Tuesday, November 3, 2009

A HANDFUL



I would like to have one of those.



I was reading about punks for my deviance class while listening to this and it made me visualize a scene for a movie. This song would be playing at a punk party and everything would be slowed down. I can visualize it very well and I imagine punk scenes from the punk kids I used to hang around with a little bit. I think it would be interesting to make a movie encapsulating the punk world of the kids in the valley. It is strange to think about at the same time. We watched the beginning of this film Jubilee in my film class:

"Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, and a host of proto-Goths and punk rockers. In Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth I is transported forward in time by the occultist John Dee through the spirit guide Ariel (a character from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Queen Elizabeth arrives in the shattered Britain of the 1970s. Queen Elizabeth II is dead, killed in an arbitrary mugging, and Elizabeth I moves through the social and physical decay of the city observing the activities of a group of sporadic nihilists called Amyl Nitrate (Jordan), Bod (Jenny Runacre), Chaos (Hermine Demoriane), Crabs (Nell Campbell), and Mad (Toyah Willcox). The film is heavily influenced by the 1970s punk aesthetic in its style and presentation. Shot in grainy colour it is largely plotless, episodic, untidy, confrontational, often incoherent and noisily anti-establishment and anti-royalty (Buckingham Palace has become a recording studio run by a seedy music producer named Borgia Ginz). Numerous punk icons appear in the film including Jordan (the Malcolm McLaren protege), Toyah Willcox, Nell Campbell (Little Nell), Adam Ant, Hermine Demoriane and Wayne County. It features performances by Wayne County and Adam and the Ants. There are also cameo appearances by The Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The film was scored by Brian Eno.




There is this part where Mad, the orange haired one says:
"Don't like your house? Burn it down! Don't like your street? Demolish it!" or something along those lines.

1 comment:

Ian said...

i DID have one of those cameras. impossible to find film for, but the jingle is mesmerizing.