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Today shall be known as the day of technology terror. First, when my laptop started playing random music and interviews, I feared it had caught something. However, the virus scan came back clean. The problem, however, did not disappear as random things going batshit on your computer never manage to sort themselves out. I did the reasonable thing, Googled my problem, and today, after a full system scan by another tool, I've ejected two rootkits and a trojan.
Little fucking bastards. Right now, I'm on the netbook while another full scan runs just to be sure I've no unwanted passengers.
I went back to the theatre to see Prometheus, and the film definitely improves on a second viewing. It's deeper, richer. It's also much, much more apparent that the film is working on the level of the mythic and symbolic rather than the psychologically realistic. There were more moments where I went, "You'd have to be the dumbest fucker in the world to do that," or, "It doesn't make sense that X is happening." However, all those moments were so charged with resonance, with meaning that transcended the act or the moment. This is not a film that is, in any way, scientifically or psychologically realistic. Events happen and characters act because of what those events and actions symbolize.
Yes, I do love narrativess that work on that level. I know they aren't everyone's cuppa, but I adore them. Like Dr. Shaw, I have a growing list of questions I want answered about the Engineers and the Alien-verse. I hope we have more films that will explore them.
So... Prometheus. There were definitely more people at this showing than the one I went to last weekend. When the trailers came up, I put on my 3D glasses. Now, most of the trailers were not 3D, but it's not like it fucks them up. Except today, it did. Colors went wonky, and I got that ugly bluegreen and red blur. So I went out and got a new pair of glasses. Same thing. I thought, "Well, maybe it's just the 2D stuff." That was until the Life of Pi trailer started. It is in 3D, and it was most profoundly out of focus, off-color, and all-around fucked up.
By this point, people around me are taking off their glasses, looking at them, putting them back on, muttering. The dude and his grandson at the end of my row are doing that. Grandpa is telling him it's just a 3D thing. I'm like, "Bullshit. I saw this movie last week, and it wasn't like this."
The funny thing: no one is doing anything. Just muttering a lot.
That is until the 20th Century Fox logo came up at the start of Prometheus, and the "A Viacom Company" that shows up at the bottom of the screen and stands out in the 3D was nearly unreadable. At that point, there is a mass exodus from the theatre. About 30 people (and I'm one of them) leave and converge on the ticketing girl.
OMG! SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH OUR MOVIE! FIX IT! FIX IT NOW!
She paged the manager who came out and assured us he was going to be fixing it, so the mob wandered back to the theatre. The movie ran for a few minutes more, then it went black and started back up in the middle of the previews.
Crisis averted. Alien goodness provided. Audience content.
Little fucking bastards. Right now, I'm on the netbook while another full scan runs just to be sure I've no unwanted passengers.
I went back to the theatre to see Prometheus, and the film definitely improves on a second viewing. It's deeper, richer. It's also much, much more apparent that the film is working on the level of the mythic and symbolic rather than the psychologically realistic. There were more moments where I went, "You'd have to be the dumbest fucker in the world to do that," or, "It doesn't make sense that X is happening." However, all those moments were so charged with resonance, with meaning that transcended the act or the moment. This is not a film that is, in any way, scientifically or psychologically realistic. Events happen and characters act because of what those events and actions symbolize.
Yes, I do love narrativess that work on that level. I know they aren't everyone's cuppa, but I adore them. Like Dr. Shaw, I have a growing list of questions I want answered about the Engineers and the Alien-verse. I hope we have more films that will explore them.
So... Prometheus. There were definitely more people at this showing than the one I went to last weekend. When the trailers came up, I put on my 3D glasses. Now, most of the trailers were not 3D, but it's not like it fucks them up. Except today, it did. Colors went wonky, and I got that ugly bluegreen and red blur. So I went out and got a new pair of glasses. Same thing. I thought, "Well, maybe it's just the 2D stuff." That was until the Life of Pi trailer started. It is in 3D, and it was most profoundly out of focus, off-color, and all-around fucked up.
By this point, people around me are taking off their glasses, looking at them, putting them back on, muttering. The dude and his grandson at the end of my row are doing that. Grandpa is telling him it's just a 3D thing. I'm like, "Bullshit. I saw this movie last week, and it wasn't like this."
The funny thing: no one is doing anything. Just muttering a lot.
That is until the 20th Century Fox logo came up at the start of Prometheus, and the "A Viacom Company" that shows up at the bottom of the screen and stands out in the 3D was nearly unreadable. At that point, there is a mass exodus from the theatre. About 30 people (and I'm one of them) leave and converge on the ticketing girl.
OMG! SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH OUR MOVIE! FIX IT! FIX IT NOW!
She paged the manager who came out and assured us he was going to be fixing it, so the mob wandered back to the theatre. The movie ran for a few minutes more, then it went black and started back up in the middle of the previews.
Crisis averted. Alien goodness provided. Audience content.
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Prometheus seems very archetypal. It makes much more sense on a symbolic level, I agree. If symbolic narratives are done correctly I love them. I think Prometheus did it without seeming too heavy handed.
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Yes, some films don't manage the heavy symbolism well and become either overly preachy or terribly obscure. I think Prometheus managed to reveal mysteries (of the mundane and religious sort) without falling into those traps.