Electric Dragon 80000V

[fabio rainelli]

Sorry Patrick,for all troubles....Next time I'll send a brilliant review ,as 
you've done.
FABIO


>From: patrick <Patrick.Crogan at uts.edu.au>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Re: Electric Dragon 80000V
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:13:36 +1100
>
>I appreciate Don Brown's raising of Electric Dragon as a topic on the list 
>(refreshing
>after all the 'can you help me find this?' postings). But I would like to 
>challenge the
>implicit agreement he seeks (via his 'undoubtedly') in calling this a dumb 
>film. I'd like
>to know what Don says about the 'well hidden' brain of this film; perhaps 
>we aren't be in
>such disagreement.
>
>To me, this film is very 'intelligent' for a variety of reasons: 
>manga/anime, music video
>clip and narrative feature mixture, it plays on and with these forms via an 
>overarching
>theme of electricity. The retro-manga/US comic book story about how a heavy 
>dose of
>electricity has fried the rational higher level brain functions of our 
>hero, partially
>desroying their repressive function so that the 'primal' dragon element of 
>the brain
>always threatens to overflow into his reality and destroy him and it may be 
>less than
>'serious', 'diginified' and 'realistic' as per the traditional expectations 
>of live action
>feature narrative film. But it allows for a film that explores and revels 
>in intense
>affects and sound-images of extremity  that try to perform (rather than 
>represent) power,
>overflowing, collision, the loss of reason etc. The retro allusion to 
>industrial modernity
>(machines, electric guitars, steel and sparks and so forth) works well with 
>the dated
>narrative about electricity in an age when 'data' flows along optical fibre 
>register the
>modern cutting edge. The film has a wry nostalgia for the poetics of 
>(industrial) power
>and its potential for reappropriation that punk and heavy metal at its best 
>often achieved
>in a late romantic fashion.
>
>Don Brown wrote:
>
> >  It's undoubtedly a dumb
> > movie, of the disengage-brain-at-the-door variety, but it does have one 
>of
> > its own (well hidden).  I liked it a lot.
> >
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