tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post5388796066169963416..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: Millennium ActressMichael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-8015355537232077342014-08-16T19:39:30.569-07:002014-08-16T19:39:30.569-07:00Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead? Or Rosencr...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead? Or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead?<br /><br />Purple Rose of Cairo is the closest other film I can think of.Ken Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440837287933536370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-30685210011679985002014-07-25T16:11:41.165-07:002014-07-25T16:11:41.165-07:00[1] Well, arguably --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...[1] Well, arguably --<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World,_Part_I<br /><br />-- wherein Mel Brooks got to recycle many of his 2,000-year-old man jokes.<br /><br />(I note Mr. Brooks continues to work at age 88 and in this year's MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN, he's the voice of Albert Einstein.)<br /><br />But that's not quite what you meant, is it? <br /><br /><br />[2] The device you're talking about has been used a lot in theater, with one actor performing different roles (often an everyman role)in different periods, and so you'd expect it to have transferred over to live-action cinema at some point.<br /><br />But the only thing that immediately comes to my mind along those lines is Michael Powell's & Emeric Pressburger's TALES OF HOFFMAN 1951)and the BBC's BLACK ADDER series. <br /><br />And those aren't exactly what you meant either.<br /><br />[3] Still, there's got be something out there that does it. It's too obvious a device.Mark Pontinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11988614518618495319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-57058335409542725572014-07-24T09:33:13.128-07:002014-07-24T09:33:13.128-07:00The fanboys don't just see the flashbacks, the...The fanboys don't just see the flashbacks, they participate in them. Knowing what they do in the present-time frame.<br />Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-46952349957924799092014-07-24T09:05:08.340-07:002014-07-24T09:05:08.340-07:00Gods and Monsters, with Ian McKellen and Brendan F...Gods and Monsters, with Ian McKellen and Brendan Fraser. McKellen is playing James Whale, an elderly retired director; Fraser is Clayton Boone, his gardener. The film is about their odd, unbalanced, awkward relationship, but when Whale is reminiscing, the story is told in flashbacks.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18401467867140198801noreply@blogger.com