04-10-2020, 09:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-10-2020, 10:24 PM by Drunk Monk.)
When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD (2017)
This is a 20 min short, an episode of Urban Myths, a Sky TV series that's been going for several years now. It's been repackaged for Showtime. For a single short, it was okay. Grant was known to have taken LSD 100+ times and rumor was that Leary was inspired by him. This postulated their meeting and dosing together while on break during the prodcution of North by Northwest. The trip is okay, but not really beyond the pale, almost. It's played out humorously, but there's so much more potential, and ultimately it comes off caricature. GoT factor 1 - Little Finger as Leary.
No sword fights. Mildly DOOM reccomended, really only for those psychedelized DOOMers, and only if they have 20 mins to kill.
The Dali and the Coooper (2018)
This is based on the creation of Dali's first hologram First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain. It's an actual hologram, made in '73 and currently housed in Figueres. It didn't stick out in my memory because that museum is so overwhelming, but I recall the room where it was and pondering it for a moment. This episode depicts Cooper's account fairly accurately. Cooper is well drawn. He's played by an actor that looks a lot like him, and as an extra surreal spin, Alice also plays himself in some scenes, but it's hard to tell which exactly. The Hippo radio station here plays his shows in the evening, and I've really grown to appreciate him. He's hilarious and insightful as a DJ, playing great classic rock with personal anecdotes and observations on the musicians. Dali was overdone, but Dali is always overdone. I've seen plenty of actual interview material with him, but this depiction made him more caricature, which is fair I suppose. Gala is also overdone as a controlling shrew, which she may well have been, but again, in what I've seen of her, she's got a class air to her. The ep unravels an interpretation of the hologram piece, shedding a little light upon it, or at least teasing the complexity behind Dali's work in general. It gave a potential answer to a mystery behind the piece - what happened to Alice's brain (it was a brain split by an eclair scuplture).
I enjoyed it. No sword fights. A hallucinogenic ending akin to the boat ride in the original Willy Wonka. Recommended for DOOM Dali fans.
This is a 20 min short, an episode of Urban Myths, a Sky TV series that's been going for several years now. It's been repackaged for Showtime. For a single short, it was okay. Grant was known to have taken LSD 100+ times and rumor was that Leary was inspired by him. This postulated their meeting and dosing together while on break during the prodcution of North by Northwest. The trip is okay, but not really beyond the pale, almost. It's played out humorously, but there's so much more potential, and ultimately it comes off caricature. GoT factor 1 - Little Finger as Leary.
No sword fights. Mildly DOOM reccomended, really only for those psychedelized DOOMers, and only if they have 20 mins to kill.
The Dali and the Coooper (2018)
This is based on the creation of Dali's first hologram First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain. It's an actual hologram, made in '73 and currently housed in Figueres. It didn't stick out in my memory because that museum is so overwhelming, but I recall the room where it was and pondering it for a moment. This episode depicts Cooper's account fairly accurately. Cooper is well drawn. He's played by an actor that looks a lot like him, and as an extra surreal spin, Alice also plays himself in some scenes, but it's hard to tell which exactly. The Hippo radio station here plays his shows in the evening, and I've really grown to appreciate him. He's hilarious and insightful as a DJ, playing great classic rock with personal anecdotes and observations on the musicians. Dali was overdone, but Dali is always overdone. I've seen plenty of actual interview material with him, but this depiction made him more caricature, which is fair I suppose. Gala is also overdone as a controlling shrew, which she may well have been, but again, in what I've seen of her, she's got a class air to her. The ep unravels an interpretation of the hologram piece, shedding a little light upon it, or at least teasing the complexity behind Dali's work in general. It gave a potential answer to a mystery behind the piece - what happened to Alice's brain (it was a brain split by an eclair scuplture).
I enjoyed it. No sword fights. A hallucinogenic ending akin to the boat ride in the original Willy Wonka. Recommended for DOOM Dali fans.
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