Comments on: Quote of the Day: My bloody head http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/quote-of-the-day-my-bloody-head/ david cairns Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/quote-of-the-day-my-bloody-head/#comment-2971 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:58:33 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=803#comment-2971 All of which makes the action stuff in Figures all the more hair-raising. I’m amazed nobody was killed, after all the TV and movies that use helicopters in crazy ways, I’ve never seen anything like this.

Doesn’t make it a great film, but David Caute’s Loesy book largely neglects the visual aspect in discussing it. The visuals are the strong point.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/quote-of-the-day-my-bloody-head/#comment-2969 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:18:29 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=803#comment-2969 And of course we all remember what happened to Vic Morrow and those Vietnamese children on Twilight Zone: The Movie.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/quote-of-the-day-my-bloody-head/#comment-2968 Wed, 14 May 2008 17:52:53 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=803#comment-2968 They’re a powerful image of surveillance and aggression. As someone with good reason to fear the state, Losey may well have had a bit of a phobic attitude to whirlybirds. Figures in a Landscape casts them as the main antagonist in a way that relates to The Damned but is even stronger. They’re like the truck in Spielberg’s Duel.

Brice Robinson says his DOP Conrad Hall saved him from walking into a rotor blade while shooting Jennifer Eight. “I had a director do that once — he took two steps and fell down as mince.”

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