From Alex Reynolds Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 07:00
From Alex Reynolds Sent Tue, Apr 20th 1999, 07:00
watched pi a few weekends ago with my fifteen-year old brother. he liked the choice of music, but didn't like much else about the film, calling it weird, silly, pretentious. myself, i liked it better the first time around. watching it again, i got the feeling i was in the standard-grade independent film festival, where the artiste/director repeatedly cuts to odd-angle, poorly-lit shots and grainy film to divert your attention from the overacting. even with the music, the atmosphere was lost on videotape. now whenever i drive my brother anywhere and i'm playing any electronic music in the car, he puts his index finger to his temple and starts making drilling noises. it's embarassing. it's irritating. i get concerned when my sibling comes back from watching 'the matrix' and says he now likes techno, having heard propellerheads, rob zombie, and prodigy. i also feel like exercising elder-monkey privileges and smacking him upside the head. the youth of today starve for movie soundtracks with quality electronic music -- idm needs better role models in the cinematic community. 'pi' is an okay flick, but i prefer 'clockwork orange' as electronic music's ambassador to the silver screen. with a kubrick piece, at least the pretension and elitism can be rationalized. where is our generation's wendy carlos? __________________________________________________________________________ Alex Reynolds E xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxx.xxx UPenn : SAS Computing : Biology Dist Support V +1 215 573 2818 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/biology/ F +1 215 898 8780 'The central message of Buddhism is not "every man for himself"!' -- Wanda