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The equipment predominated and the actors were to be rushed in, milked of their functions, and then rushed out.
Han Ong, "Fiesta of the Damned," in Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World, ed. Jessica Hagedorn. Penguin: 2004. p. 383
A cynic's romantic (think Fritz Lang's "Metropolis") view of moviemaking. Romantic in the sense that anyone who would build a machine where a man has to move the arms of a gigantic clock would bother to provide such a nice-looking clock to change the arms of. The commentary on moviemaking in this story is entertaining for its love of machinery. I love descriptions of machinery, and attempts to stuff humans into machine metaphors (mostly because they often fail elegantly).
Which reminds me, though, that I wish people would read up more on A Clockwork Orange. Or, perhaps, that I'd read up on it less, so I wouldn't spend so much time talking to, and getting lightly frustrated by, the people who don't know what Burgess thought of, and intended about, the whole mess.
Han Ong, "Fiesta of the Damned," in Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World, ed. Jessica Hagedorn. Penguin: 2004. p. 383
A cynic's romantic (think Fritz Lang's "Metropolis") view of moviemaking. Romantic in the sense that anyone who would build a machine where a man has to move the arms of a gigantic clock would bother to provide such a nice-looking clock to change the arms of. The commentary on moviemaking in this story is entertaining for its love of machinery. I love descriptions of machinery, and attempts to stuff humans into machine metaphors (mostly because they often fail elegantly).
Which reminds me, though, that I wish people would read up more on A Clockwork Orange. Or, perhaps, that I'd read up on it less, so I wouldn't spend so much time talking to, and getting lightly frustrated by, the people who don't know what Burgess thought of, and intended about, the whole mess.