. There is a girl, SILO, 16 sitting in a giant leather armchair.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Have you been waiting long?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There’s someone up there now.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where is everyone else?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This is a request casting – which is good, you know, </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">less competition.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">What’s it for – do you know?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Editorial in Paris. Collette. Have you worked for </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Dumas before?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Who is he?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It’s Pierre Dumas.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Ok.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Do you know Gemma? She shot with him a year ago and</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">she’s pretty much done, like, every major campaign </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">since.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Oh my God.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The only thing is, he’s like notorious for - I mean, </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure she fucked him.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Really?</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Yeah.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">THE OTHER GIRL storms through the lobby and exits. SILO smiles at TILLY and heads towards the elevator.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">TILLY sits in the oversized chair. She is lost in a trance. A hum starts to resonate around her, distant at first, then with growing intensity.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As if no time has passed at all, SILO is standing in front of her. The hum still reverberates.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">You’re next. Good luck.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SILO is gone. Tilly gets up. </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">INT. ELEVATOR. NIGHT.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">She stands alone. The elevator ascends. It arrives. She walks down the hall, knocks and waits at the door. It opens. She walks into darkness.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">INT. HOTEL HALLWAY. NIGHT.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The door opens, Tilly emerges. She is dishevelled, her hair and make-up defiled – but she holds it together. She walks from the hotel room to the elevator, calls it, waits and when it arrives, she enters. </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">She stands in the elevator, as she descends. She looks in the mirror and composes herself. She gives herself a little smile. The elevator hits the ground floor. The bell dings.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">BLACK.</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
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</div>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-55471811327779411982010-01-15T00:25:00.001-08:002010-01-15T00:30:27.006-08:00Behind the Themes 'All That you Wish We Were'<span><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qyxkDWdj_kM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qyxkDWdj_kM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">'All That You Wish We Were' by Boy Plus Girl</span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">video director: Dan Brophy</span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">2009</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
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In the interest of offering a perspective on the ‘making of’ a music video, I thought I would talk you through the ‘themes behind the scenes’ of the video I most recently directed for Boy Plus Girl’s ‘All That You Wish We Were’.
The song is dark, brooding, sexy and ends with a banging climax. This juxtaposition of the sex and violence, plus the lo-fi performance style of the band was my first springboard into coming up with a concept.
As this is one of the band’s first videos, I thought it was a good idea to set the tone by making visual associations between them and certain moments in pop art.
The film opens on a post-modern asymmetrical statue. This dominant form subconsciously evokes male genitalis. Fluorescent lights (a reference to the 1960s light-sculptor Dan Flavin) come alive, illuminating the concrete cell.
A dominatrix cracks a whip: the ‘ceremony’ can now commence. An act of sadomasochism about to be played out in front of us. The cell illuminates with horizontal (prison) bars of light, suggesting ‘entrapment’ while also introducing us to the band.
As the boys begin to play, the vision of them is fed to us through the screen of a video camera. This ‘frame within a frame’ denotes voyeurism (an idea commonly explored in the fashion editorial work of photographers Steven Klein and Terry Richardson.)
The three dominatrixes (whose makeup references the girls of Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irrestistible” video and whose clothes evoke 70s/80s icon Grace Jones)
watch the performance.
Somewhat unenthused, they have seen this ritual played out before, but this time something remarkable happens: they cannot resist the allure of the track, swaying their shoulders and eventually touching themselves feverishly.
As the three oppressors’ enthusiasm mounts, we notice they are not only filming the boys, they have also positioned cameras around themselves so that they can watch their own image beamed back to them in a display of masturbatory hedonism.
The themes of ‘voyeurism / exhibitionism’ and ‘dominance / submission’ continue: as the boys grow in their oppression the girls get more and more excited, simultaneously aroused by the imagery of both themselves and their captives.
By the second verse, the fetishist element of the game is revealed: binoculars, gas masks, biting into raw broccoli, table-top mirrors on which a dominatrix is transfixed by narcissism - as if she’s getting high on her own reflection. The accumulated illusion is a tongue-in-rouged-cheek reference to the trends of (Facebook) voyeurism, vanity, drug use and low-carb mania rampant in society today. This, like all good black-comedy (and sci-fi) takes a nucleus of truth and ramps up the volume to the point of ridiculousness and humour.
As the climax builds with the growing intensity of clapping, the dancers are introduced. Their skeletal face make-up (inspired by the short film work of 70s fashion photographer Guy Bourdin) are hyper-stylised versions of the grim reaper. The song’s musical climax is mirrored by a simulated climax of the girls on the black plastic plinth. At the point in which the energy cannot increase anymore the phallic monolith statue literally starts to ooze a translucent viscous fluid, which creeps across the floor, signalling a ‘little death’ and the end not only of the song, but for the band.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></span><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span></span></div>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-6194152784379364022009-12-15T00:13:00.000-08:002009-12-16T18:45:32.852-08:00'In Defence of Lady Gaga' by Dan Brophy<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
</span></i></b></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1IgA3ac1xGZvhIp4ZUo69hhbvJxLqoKkag5vSJTrSg3786F3wh4EwSBh4KuswCziCsG5UJJQRDY12Y09TmnUK3JhNWKaN9cHD2EwX8dtYGcVlSJzpCxqqvc0J5-v_i_5K1pXjEGzaBAo/s1600-h/8b45fc7f-1a7f-41f8-9165-3a6db97fcd01.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1IgA3ac1xGZvhIp4ZUo69hhbvJxLqoKkag5vSJTrSg3786F3wh4EwSBh4KuswCziCsG5UJJQRDY12Y09TmnUK3JhNWKaN9cHD2EwX8dtYGcVlSJzpCxqqvc0J5-v_i_5K1pXjEGzaBAo/s400/8b45fc7f-1a7f-41f8-9165-3a6db97fcd01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415457443277842386" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px; " /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4bP8izhIQ20FnsRKJifGHzdZLujXMTc5gJOhp_RJ2P0CUKMsiHZ_B_MJt41rb4mvIS2ckYMQitnem1TLaFSM3b343fuNmup0eF5u2oMe75n8rcEEXjQ9MX6dBzn-UPVKOYpluJDuzkA/s1600-h/58c68230-712c-401d-8d62-1bbae2086626.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4bP8izhIQ20FnsRKJifGHzdZLujXMTc5gJOhp_RJ2P0CUKMsiHZ_B_MJt41rb4mvIS2ckYMQitnem1TLaFSM3b343fuNmup0eF5u2oMe75n8rcEEXjQ9MX6dBzn-UPVKOYpluJDuzkA/s400/58c68230-712c-401d-8d62-1bbae2086626.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415460587598956930" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">This is the day of Gen-Y: they who have only known unfettered access to ideas via internet and growing steams of communication.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Theirs is a multi-referential pop ideal, as culture ‘eats itself’ like an </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Ouroboros</span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">, constantly regurgitating and re-consuming the bitmapped images they have seen before. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">It’s not that there are no new ideas, it’s just that the reconfiguration of old ideas into something new (like a Julian Schnabel “found objects” collage) IS the defining tone of the now. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The litmus test of the times: pop music – and all the promotional imagery that comes with it - has come to reflect the values of pop art more than ever before. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Like a mother bird, regurgitating into the mouths of her squealing young, Lady Gaga is re-feeding us the sounds and images that we may or may not know we’ve grown up with.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Lady Gaga stands for all that is weird and wonderful about the youth of today: she is unconventional, underground affiliated, unashamedly bi-sexual and an grotesque beauty that is far more beguiling than something we might have otherwise asked for.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">When the Lady herself drew comparisons to Andy Warhol, many of her detractors scoffed, but lest we forget that the man himself was abhorred by the establishment up until his death: he with his own celebrity magazine and the host of his own TV show live from Studio 54. How could </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">this</span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> be a </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">real</span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> artist?</span></span></span></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvdBOo63GVZ0HqDJmSQBdhYU-c_Bt1M_E26BqekJym-oOC92YZ-BZNSmHGEXeo_5j-ExWNaSWsFj3IjPFNVq0jSok_VSnxAauEbole6WOXUs2sGLcRLzkAoDw88iajSsuOqjrTeX9bXA/s1600-h/lady-gaga-kermit-the-frog1.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfvdBOo63GVZ0HqDJmSQBdhYU-c_Bt1M_E26BqekJym-oOC92YZ-BZNSmHGEXeo_5j-ExWNaSWsFj3IjPFNVq0jSok_VSnxAauEbole6WOXUs2sGLcRLzkAoDw88iajSsuOqjrTeX9bXA/s400/lady-gaga-kermit-the-frog1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415460573454717442" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJv8T7lZecnIfN0lLHB2h3BNo0k1CK66gkNU_w5tz-xGQnaU6Oa4uAYCSWjOTBFYDhYozA0uZjVOpWFc2egL2WG6448-rnDbcdWL_eP47_TGZ2WylE5VYz8tJ_6D6cVwUsu-eP748vtM/s1600-h/lady-gaga.jpg"></a></span></i></b></span></span><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_sTPpif-KD25vSySLYfdga4HB-njcAeR5bagxqi3GDAhwgob7SshIzDAG8xiU-1q3HSR8aJWLMvFlDTPi553UnVAkMyWALPf9d4V-T5Qrc5JS6xA7aBQ7-V1nCigd2Q6ti6lUsQsimvg/s1600-h/36d7ba2c-f621-495c-a983-117887907e4d.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_sTPpif-KD25vSySLYfdga4HB-njcAeR5bagxqi3GDAhwgob7SshIzDAG8xiU-1q3HSR8aJWLMvFlDTPi553UnVAkMyWALPf9d4V-T5Qrc5JS6xA7aBQ7-V1nCigd2Q6ti6lUsQsimvg/s400/36d7ba2c-f621-495c-a983-117887907e4d.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415460090996700786" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px; " /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJv8T7lZecnIfN0lLHB2h3BNo0k1CK66gkNU_w5tz-xGQnaU6Oa4uAYCSWjOTBFYDhYozA0uZjVOpWFc2egL2WG6448-rnDbcdWL_eP47_TGZ2WylE5VYz8tJ_6D6cVwUsu-eP748vtM/s1600-h/lady-gaga.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">But there is something so very real about the artistry of Lady Gaga. There is a wit and an awareness to her work that makes her seem so much smarter than her predecessors. She seems to transcend the modern day notion of celebrity: never to be seen with a yoga mat under one arm, a Starbucks cup in hand or pumping gas, the girl under the veil, Stephanie Germanotta simply does not exist outside the gilded frame of Lady Gaga.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">A bowerbird of contemporary pastiche, Lady Gaga has woven a scrim of pop moments from the last half-century on which to project her vision of art today. She makes associations to inspirations such as David Bowie and Queen, but her references are so vast, the combination, measure and timing of her choices leave us feeling we are watching something utterly now, if not entirely new.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Like Hitler pilfering the swastika from the Hindus and the red banners of ancient Rome, Gaga takes her wig cues from the German transsexual character Hedwig (from Hedwig and the Angey Inch), her maniacal stage presence and a penchant for wearing underwear in public from Grace Jones, and her preference to leave her circular sunglasses on during interviews from John Lennon (or is that Yoko?) The accumulated result is something that is familiar yet intangible.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Her musical sound is a conglomeration of the past also: her song formations seem to reference europop of the 70s and 80s and are more closely resembling Boney M than Britney Spears (even the intro to Pokerface “mum mum mum mah” is the hook out of Boney M’s ‘</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Ma Baker’</span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">) and her predilection to white-chick-rap (“bluffin with my muffin”) takes us from Bondie to Peaches and back again.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
</span></i></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DHg1chGJ7UA7LfuCfQPZlyJDA7aXd0MH4Q4GQHFacxRoMv19j6VaXu_VJZ9HOhDyDkdWkJXIVxiM0YUY8vNs6l_02WNqTKhJKOC7-IyEhqNggX-apeyygGXjLB5VQcah6N67fsYXRt8/s1600-h/lady_gaga.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9DHg1chGJ7UA7LfuCfQPZlyJDA7aXd0MH4Q4GQHFacxRoMv19j6VaXu_VJZ9HOhDyDkdWkJXIVxiM0YUY8vNs6l_02WNqTKhJKOC7-IyEhqNggX-apeyygGXjLB5VQcah6N67fsYXRt8/s400/lady_gaga.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415460075734334882" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">In Gaga, we see the culmination of an artist whose skill goes beyond the ability to sing and write successful pop songs. We see the evolution of a performance artist, bringing the underground into the public’s sphere of awareness. For it was in the burlesque scene of Manhattan’s Lower East Side where Gaga crafted her onstage persona. There, she was inspired and tutored by the artist Lady Starlight. Together the duo formed ‘Gaga and the Starlight Revue’ which eventually played at Lollapalooza. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">There is a completeness to her work, an overall story being told, which seems to elude so many artists of today. Whereas the usual process of creating a pop album involves purchasing songs from many different writers and brining in as many producers as the record company can afford to invest in, Gaga herself is the source and output of the work. As well as performer, she is the primary writer of both words and melodies and the producer of every track– skills she honed in the years at Interscope Records she spent writing songs for other artists like The Pussycat Dolls.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">So quick was she to examine her life under the intensifying spotlight since her star has risen, the resulting meditation was the considerably darker eight new tracks which make up her latest EP, The Fame Monster, ready for release before she had finished promoting her first album, The Fame.</span></span></span></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJv8T7lZecnIfN0lLHB2h3BNo0k1CK66gkNU_w5tz-xGQnaU6Oa4uAYCSWjOTBFYDhYozA0uZjVOpWFc2egL2WG6448-rnDbcdWL_eP47_TGZ2WylE5VYz8tJ_6D6cVwUsu-eP748vtM/s1600-h/lady-gaga.jpg" style="text-decoration: none; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJv8T7lZecnIfN0lLHB2h3BNo0k1CK66gkNU_w5tz-xGQnaU6Oa4uAYCSWjOTBFYDhYozA0uZjVOpWFc2egL2WG6448-rnDbcdWL_eP47_TGZ2WylE5VYz8tJ_6D6cVwUsu-eP748vtM/s400/lady-gaga.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415460580595785250" style="text-align: left; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px; " /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">In Gaga, there is the defiance of a mould. This is a girl who has created something that is as culturally valid as it is marketable and engaging – a genius not so readily available, just look at the debris of wannabes past; the scrap heap of one-hit-wonders and pop reality TV ‘winners’. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Tom Ford has said that every decade defines its style in its latter half: when you think of the archetypal imagery of the 60s, 70s and 80s, it is usually made up of ideas that have came to fruition in the second half. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Only in retrospect can we gauge what we have inherited from a period. If the former head of Gucci and YSL is correct, now is the time in which this decade’s legacy will be formed. In Lady Gaga we see an artist who is defining today in a way that wont be fully understood until tomorrow.</span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
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Before she was Gaga... Stephanie Germanotta showcases her voice at an NYU event.
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Barbara Walters interviews, Gaga removes her sunglasses.
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Duet with Beyonce (included not only because it's a mesmerising video, but because Gaga is almost 'plain clothed')
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Her best video yet, Paparazzi. </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Directed by Jonas Akerlund (who also did Madonna's amazing and controversial 'American Life' clip that was never released due to her fear of the backlash from Bush supporters. It does however exist on this site: http://www.raf.se/index.asp?director=02jonas_akerlund&category=03Music_Videos)
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Phantom of the VMAs.
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The look on the presenter's face after she tells him the gays are taking over the universe is PRICELESS.</span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Love Game. The 'ban' on this video by Channel 10 Australia probably did more good than harm in the early days of publicising the album. As the second single after the more standard 'Just Dance' it's a good example of the theatrics which carried on into the Gaga repertoire.</span></span></span>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-33748332119638432902009-12-07T23:21:00.000-08:002009-12-08T01:13:26.731-08:00HYPE! HYPE! HYPE! 'Paranormal Activity' and 'Where the Wild Things Are' review by Dan Brophy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggsfNkRJrjFZ8KCcEZmPz4UG6mSWRi_nslWvUv0RhOCsyXAblCNYSO3uJuTVFvy_ZPC8TUmFLGNTP2Kkap9lQRLXn76avtRQWjYCysMyVrMdaeiqvndP5dNHxJlXGz_7Qo2XjY6HmFrFc/s1600-h/wild_thing_activity.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggsfNkRJrjFZ8KCcEZmPz4UG6mSWRi_nslWvUv0RhOCsyXAblCNYSO3uJuTVFvy_ZPC8TUmFLGNTP2Kkap9lQRLXn76avtRQWjYCysMyVrMdaeiqvndP5dNHxJlXGz_7Qo2XjY6HmFrFc/s400/wild_thing_activity.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412788699589323554" /></a><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">image doctored by Dan Brophy</span></span></div><!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sam Raimi (director of the Spiderman series and most recently Drag Me To Hell) says that he loves making films for a horror audience because they turn up wanting to be moved. They are willing to, as Stanislavski says ‘suspend their mantle of disbelief’. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“To be moved” is the primary aim of the cinemagoer, regardless of the direction. We watch a motion picture to have a motion within ourselves. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Of the two biggest releases of the past week, one manages to move so entirely, and another fails completely in its task.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paranormal Activity manages to seemingly transcend the boundaries of what it is possible for us to believe when we watch a film. Knowing full well you are watching something that is scripted and performed by actors, with a continuity person standing next to the director, knowing the catering truck is parked outside, does not quell the overwhelming sensation that you are watching something truly evil and entirely possible unfold before you.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The film is so successful in achieving its goals, and yet it is simply a ‘monster in the house’ supernatural horror that we’ve seen in many incantations before. Yet to convince a cynical modern-day audience that they are experiencing something real goes beyond clever marketing to the essence of any good film: story and performance. Both of these elements are really solid. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The way in which suspense builds to the point that the viewer is begging for the scare, just to release them from the vice-like grip the director holds over his audience is almost Hitchcock-ian.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is the sort of low budget, seemingly homemade film that can only come along once every few years - just long enough for us to forget the marketing genius that ignited water-cooler discussions the world over almost a decade ago with The Blair Witch Project.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paranormal Activity</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> was made for US $15,000 and in it’s opening weekend made over $9.1 million in the US making it the most profitable film in history. </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where the Wild Things Are, </span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">made for close to US$100 million lies at the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of budget and effect.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Spike Jonze has always had an air of ‘skater punk’ about him. Even though his first two films (</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Being John Malkovich, Adaptation</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">) were deemed praiseworthy by the cantankerous stalwarts of The Academy, he always remained a member of the American-early-naughties-underground through his numerous music and skate videos (most famously ‘Praise You’ by Fatboy Slim and ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ by Bjork) and his producing Jackass: The Movie.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WTWTA</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, there is something about the plight of the misunderstood protagonist, defying the oppressions of ordinance that ring true with what I imagine the filmmaker himself had to endure when fighting for his right to make the film he wanted: a slow and painful birth, where evil Warner Brothers tried to get him to re-staff and re-shoot in light of the delivery of a film that was deemed “too weird” and “too scary” for a youth-targeted general release. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But his damn-the-man attempts fall short, in that – unlike his earlier feature film works that manage to keep one foot in the surreal but still tell a moving story – with this he has created a two-hour music video. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The dour colour palette, the mumbled dialogue as fantasy characters talk out their feelings, the long art-house silences, the indi-as-it-gets melancholic soundtrack by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. These are all worth fighting for in the face of a studio system that usually demands a colourful result-driven product. But because these elements are not hinged on a story in which </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a</span></span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">character needs to achieve something</span></span></b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, it’s very hard to become emotionally involved. The set up is there, the characters are well established, but from the time he arrives in the land of the wild things the lead character never actually WANTS anything, therefore there is no story.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So by the time Max is saying goodbye the James Gandolfini-voiced best friend creature, Carol, his computer-generated face portraying as much ET-inspired puppy-dog longing as animaters can muster, one can’t help but ponder what’s for dinner.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The unfortunate thing about </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where The Wild Things Are</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is it wont be the commercial or critical success that we had hoped it might be, which might further prevent studios from investing money in films by dudes who where skate shoes with suits to premiers. It will no doubt be the film which wary investors list when bargaining against taking a punt on another maverick in the near future.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Oren Pelli, the unknown director of Paranormal Activity has instantly green-lit his next picture, and rightly so. In terms of ‘time exchanged for emotional experiential value for money’, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paranormal Activity</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> succeeds in every way that </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wild Things</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> doesn’t.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-50014980143939603042009-11-27T18:56:00.000-08:002009-12-08T18:53:29.119-08:00'The Gay Shame In Us All' by Dan Brophy<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" text-decoration: underline;font-size:16px;">
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new', serif;font-size:16px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim5JlxM39PlkEVjOw2k5vW-ND2kxN_rkfDoe3YxgqUYZH3wKlfxEINX7SWzuUM4WHe3ibWDf3Jhxed2jqeTxiiylYvg_RVRQi7PWPI4pPv8yzRxTcOjsHb5a89T9BShZAVzkOp1Ox3PPM/s400/statue+of+david+low+angle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408986278287746770" style="text-align: left; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new', serif;font-size:small;">Today a rally for same sex marriage will take place in Melbourne City on the steps of the State Library.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Protest, though important as a way of raising awareness, to me wont do enough, as even the most open-minded and accepting of us are still suffering the affects of thousands of years of homophobia engrained in the collective consciousness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">‘Gay Pride’, the banner ideal, is a purely hypothetical notion. So far we have gotten to the stage where we identify homosexuality as ‘acceptable’, that there’s ‘nothing wrong with it’. This unfortunately caps our understanding of it’s importance at the mere point that it should be ‘allowed’. What many don’t understand, even the gays themselves, is that their place in society is crucial.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Even amongst the gay-friendly enclaves of inner-city gen-Y, we are still not convinced it’s more than OK to be gay.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> A few years ago, university lecturer friend of mine told me that there is an fundamental scientific difference between the brain of a gay male and the brain of a straight male. It lies in the corpus callosum – the space between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The corpus callosum of a gay male brain is wider, meaning that when motor neurons are firing from one side to the other, there is “more room for emotion to get in the way of the decision making”. A straight male’s hemispheres are closer together, meaning their decision making is more “mechanical”.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The brain of a gay male is therefore more closely resembling the brain of the heterosexual female. And for lesbians, their decision making is more “mechanical” rather than “emotive” due to a similarity with the heterosexual male.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I have often reassured recently outed gay guys by sharing this anecdote, so that they should think of them self as super-human rather than handicapped, as they present the greatest strengths of a man in physicality, and the greatest strengths of a woman in mentality.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
</span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Unfortunately we are living at the tail end of an era in which civilization has denied the feminine principle. Christianity turned the Pagan celebration of a “Mother Earth” into a “Heavenly Father” and continued to disavow women through witch burnings and the relegation of women to the duties of the home.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Even now, the most homophobic cultures are the ones in which women are seen as secondary to men, the most obvious being Middle Eastern and African.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There is shame associated with boys who are camp or ‘act gay’, when in actual fact they are just acting feminine – a trait which is seen as weak or flawed because somewhere along the way we were taught that being a woman was weak and flawed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> A common ‘bible belt favourite’ argument against the acceptance of gay is that homosexual sex is “unnatural” because it doesn’t eventuate in reproduction.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A theory I’ve encountered suggests that gays are meant to be responsible for giving birth to a different type of sociological function, that of new ideas and ways of thinking.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Without the fundamental drive to procreate getting in the way, the homosexual is liberated to pursue a life dedicated to the creation of thoughts and ideals which beautify and change the world.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">There is a reason why the arts are filled with homosexuals - it’s just them enacting the destiny as prescribed to them by creation itself: to be creative, to create life, but in ways in which we haven’t yet known it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Leonardo DaVinci and Michelangelo are prime examples: both clearly responsible for dramatic leaps in human consciousness, both documented as having relationships and fascinations with men – as seen in the adoration of the male form in their work: sprawling homo-erotic murals that play out like renaissance era Calvin Klein campaigns. Ironically enough, all commissioned by the Church.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> There’s a reason why the gay brain is formed as it is: more available to the emotive decision making of art and creation. There’s a reason why homosexuals exist in society, as an antidote, a means to balance the hetero-centric ideal which has reigned for the past twenty centuries, this masculine principal which has left the world in the state it’s currently in. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Today’s rally may eventuate in the acceptance gay civil unions in this country, but until gays learn to harness their strengths and recognise that they have an important role to play in the society’s evolution, rather than begrudge themselves the celebration of their strengths, ‘gay pride’ will be something that exists only in a colourful flag or on a parade route.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We would be better united if we were better as individuals.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
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</span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One trend that will define this moment in men’s fashion is the celebration of ‘the boy’.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Five years ago Germaine Greer read the zeitgeist of growing preoccupation and wrote a book about this centuries-old fascination. We now live in a world where the desirable masculine image is not one of physical strength or robust sexuality, but fine-boned innocence and lily-white timidity. From the lost-boys of Prada to Jill Sander’s vacant, Scandinavian youth, to Clavin Klein’s ethereal adolescence, and on it goes: Kenzo, Dior, Lanvin: all perpetuating a sexuality owned but not understood by it’s mascot.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
But why this current move towards a men’s ideal that is so child-like? Surely those who can afford these trends are professionals, most of which could be the fathers of – or maintaining a ‘father complex’ relationship with – the boys on the pages of the magazines. Why would a man desire to emulate the imagery of the boy?
Has the gradual feminisation of men’s fashion – both clothes and cosmetics – and the rampant metrosexuality boom of the first half of this decade finally laid the way for men to experience what grown women have long-suffered in fashion advertising: the celebration of unattainable youth?
In love, as it is sometimes said, ‘you always like what you lack’. The same can be said for the lusty world of fashion. For in this day and age where one can have everything, it’s usually at the expense of one’s youth – and innocence. Maybe that’s what’s being sold now, as sex, power, wealth and ‘luxury’ have already been packaged, sold, copied and reproduced on the High Street.
Is it an exercise in the daring or new, this provocative sexualization of ‘the virgin’, or are we just being fed the darker desires of homocentric fashion world? And are gay consumers responding in the same way as heterosexuals? Is there then the added desire to have as to be?
So much of this trend is coming out of London or Paris, where the thin and pallid look of the inner-city creative reigns supreme amongst stylists, designers and photographers. Maybe this is their chance to make fashion in their own image, not the ideals they have been brought up with, like those of (photographers) Weber and Avendon. If one was to make clothes for pale and skinny men, it’s much more aesthetically gratifying to show them on a pale and skinny sixteen year old.
This trend does have its detractors. There has been an attempt made by some labels to stand apart from the flock: ‘the beard’ has made a seemingly subversive appearance in the advertising of Westwood, Rykiel Homme or Gianfranco Ferre. Dontalla Versace is presenting something very different in the dishevelled favourite of middle-aged women, Patrick Dempsy - though to what affect, is entirely unsure. And old-school image makers like Bruce Weber and Mario Testino cap the youth of their muse at an age old enough to at least maintain the illusion of sexual dominance.
Is the new youth-quake ideal sexually regressive? Or, in light of the view of powerful masculinity that has pervaded our storytelling since the birth of the hero, is it a new beauty that challenges our previous notions of what a man should be?
At the very least, for those who don’t enjoy it, like most things in fashion, it will be gone before too long.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
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</div>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-2520291426915939192009-11-19T19:35:00.000-08:002009-11-19T20:05:36.902-08:00For those who missed it: Weekend At Britney's - The Circus Tour, Melbourne 2009 Review<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wZ3_qD_4cSo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wZ3_qD_4cSo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">THE DANCING BEAR IN THE GOLDEN CAGE (YES, THAT IS ACTUALLY AN ATTEMPT AT AIR GUITAR)</span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Before watching the Circus Tour Show, a friend had joked that Britney was like a Cossack Bear chained to the stage by her leg, made to perform for us. Lucky for those who get to watch a Russian bear perform, at least there isn’t the heavy malaise of meds and the dead eyes of a broken spirit to hamper the enjoyment of the circus.
During the forty minutes Britney was actually onstage, she got into a gold cage to sing ‘Piece of Me’ and it was at that point that I realised those pulling the strings on one of pop’s most personality-free puppets were entirely aware of the bird-in-a-cage metaphor that summarizes a career in which the star has very little to do with the end product. It was like the Golden Age of Hollywood all over again: Judy Garland, plied with prescribed uppers so shoe could get through the filming of Meet Me in St Louis.
Apparently Jamie King, Madonna’s tour director was brought in at the last minute to basically restructure a show where the lead singer couldn’t lead or sing. So much of the entertainment came from video screens, circus performers and solo moments for her dancers, while she was downstairs, offstage wondering where she was and how she got there.
I had terrible seats, though I’m glad I did, because it was heart-breaking enough to witness the exhaustion of a lazy, uninspired performer who was so far removed from what she was doing, let alone to have to see it up close. The only people who were being fooled where the fans young enough to have never seen a person sing live.
They’re shrill, crazed screams when Britney would spend a calculated twenty seconds down their end of the four-pronged arena before she slumped to the adjacent round to strike the same limp, in-articulate pose was a reminder of the out-of-control pop machine that has manufactured not just this style of music and entertainment, but the merit on which we judge a performing artist. What Madonna begun in the 80s with her original brand of spectacle touring, Britney’s minders have replicated. But this photocopied version (in Madonna’s Stick and Sweet Tour wig, no less) was barely alive, let alone in the moment. It was like ‘Weekend At Britney’s’.
And yet the fans loved it, because it was Britney, here, “live”, in front of us!
I didn’t actually go for the purpose of seeing Britney, although ever since she tried to reclaim her identity (or avoid hair-analysis drug testing) by shaving her head, I have been interested in the ‘spectacle that is’. I went because I have spent so much time exercising and driving to her pop songs, from ‘Baby One More Time’ (which was originally written for the Back Street Boys - bizarrely obvious once you are aware of it) to her hip hop inspired work with The Neptunes in the midpoint of her career and producer Danja on her last two albums.
The genius with which these songs were remixed and produced to be heard in an stadium reminded me just how much I love the tracks, and quite frankly it could have been anyone up there miming to them – we were, in any case just watching over-produced drag.
I don’t know whether this is the level at which she always performed, but this particular brand of ‘shopping centre appearance’ pop is a lot more forgivable coming from a teenager, especially given the ticket process she is now commanding. The huge arena in which she performed, designed to fill the biggest stadium in every major city of the world and help cover the cost of her prescriptions, unfortunately only highlighted how limited her ability to move could be.
Using the motif of ‘the circus’ was entirely too telling - but unlike when it is done well, it was too obvious that Britney Spears is just smoke and mirrors.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;">
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</div></div>Disco Ponyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274318722355268655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398047863777891134.post-44604091469579148892009-11-19T17:57:00.000-08:002009-11-19T20:42:50.430-08:00The High Horse Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Blog.<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', serif; ">As a big-mouthed media whore, I don't know what has taken me so long.</span></div><p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Never one to forgo a pop-culture band wagon or the chance to voice my opinion, I was surprisingly reluctant to pull up my soap-box. The ‘blog boom’ seemed to occur at a time when I was attempting to reign in my ego, and something about mouthing off weekly and expecting others to wallow in it didn’t mesh with the work I was doing on myself at the time.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To some, the blog boom is a reflection of a narcissistic cultural climate, the one Andy Warhol predicted and technology assisted.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I say it’s symbolic of the inevitable next stage in our social evolution. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We are the first Anglo-generation who are not only unafraid of our emotions but willing to parade our emotive opinions for all to witness. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It is no coincidence that this era spawned the ‘emoticon’ ;)</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Summarizing your weekly life in paragraph is more than just ego-perpetuation, rather it is the sharing of internal truths, thinly veiled as criticism or social comment. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In a world where self-expression is often ironed out by socialization, the dawn of the cyber-self has validated the opinion of the everyman. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Perez, The Sartorialist, The Fug Girls all saw what their heroes where doing and said ‘I can do that too’. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In Australia, this is especially important as each generation becomes less and less aware of the once pertinent national inferiority complex. Some of the most talented artists and creatives work here in isolation and are now starting to see that their ideas, their work is as valid anything to come from ‘London-Paris-New York’.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We all want to know ourselves and to be known, and though some may argue technology has robbed us of the communication we once shared over the back fence, another would suggest the fence is now built with HTML code and the neighbourhood is large as satellite transmission will permit.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I stopped worrying whether my opinion was necessary and realised that there mere fact that I had one was enough. Here, with open arms, is my offering to the 'world according to blog'. I hope to make it committed, cultivated and candid</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoteLevel1" style="text-align: left;margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;">
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