Screens

A place to talk about movies, TV and videos on Farcaster.

Watching “The Outside Man “ (1972) I knew it existed but never got around to. LA location extravaganza and a pretty good chase down in Speedway, canals and the old amusement park in Venice

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070083/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Antiques dealer, machine psychologist. http://www.musicinphasespace.com

Digging and turns put screenplay by Jean Claude Carrierre who worked with Buñuel. Also Roy Scheider tye year after French connection. Regrettable I haven’t watched this before

Scientist and engineer interested in Life.

Work on (GOF)AI, Agriculture, Biology, Energy, Robotics, Space---all topics climate-aware.

Kuriyama, Yubari District, Hokkaido, Japan

I’m not familiar with Hollywood dynamics of the era, but to add a datapoint from India, the early 70s represent a sharp break from the past, usually associated with Zanjeer (chains), the movie that established Amitabh Bachchan as a star with what’s known as the “angry young man” character archetype, which has since been a mainstay of Bollywood storytelling.

There’s a great recent documentary about the turn. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14866598/

Protagonists before then were historical figures (30s-40s), cliched political idealists (50s), or 2d romcom characters (60s). The idealism of the independence movement was still in the air (similar to WW2 veteran idealism in American movies). But by the early 70s, the grim realities of modernity had sunk in, and a post-independence realist generation had emerged, mad about corruption, inflation, urban blight etc.

Here's my theory. During the 70s, there were a bunch of consolidations, like Gulf Western taking over film studios and everything. So before that, the silent generation that was in charge of Hollywood have no understanding Of the big generation, and the hippies, and the opposition to the war in Vietnam, and they still were working under the old Hollywood music industry, that you need to produce 10 for 1 to succeed. That was before Jaws, and they decided that they could actually reverse engineer entertainment, both in music and in film which had been a long managed decline

Was 1972 a special year in cinema? Pure chance but watched two movies from that year recently, completely unrelated, but  they felt original and raw. I know little of that era, and they may just be copycats.

The movies are “Fear is the key” and “Silent Run”.

off & onchain operations
<--->
Sharing ideas over at /workflow <--->
Problem solving is my jam😎
🎩

It was a simplification. Of course these influences are all connected and inspired by each other in obvious and subtle ways.

Let me pushback on that. I think it’s a French movie with LA locations. If it looks so gorgeous is because foreign directors photograph the US the best. Also, there’s no Bullit without the French wave minimalism, location shooting , natural lightning, elliptic editing, ambiguity, jazz, and observational cinematography.. And yes, there’s no French wave without Hollywood meat and potato’s storytelling

Another film heavily influenced by Bullet