It is very pleasant reading a mini-thon of your reactions to the Fest.
Thank you! Did you make it back for any of the festival films yourself?
On the other hand, one can imagine how much more poorly the film might have been made in this millennium, with a paint-by-the-numbers denatured hero’s journey “structuring” it.
I am aware there is a remake and I am staying away. It can't possibly improve on Ralph Richardson giving an obstructive supercomputer the boot.
There’s probably a short story, or a least an RPG one-shot, in the idea of resistance agents trying to get models and prints of Frau im Mond to the enemies of the Nazis. Less grey morally, if perhaps not pulpier, than the reality of von Braun and company smuggled by schooner to a secret hotel in Boston harbor.
Write it! I'd read it. That's a lovely secret history.
I sometimes wonder if Gen X creators could strengthen younger generations by obsessing a bit more about the ways resources were mobilized by society to successfully combat scourges like AIDS and ozone holes.
I do not think it could hurt. Collective action no longer seems heroized except when there's a YA rebel at the head of it.
Re: the aftermath of 'thon
Thank you! Did you make it back for any of the festival films yourself?
On the other hand, one can imagine how much more poorly the film might have been made in this millennium, with a paint-by-the-numbers denatured hero’s journey “structuring” it.
I am aware there is a remake and I am staying away. It can't possibly improve on Ralph Richardson giving an obstructive supercomputer the boot.
There’s probably a short story, or a least an RPG one-shot, in the idea of resistance agents trying to get models and prints of Frau im Mond to the enemies of the Nazis. Less grey morally, if perhaps not pulpier, than the reality of von Braun and company smuggled by schooner to a secret hotel in Boston harbor.
Write it! I'd read it. That's a lovely secret history.
I sometimes wonder if Gen X creators could strengthen younger generations by obsessing a bit more about the ways resources were mobilized by society to successfully combat scourges like AIDS and ozone holes.
I do not think it could hurt. Collective action no longer seems heroized except when there's a YA rebel at the head of it.