VL-IV (15): Brave New World revisited, again

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Apr 15 14:46:53 CDT 2009


On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> How would the output of 24fps figure in Huxley's dystopia?

They would be picked out of the crowd and given a Ludovico treatment  
from yet another dystopia. Eventually one of that cluster would get an  
award for film editing/ cinematography. It would be used for ironic  
effect, like Sasha doing foley for "Triumph of the Will", G. Gordon  
Liddy's favorite movie:

	"If any one component of man ought to be exercised, cultivated
	and strengthened above all others, it is the will; and that must
	have one objective - to win." He used to take his kids to see Leni
	Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda movie 'The Triumph of the Will.'

In a way, that's what Hector is trying to do with Frenesi, get her to  
work on his own  "Triumph of the Will."




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