only half intelligent
A promotional ad in The Sydney Morning Herald Metro section today for Russian action film, Piranha (Okhota na piranyu):
"A high-energy action-adventure which topped the Russian box-office in 2006. Under the guise of a romantic holiday, a Russian secret service agent (Vladimir Mashkov) and a beautiful biochemist (Svetlana Antonova) are sent to Siberia to neutralise a cache of abandoned chemical weapons. They soon discover that the weapons dump and surrounding area have been taken over by the insane Prohor (Yevgeny Mironov) and his gang of killers, whose hobby is hunting humans like safari game."
*yawn* The generic action-movie staple of the beautiful female scientist and the resourceful (and in all likelihood misogynist) military/secret service guy teaming up to save the world. How many times have we seen that? The Peacemaker, anyone? The World is Not Enough?
I love that in Battlestar Galactica we have a couple like Six and Baltar: the rakish, arrogant genius and the "hard-core" warrior-bombshell who dominates both physically and mentally (if not always emotionally), and who manipulates and also protects him. Of course, those two are villains/antiheroes; the reversal of expected roles is perhaps more obvious in John and Aeryn, the central protagonists of Farscape, even Trinity and Neo? Speaking of Aeryn and Trinity, you should check out rez_lo's picspam of hero women wielding big guns.
Female scientists on the big screen is a short New Scientist article comparing the male and female stereotypes of the scientist in film. It has several links to other relevant articles and essays at the bottom.
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Where the bleeding hell is the Cremorne Orpheum? and how do I get there?
I'm going to have to figure it out because that's the only cinema in Sydney that's showing 2 films that I'm rather keen to see: U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha (Bizet's Carmen transplanted to a modern-day South African township, it won the Gold Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last year), and Hephzibah (1998 documentary about concert pianist Hephzibah Menuhin, the sister of the famous Yehuda Menuhin).
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Finally, I have to share this track from Michael Nyman's score for The Libertine, which was the one thing that I liked unequivocably about that movie.
[mp3] Upon Leaving His Mistress
Not his most innovative score, but still unmistakeably Nyman, beautiful and austere.
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ETA: Find Tom Cruise a new job. By having fun with Photoshop. :)
"A high-energy action-adventure which topped the Russian box-office in 2006. Under the guise of a romantic holiday, a Russian secret service agent (Vladimir Mashkov) and a beautiful biochemist (Svetlana Antonova) are sent to Siberia to neutralise a cache of abandoned chemical weapons. They soon discover that the weapons dump and surrounding area have been taken over by the insane Prohor (Yevgeny Mironov) and his gang of killers, whose hobby is hunting humans like safari game."
*yawn* The generic action-movie staple of the beautiful female scientist and the resourceful (and in all likelihood misogynist) military/secret service guy teaming up to save the world. How many times have we seen that? The Peacemaker, anyone? The World is Not Enough?
I love that in Battlestar Galactica we have a couple like Six and Baltar: the rakish, arrogant genius and the "hard-core" warrior-bombshell who dominates both physically and mentally (if not always emotionally), and who manipulates and also protects him. Of course, those two are villains/antiheroes; the reversal of expected roles is perhaps more obvious in John and Aeryn, the central protagonists of Farscape, even Trinity and Neo? Speaking of Aeryn and Trinity, you should check out rez_lo's picspam of hero women wielding big guns.
Female scientists on the big screen is a short New Scientist article comparing the male and female stereotypes of the scientist in film. It has several links to other relevant articles and essays at the bottom.
~
Where the bleeding hell is the Cremorne Orpheum? and how do I get there?
I'm going to have to figure it out because that's the only cinema in Sydney that's showing 2 films that I'm rather keen to see: U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha (Bizet's Carmen transplanted to a modern-day South African township, it won the Gold Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last year), and Hephzibah (1998 documentary about concert pianist Hephzibah Menuhin, the sister of the famous Yehuda Menuhin).
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Finally, I have to share this track from Michael Nyman's score for The Libertine, which was the one thing that I liked unequivocably about that movie.
[mp3] Upon Leaving His Mistress
Not his most innovative score, but still unmistakeably Nyman, beautiful and austere.
~
ETA: Find Tom Cruise a new job. By having fun with Photoshop. :)