Have a look at the first two and a half minutes (including the famous backwards title sequence) of Robert Aldrich's KISS ME DEADLY. Out on Blu-ray and DVD now: www.criterion.c...
Love those little innovations - hardboiled detective style with those ultramodern design points like the car, the bachelor pad with auto answering machine, the 'backward' credits as if they were painted on the road for a driver to read... And even without saying anything, you can tell that's Cloris Leachman's panting....The unopenable glowing box, referenced in other later movies like Repo Man and Pulp Fiction...
The reverse credits and repressed 1950's US obsession with sexuality and everything else of artistic expression is an indication of artistic genius by Aldridge. This looks to be a typical is 1950's horror film to the censors and critics based on the atomic glow and finale explosion. Critiques never saw the artistic advocacy for open sexual expression which is indicated with the panting behind the backward scrolling credits. This film is an example of artistic existentialism, wherein the artist gets his message across in spite of the censors and critics. Props to Aldridge.
@@96CAMJ Not exactly subtle, is it? Especially when you sequence continues and it becomes clear (although in this case it is subtle) that she's naked under the trench coat.
Ironic that repression is bad on a societal level, yet inspires more intriguing artistic expressions that consciously avoid lapsing into archetypes/stereotypes.
Interesting thought, but he has always said he was inspired by the Flash Gordon series from a few decades earlier. ua-cam.com/video/qnOL8Fx3Tvc/v-deo.html
@@plasticweapon I've never seen the shorts, but I've seen everything else. "His whole career" is an exaggeration, but things in _Kiss Me Deadly_ like the bright lights strobing in the final scene, along with the entire mutated noir atmosphere, absolutely are reflected in _Mullholand Dr._ and _Inland Empire_ (which certainly are my two favorites of Lynch's films).
Love those little innovations - hardboiled detective style with those ultramodern design points like the car, the bachelor pad with auto answering machine, the 'backward' credits as if they were painted on the road for a driver to read... And even without saying anything, you can tell that's Cloris Leachman's panting....The unopenable glowing box, referenced in other later movies like Repo Man and Pulp Fiction...
I know
The glowing suitcase that appears later in the movie was referenced in Repo Man and Pulp Fiction.
"the briefcase scene in pulp fiction was inspired by kiss me deadly the briefcase scene
R.I.P. Ms. Leachman.
RIP Cloris Leachman
The reverse credits and repressed 1950's US obsession with sexuality and everything else of artistic expression is an indication of artistic genius by Aldridge. This looks to be a typical is 1950's horror film to the censors and critics based on the atomic glow and finale explosion. Critiques never saw the artistic advocacy for open sexual expression which is indicated with the panting behind the backward scrolling credits. This film is an example of artistic existentialism, wherein the artist gets his message across in spite of the censors and critics. Props to Aldridge.
Can you explain better? Are you saying that the moanings with the credits rolling is a sublte way of indicating sex?
@@96CAMJ Not exactly subtle, is it? Especially when you sequence continues and it becomes clear (although in this case it is subtle) that she's naked under the trench coat.
Ironic that repression is bad on a societal level, yet inspires more intriguing artistic expressions that consciously avoid lapsing into archetypes/stereotypes.
Such a young cloris leachman, & I wonder if this is where Geo. Lucas got his idea for star wars intro?
Interesting thought, but he has always said he was inspired by the Flash Gordon series from a few decades earlier. ua-cam.com/video/qnOL8Fx3Tvc/v-deo.html
Before Star Wars
Saw man Brought me
Classic!
The meaningful reversed title
Look familiar? Like the Star Wars opening credits?
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David Lynch is brilliant, but in many ways what he has done his whole career is riff on this movie.
Every piece of art is a riff on an existing thing
so, you haven't actually watched most of his movies?
@@plasticweapon I've never seen the shorts, but I've seen everything else. "His whole career" is an exaggeration, but things in _Kiss Me Deadly_ like the bright lights strobing in the final scene, along with the entire mutated noir atmosphere, absolutely are reflected in _Mullholand Dr._ and _Inland Empire_ (which certainly are my two favorites of Lynch's films).