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Friday, 16 January 2009
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That was pretty well done.
ReplyDeleteI think it's ironic that the more "retro" people get with making movies, the more high tech tools they have to use to make them.
I'll always have a soft spot for forced perspective, cardboard, and models. Although that greenscreen and effects software comes in mighty handy!!
Buck Rogers? Why does it sound familiar? Maybe it's a knockoff of Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th century.
ReplyDeleteThe music comes from "Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow" .
Love the screeching sound that the rocket makes when it skids on the steel deck. I wonder if anyone in the history of Buck Rogers ever explained how the rocket copes with gravity when it lands on a planet.
Ivan...
ReplyDeleteSurely you know Duck Dodgers is a parody of Buck Rogers.
(1930s vs 1950s)
The reference to Altair 4 is an homage` to 'Forbidden Planet'.
(The toy should have looked more like Robbie.)
I'll have to watch some episodes of the thrilling serials but
I know Buck has an anti gravity belt he uses as a bi-directional parachute.
No way, man! Duck Dodgerth (in the Tewnty-Forthth-and-a-Hafth Thenntury!) was the one, the true, the original character of that general description! Or at least, once D. Dodgers came on the scene, everything that happened before became irrelevant. As happened to Mr. Cooper, in my view, when I read Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses.
ReplyDeleteIt just occurred to me that these kinds of programs required paying adult human beings, who were not Buster Crabbe, to wear goofy helmets with things sticking out of them. For some reason I found the thought hilariously funny.
ReplyDeleteJayessell, rest assured that I know who came first.
ReplyDeleteDon't even try to fool me.
And there has to be a reason why the clothes are reminiscent of ancient Rome. Maybe not so much in here as much as in Duck Dodgers.
Ivan: I've always wondered about the Roman garb as a future thing too. Everything from Flash Gordon to Star Wars has featured flowing capes as standard wear for good and bad guys alike.
ReplyDeleteI guess that means we need to add capes to the short list of futurific things along with flying cars and jetpacks. Just don't wear the cape with the jetpack!!
Ok without Buck Rogers (forget the dialogue too). Humm...just keep the CGI...
ReplyDeleteIvan, Neil...
ReplyDeleteRe: Romanesqe future fashions
I don't know how they dressed in the Ruck Rogers comics, but I assummed the Roman inspired fashions were the wardrobe department recycling inventory from the 'sand and sandal' epics of the silent era.
I imagine you are right about that, either a situation of "what's not being used right now?" or "that would look out of this world wouldn't it?" or a combination of the two!
ReplyDeleteOnce budgets were justifiable for space epics suits improved.
The cape seems to be hanging on though for some reason.
The underground city segment of "The Shape of Things to Come" had Roman looking clothing also.
ReplyDelete(The ruined London segment.... Mad Max!)