Ha! PASIV xpost.
The totem behaves differently in someone else's dream because that someone doesn't know the details of your totem. So they get It wrong, like
he rug in Saito's apartment
. The top is weird, by that logic. Maybe it was an image and concept nolan couldn't resist.
ita, I hope I'm whitefonting enough, but if not can you fix it? I'm stupid tired and on my iPhone.
As for the Bechdel test, it's kind of like the BMI in that it is a simple tool that can show a trend if applied widely across a number of films and other media. It doesn't prove that a movie is good or bad (Bar Girls, anyone?). It's one indicator, and needs to be taken in context. Not that I'm saying any Buffista isn't.
It struck me as pretty silly that
people are being trained to defend themselves against extraction when, to get you in a shared dream in the first place, someone has to have you at their mercy physically, sedate you, and hook you up to a machine linking you all together. If they can do that they can kill or kidnap you and do whatever they want in your absence anyway
.
Slate
discusses David Bowie's acting career:
Cracked Actor
By this point, Bowie seemed on the cusp of a full-fledged acting career. In 1983, in addition to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Bowie appeared in The Hunger as (typecasting again!) the 400-year-old lover of vampire goddess Catherine Deneuve. The movie is a schlockfest of early-MTV flourishes (flash cuts, flapping birds) and it's most noteworthy for a demure love scene between Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. But the opening credit sequence is irresistible: While Bauhaus perform the sinuous goth standard "Bela Lugosi's Dead," Deneuve and Bowie prowl a cavernous nightclub in search of fresh blood, smirking hotly at each other and blowing pheromones with their cigarette smoke.
The Hunger as (typecasting again!) the 400-year-old lover of vampire goddess Catherine Deneuve. The movie is a schlockfest of early-MTV flourishes (flash cuts, flapping birds) and it's most noteworthy for a demure love scene between Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.
How did I not know that this existed?
How did I not know that this existed?
You're too young?
It was sorta' a big deal when the movie came out in '83-ish....
God, now I have a craving to watch it again. All kinds of nice soft-focus vampiness.
Yeah I was busy being born and mastering the whole holding-my-head-up thing that year. Still though, that seems like enough fabulous things in a movie that I should have heard of it.
Still though, that seems like enough fabulous things in a movie that I should have heard of it.
Indeed, it's rather a cliche of awesome eighties imagery. It's all opera and goth and beautiful cheekbones and flash cuts and ankhs. Ann Magnuson plays this sexy little punk girl who does a sexy little dance before she's killed by Bowie.
It's directed by Tony Scott, the younger brother of Ridley. He also directed True Romance.
Ann Magnuson plays this sexy little punk girl who does a sexy little dance before she's killed by Bowie.
Ooh, I didn't know that. (Although I didn't know who Magnuson was when the flick came out.)
