Category: TV, Film & Video
The Boys From Brazil - a comedy?
Quotes from The Boys from Brazil (1978) starring those well-known comic turns, Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele and Laurence Olivier as Ezra Lieberman, all backed by a wonderfully melodramatic score by Jerry Goldsmith.
Lieberman - Feel free to ignore your responsibilities while my property is being ruined!
Landlord - You have no right to bring these heavy cabinets in here.
Lieberman - All right, all right! So next time rent to a feather merchant!
Lieberman - Mr Kohler, it may be a blinding revelation to you that there are Nazis in Paraguay, but I assure you, it is no news to me. And if you stay there much longer, there will still be Nazis in Paraguay, but there will be one less Jewish boy in the world.
Lieberman - He's been there... some weeks. I told him to go home and he hung up. What did he want? Applause?
Beynon - How are you getting along?
Lieberman - Can't complain. Who'd listen?
Beynon - I'm so sorry, I'm late for lunch.
Lieberman - Always such a prodigious appetite!
Beynon - What?
Lieberman - Eight times last week I called you, and each time you were at lunch. Maybe you have a tapeworm?
Beynon - Have you any idea how many men in their mid-60s die every day?
Lieberman - I try not to think about it.
Simon Harrington - Don't you understand English, you arse?
Lieberman - If you want to ask the questions, you pay for the phone call!
Gertrud - Get a doctor!
Mengele - I am a doctor, idiot!
Gertrud - Don't you come near him!
Mengele - Shut up, you ugly bitch!
Doctor - Then he was nothing more than a sadist, really.
Lieberman - A sadist with an MD and a PhD.
Lieberman - Well, some people would say that's a perfect definition of a scientist.
Lieberman - Did you kill Wheelock?
Mengele - No... he's in the kitchen, mixing us some cocktails!
Mengele - A Hitler tailor-made for the 1980s!
That's not even to mention the bit with the puppet. imdb defines the genre as "Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller". We could add Comedy to that list, but it is better to consider if great drama always invokes comedy (and vice-versa).
Tales from the fringes of the K-T Boundary
65 million years ago, on a small greenish blue planet, several giant lizards were discussing last night's television.
"I love that Can't Hunt Won't Hunt," said the first one.
"I’m not a fan of reality TV," said the next.
"I know what you mean," agreed his friend.
The last of the great beasts considered this and said: "Shit! What’s that?"
At that moment a meteor of gargantuan proportions screamed overhead.
This was the last conversation any dinosaur ever had. Makes you think, eh?
mr huggotron's myspaz here
Local telly archives
Thanks to the BBC Creative Archive, UK folks can now download archive video of those media hotspots, Lincolshire and Humberside, as well as some other areas.
Of course, this service isn't just serving historical interest in such events as the opening of the A65 South Docks Road in Hull, above, or the massive chemical works explosion at Flixborough. It's to give the public back some of the content their licence-fees have paid for as raw materials for new creative works. Right now, I can't think of anything to do with video of the opening of Scunthorpe Steel Works beyond gaping in awe:
last night in notts
Two short clips of Virus Syndicate with incredibly overdriven bass:
http://www.youtube.com/?v=XYnrngpeVPU
http://www.youtube.com/?v=t88KTQMLGcI
UPDATE: Check out these much better official videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=loomfestival
Top Ten Spaceships #10: Mon Calamari Cruiser
Perhaps not the most obvious Star Wars space-ship to feature in this definitive list (ahem, the Millennium Falcon); the Mon-Calamari Cruiser is however both the back-bone of the rebel fleet and can stand up to an Imperial Star Destroyer one on one, not to mention the fact that it translates as "My Squid"!
This globular vessel has size, firepower and speed on its side; making it a fearsome opponent in battle. The location of its "bridge" is not obvious to the enemy, which is somewhat unique across the entire spectrum of sci-fi, and is especially clever of the hull designers considering it's usual designation as a fleet command ship.
Yello - Desert Inn (from Stella; see also Stella [Remastered])
Elephants march past Super Eagles
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/4683462.stm
Well it's a shame Nigeria had to go out before the final, Jon Obi Mikel has shown some great touches, what a player he'll turn out to be. Just hopefully not at Chelsea, where he'll be turned in to some mindless automaton whose only weapon is pace - i.e. Duff, Cole, Robben. But I put a quid down on Ivory Coast to win the cup at 8-1. They beat Egypt and that's nine quid back for me. They lose and that'd one less quid to worry about. I can't see Senegal pooping any parties. Tune into Eurosport to find out, eh?
Oh, and there's troubles with the server, no mp3s for a while, don't panic.
The only joke Eric Idle can remember
A man goes into a bar, and another guy comes in and hits him over the head with an iron bar.
The first guy says 'was that meant to be a joke?'
The second guy says 'no, it was serious' and the first guy replies;
'Good, I can't stand jokes like that.'
(from the Aristocrats)
The Surgery - More Weed!
Alternative 3
Brian Eno - Alternative 3 soundtrack (excerpt)
from Alternative 3 - Science Report, April 1st 1977
Alternative 3 on imdb, Wikipedia, Museum of Hoaxes
Simon of the desert
from Simón del desierto - Luis Buñuel, 1965
ed2k link - what's ed2k? - english subtitles - imdb - amazon.co.uk
Kenneth Trax TV Series: A Plot Outline
We walk past a rune on the floor which transports us back to a different time.
We meet Adam and Eve. They are always on bicycles, naked and slightly old.
We meet Sylvester Stallone, who occasionally quotes from his films, mostly incidental lines from Rocky. He is friendly but slightly self-conscious.
There are agents gathering in the old school. They sit in a room silently. They wear the Groucho Marx glasses/nose/moustache combination. To recruit they simply remove the glasses and hypnotise another victim with their unmasked gaze, then produce a set of glasses for the new victim to wear.
Stallone leads us out into the garden to get some air.
Adam and Eve cycle in from the desert cheerfully and join us as we sit.
Adam and Eve explain that many people have wandered into their time to try and destroy the human race. Of course usually they fail because Adam and Eve are immortal in this place. However the agents are here to hypnotise Adam and Eve therefore all subsequent humans.
The agents get to Adam first - we see him with the glasses and moustache. It is a terrible and horrifying sight.
Suddenly all the men in our party are also hypnotised. The women run away at once. It is now up to them to solve this problem.
The women realise that they have to approach the hypnotised men rather than run away from them.
They convince Stallone that he needn't be hypnotised, in fact it makes him look quite silly. Stallone breaks out of the hypnosis first and is such a strong male role model that the other men quickly break out of theirs.
All the hypnotised people who arrived as agents realise they are co-operating willingly but decide its fun and carry on wearing the glasses. They leave to explore free will.
We say goodbye to Stallone and thank him. He walks off up a mountain and disappears suggesting he may have been Jesus all along.
Finally Adam and Eve inform us that we must step over the rune again but that we must say farewell. Will we be returned to our world or some other adventure?
Zoom in on the rune, dissolve to credits.
Davinche - Misty Blue (from Dirty Canvas 3)
