I always found the marionettes disturbingly Garboesque, especially the later, uncanny valley versions -- I remember reading a contemporary of Garbo talking about her perfect blankness and stillness, and how her magnetism was less about her incredible expressiveness than about her total inwardness and inexpressiveness. She was just so terrifyingly perfect and photogenic and remote that she was a perfect empty vessel into which the audience could pour every conceivable emotion.
The supermarionation puppets are so very much her Uncanny Valley döpplegangers: those unnaturally perfect cheekbones and the eerily flawless skin and perfect hair and Anderson's penchant for endless puppet reaction shots. All those aesthetically perfect, alien faces with those impenetrably deep blank stares. Cree. Pee.
Cool Co Worker just bought the dvds for The Fantastic Journey, about a group of people who are trapped in the Bermuda Triangle and go from portal to portal or time to time or something. We watched some of it at lunch.
Kind of OT, but DebetEsse, you were IB, right? What did you guys have to focus on for 20th century world history? (We did a lot on WW1, a bit on the events leading to WW2, and then a lot on the Cold War and Vietnam. We had The End of the European Era and Where the Domino Fell as our main texts senior year.)
Plei, I was not. I was in AP Euro and US, but that works differently (and my Euro teacher sucked a lot. It was her last year before she retired)
UFO had the best costumes and set designs of any sci-fi show ever. They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.
I can see where they might have been seminal in some anime artistic conventions.
They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.
That's
why I'm single. My childhood expectations as to what women of the future would be like were never met....
They really gave a lot of thought to how people would look and dress in the future.
Laughing so hard right now. Did someone say UFO took place in the 1980s? When we evolved
purple
hair?
Now I am wondering if there's a species with purple hair.
Did someone say UFO took place in the 1980s?
Early 70s. And that character was an alien, I think.
