18-07-2009, 12:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-01-2010, 11:06 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
Separate post. Separate and entirely speculative thought.
The great movie director Nicholas Roeg was a former Director of Photography (ie cameraman), and his films all display outstanding technical craft and expertise. The jump cut/collage editing style that his movies are known for was developed in part with major occultist Donald Cammell.
Don't Look Now is an almost unbearable film about loss, about chasing a dream which is finally revealed as nightmare.
The clip below is the climax of the film - it does contain the ending, and that is precisely what I'm going to discuss. So, if you haven't seen the movie and may want to watch it in its entirety, don't read on.
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Roeg is meticulous, a visual perfectionist.
So, when the lost child revealed as vicious dwarf - the dream turned nightmare - slashes Donald Sutherland, why does the blood flowing out in Sutherland's death throes look like red paint?
Indeed, it clearly is vibrant red paint.
Roeg could easily have used more realistic blood. This is 1973. Indeed, as a visual obsessive, he could even have used real animal blood for the scene.
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Most magick, especially the banal sort, is designed to divert and obscure.
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EDIT: 22/1/10 for removal of old, no longer functioning, YouTube link and addition of new YouTube links:
See the eternal diabolic blood on the slide from around 25 seconds and again at 3 minutes here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYICwstBwnM
And the death blood here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-J9z5cJEGc
A dodgy prop?
Or a diabolic message?
The great movie director Nicholas Roeg was a former Director of Photography (ie cameraman), and his films all display outstanding technical craft and expertise. The jump cut/collage editing style that his movies are known for was developed in part with major occultist Donald Cammell.
Don't Look Now is an almost unbearable film about loss, about chasing a dream which is finally revealed as nightmare.
The clip below is the climax of the film - it does contain the ending, and that is precisely what I'm going to discuss. So, if you haven't seen the movie and may want to watch it in its entirety, don't read on.
....................
Roeg is meticulous, a visual perfectionist.
So, when the lost child revealed as vicious dwarf - the dream turned nightmare - slashes Donald Sutherland, why does the blood flowing out in Sutherland's death throes look like red paint?
Indeed, it clearly is vibrant red paint.
Roeg could easily have used more realistic blood. This is 1973. Indeed, as a visual obsessive, he could even have used real animal blood for the scene.
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Most magick, especially the banal sort, is designed to divert and obscure.
-----------------------
EDIT: 22/1/10 for removal of old, no longer functioning, YouTube link and addition of new YouTube links:
See the eternal diabolic blood on the slide from around 25 seconds and again at 3 minutes here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYICwstBwnM
And the death blood here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-J9z5cJEGc
A dodgy prop?
Or a diabolic message?
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war