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padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
I heard a recent James Cameron interview in which 1) he, no surprise, says that the $ people wanted him to take the "hippie treehugging bullshit" out of Avatar and he had to fight hard to keep it in, and more interesting 2) after Avatar he'd decided to retire from filmmaking to focus on environmental and indigenous rights activism but eventually he decided that he could have more impact using his platform to make more Avatar movies, and that's the only reason he returned to filmmaking at all. The bigger platform part is undeniably true, but the message of these films is so generic and watered-down - not helped by the heavy-handedness and general dumbness of the scripts - that I have to doubt it achieves much. Like bro, you came back for this?
and he already used capitalist $ and cutting-edge technology to make two vastly better, smarter films about the dangers of short-sighted corporate profit motive and technology - i.e. what drives the core conflict of both Terminator and Aliens - decades ago
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
that's incorrect tho. linebaugh and I are in Chicago, hundreds of miles from the nearest Canadian border. gus is, I believe, in Wisconsin somewhere, a bit closer but still quite far.
I suppose it depends upon who you are.
As in, these films might not impact you or I in the way he intends but they might impact someone else? Or at least that is his thought process.
But yes, in a sense, he exemplifies the paradox he is exploring in the films, where he could just melt away and do some positive things in a quiet way but decides to keep doing what he's been doing for ages but just ramp it up in terms of budget...
We watched the abyss the other night and it's mad how close it is to both avatar and terminator, with the strange alien like substance that visually looks like the T1000 from T2 and in spirit is like the life-spirit thing in Avatar.
So he has truly been making a variation on a central theme most of his life. So in that respect an auteur on the level of, say, Michael Mann.
He's kinda oscillating between the two poles and explores them in turn, aliens as positive/negative, humans the same. Just tweaking the variations.
Im not sure I would enjoy the film as much if watching at home, definitely the imax experience pulls you in more, but as it went in, that number 1 issue kept bothering me more, or became more clear.
My apologies. But for me, in England, Chicago feels close to the "top" of America. Although incorrect in real life.
Mr. Tea
Shub-Niggurath, Please
Well obviously it's closer to the 'top' than, say, Florida or California. But I think this just illustrates how hard it is for most Brits (and probably most Europeans generally) to grasp the sheer scale of North America. It's easy to think of Chicago as being "close to Canada" like Newcastle is "close to Scotland", but the min road distance is about 300 miles in one case and under 50 miles in the other case.
Mr. Tea
Shub-Niggurath, Please
That makes good sense musicologically - although both cities are in the south of the North, and quite far from Scotland!
Mr. Tea
Shub-Niggurath, Please
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All the death that’s occurred on this planet, wtf is that about? There’s some cunt out there who’ll near enough take their last breath, just as you take yours. Out there, now, very much alive and breathing, just like you. And you’ll never know who they are, or were, their name or their passions through the prism of their own consciousness. Their memories, their experiences, their relationships, how they thought of themselves as a human and their place on a rock hurtling through space and time
Tenants of souls, never owners. You never own your existence, you’re a renter. All the background operating systems you’re not even aware of, all their supporting functions, so many opportunities for it all to go wrong. Encountering the God of Wrong is part of cannabis. It exists but, like a demon, you can parlay. Once you accept this existential threat is inevitable, you can meditate on the divine. All other concerns cease and then you realise you have to be up in 5 hours
All the death that’s occurred on this planet, wtf is that about? There’s some cunt out there who’ll near enough take their last breath, just as you take yours. Out there, now, very much alive and breathing, just like you. And you’ll never know who they are, or were, their name or their passions through the prism of their own consciousness. Their memories, their experiences, their relationships, how they thought of themselves as a human and their place on a rock hurtling through space and time
Tenants of souls, never owners. You never own your existence, you’re a renter. All the background operating systems you’re not even aware of, all their supporting functions, so many opportunities for it all to go wrong. Encountering the God of Wrong is part of cannabis. It exists but, like a demon, you can parlay. Once you accept this existential threat is inevitable, you can meditate on the divine. All other concerns cease and then you realise you have to be up in 5 hours