tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post8772535384397079874..comments2024-03-25T12:31:58.169+00:00Comments on David Stimpson: THEPRIS6NERDavid Stimpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-63215049895843263302012-10-17T09:40:39.309+01:002012-10-17T09:40:39.309+01:00Hello Arno,
I can see your point about 'I...Hello Arno,<br /><br /> I can see your point about 'Inception,' I do wonder that if it was not for it's Prisoneresqueness would Morag and I have been drawn to the film in the first palce? Probably not. And in that case, really it is a poor thing to be drawn to something, because one sees the influence of something else, and not for it's own entity.<br /><br />Kind regards<br />David<br />Be seeing youDavid Stimpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-86238314417382518792012-10-16T09:53:37.730+01:002012-10-16T09:53:37.730+01:00Yes, I can see this point. And most probably I wil...Yes, I can see this point. And most probably I will add "Inception" to my own list of prisoneresue movies or TV films. Deserves it. But ultimately, to me, the majority of all this alternative reality stuff tends to stay far below the imaginative writings of Phil Dick in his very best novels or stories that is, such as "Martian Time Slip", "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich" and, of course, "Ubik". Thus, I'd like to see a movie made of "Stigmata". No, I wouldn't. Instead keep remembering my own images of it. No. 6: "I like my dreams". Perhaps I was expecting too much of "Inception". - BCNU!nr6dehttp://www.nummer6-theprisoner.denoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-2924606160611305632012-10-16T09:14:07.954+01:002012-10-16T09:14:07.954+01:00Hello Arno,
That's a fair enough comment....Hello Arno,<br /><br /> That's a fair enough comment. Yet the film does have a Prisoneresque quality, and it was that very Prisoneresqueness that first drew me to the film in the first place. The fact that a team had infiltrated the subconscious dreams of a man. And the fact that THEPRIS6NER-09 series takes place in the subconscious mind. I could see the parallel.<br /><br /> Oh there was never any great danger of a film of 'the Prisoner' ever being produced. Yes there was a great deal of talk, and for a very long time. But that is all it was, talk and nothing more. Yet having said that, today I know someone who has written a manuscript based on 'the Prisoner.' It's set in the original Village, which not is a very good novel, but would make an excellent film, nay television series!<br /><br />Kind regards<br />David<br />Be seeing youDavid Stimpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-4663894850060330282012-10-15T13:54:09.319+01:002012-10-15T13:54:09.319+01:00By chance I was watching "Inception" rec...By chance I was watching "Inception" recently on TV. According to the word of mouth it was to be an extraordinary SF-work with stunning visuals, a new approach to the realm of fantasy, the dream and alternate reality subject. <br /><br />However, having seen it I'd tend to keep it low key. Overwhelming visuals? I'd say I saw exactly 1 (in words: one). That's when a whole district of Paris, just by the power of imagination, is folded upside down upon the character's reality. A sense of wonder, here it is. Otherwise I hardly found anything new, nothing in the way of, say, David Lynch's disturbing b/w images of his early "Eraserhead". There was only the notion of an overblown "Twilight Zone" episode instead. <br /><br />That's something I'd call unflattering for a movie experience and not unlike our P09. Nothing bothering me in particular. A commuter train full of characters none of whom I didn't care switching in between dream-realities. The unfolding action with lots of gunfire and bullets flying left me rather unaffected compared to that of "Heat" (alright, it's a bit unfair, they are very different films). Because you are watching but all you do is take notice of it. You've seen it before, "The Matrix" and its boring nonsensical kung-fu fights; ever read stories by Philip K. Dick, seen "The Sixth Sense" or "Dark City"? Then you know what the end of it was going to be like. A fair fantasy film, well it is. Hardly more. And a bit disappointing keeping in mind that Nolan was slated as director of a proposed "Prisoner" feature film of which I'm more than sure that I wouldn't want seeing it ever released. - BCNU!nr6dehttp://www.nummer6-theprisoner.denoreply@blogger.com