[microsound] [ot] code 46 | city of the future

[Dennis McNulty <d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Graham,

I haven't seen code 46 yet, but this strikes a chord with me:
 
> just simple devices, like recontexualizing settings, calling hong kong
> baghdad or whatever, or shooting mexico city as if it's some futuristic
> version of los angeles, is incredibly appealing and bathes these kinds
> of imagined sci-fi worlds in a kind of realism and detail that CG or
> plywood sets could never accomplish. the guggenheim becomes a shopping
> mall food court... the petronas towers in kuala lumpur become condos...
> and in the end, it's closer to way things will be, i think.

A film where this approach really works is 'alphaville' by Godard. One of my
favourite films ever. Paris in the early sixties becomes Alphaville : total
noir dystopia. It goes even further than just the location. Behavioural stuff.
Pretty simple but great. The use of music on the soundtrack is fantastic too:
it frequently just cuts out when it would ordinarally crescendo. Swimming pool
as a location for public exectution.

I could go on!!

d.

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