More glam rock cops - they appear first at 2.41
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1. First thing I thought of was the holographic-triangle-stickered, leather-fascist 'BIM police' in The Apple
ReplyDelete2. That Manson usage has all sorts of retrospective irony
Double checked and you've covered that film before (http://shockandawesimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2020/06/rotten-apple.html), but you missed out on another level of its weirdness - while the baseline is a weirdly-antisemetic-for-Israel depiction of Biblically anointed heterosexuality under threat, the director Menahem Golan (of Cannon and Golan-Globus fame) added an entirely different level to it. From Fil Comment's Nick Pinkerton in 2014 (https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/bombast-the-apple-after-the-fall-menahem-golan-globus/):
Delete'The Apple presents itself as a Rockist, “Burn Down the Discos” tract, but despite the fact that the hippies are the film’s ostensible good guys, Golan is able to summon up very little interest in them, and spends as little time in their patchouli-scented company as possible, preferring whenever he can to film transvestites swanning about and drinking out of huge triangular tumblers. Golan cannot locate the spiritual glory in resistance or opting out, as François Truffaut does when he leads Oskar Werner’s Guy Montag to the “book people” in his Fahrenheit 451 (66); what Golan conveys instead is that, to paraphrase Pauline Kael on Fellini Satyricon, he thinks it’s a ball to be a pagan. Far more than Gilmour and Stewart’s Alfie or Bibi, the film’s star performance is Sheybal’s as Boogalow. One exchange in the contract-signing scene even suggests that Golan regards Boogalow as a sort of alter ego. “Boog is already selling your first album,” Shake tells Bibi. When she protests that she and Alfie “haven’t even made it yet,” his response is, “First you sell it, then you make it”—this is a wink-wink reference to Cannon’s own production line technique, which relied heavily on hustle and pre-sales to keep the conveyor belt running smoothly.'
i can't remember if I watched The Apple all the way through. It's a very odd film.
DeleteThere's probably some other dystopian s.f. films with "glam rock cops" in so far as the police uniforms probably look quite kinkily stylized.
Like, I wouldn't say the firemen in Fahrenheit 451 look "glam rock" but they do look a bit Devo.
DeleteI had suspected you hadn't seen much of it, and I completely understand - even for someone who enjoys shitty movies, it's a lot
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