Heartland

Everyone gets that thing where you watch a film or you 'get' a book, and I've just had mine with Apocalypse Now.
I've seen it a few times, but I only actually watched it tonight, properly, and understood why everyone raves about it.

Any heartlandanders had the same thing, whether its a film or a song or book?

book - Catch 22

band - the birthday party (but I'm glad I did!)

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:book - Catch 22

band - the birthday party (but I'm glad I did!)

Book, I haven't read it, but I will.
Band, I get them!

I have read too many books
I have seen too many films
I have not dreamt enough

culprit wrote:and I've just had mine with Apocalypse Now

Perhaps you can explain it to me then. I even read Conrad's book afterwards. Still makes no sense. I thought that was the point.

culprit wrote:Any heartlandanders had the same thing, whether its a film or a song or book?

The Bible in my case.

Foghorn Leghorn

Francis wrote:

culprit wrote:and I've just had mine with Apocalypse Now

Perhaps you can explain it to me then. I even read Conrad's book afterwards. Still makes no sense. I thought that was the point.

Both, book and movie illustrate the confrontation with the basic issues of the modern human existence.
The outer travel to the 'heart of darkness' (war in one case, colonialism in the other) symbolizes the travel to the evil core of ones inner self. Through the encounter with the perverted and innermost hollow idealist Kurtz, the hero turns into a sceptical moralist (at least in the book ). Thus, Kurtz represents the own evil inner self of the hero (us all?).
Does this make more sense now?

Just the other day on the bus, I suddenly got the Dear Doktor reference to Fat Bob.

well I just got Doom3 for XBox so tonight is gonna be 4 for all meat pizza, a few bottles of Merrydown and some blood and guts splattering everywhere

i never did and never will get probability

It's not that long ago I worked out that Herr Flick's name in 'Allo 'Allo referred to his hairstyle...

some drugs and a video to watch

Mrs. Snowey wrote:It's not that long ago I worked out that Herr Flick's name in 'Allo 'Allo referred to his hairstyle...

Brilliant! I never got that!

Mind you, I was 30 before I made the connection between Rice Krispies and the stuff you get with a curry. Rice. It just didn't sit as a breakfast thing.


Just me then?

ruffers wrote:Mind you, I was 30 before I made the connection between Rice Krispies and the stuff you get with a curry. Rice. It just didn't sit as a breakfast thing.

I may have some bad news to break to you about Corn Flakes...

Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes!

the symbolism involved in the slaughtering of the sacrificial cow to the music of the doors 'the end' has to be one of the best things of all time.




i've often wondered, did willard return home, or become the 'next' kurtz

To Kill The King pib, and I believe the weighty tome that is 'The Golden Bough' has some clues...
I still think the 'beheaded' cow at the end looks like its made out of chewing gum

James Blast wrote:To Kill The King pib, and I believe the weighty tome that is 'The Golden Bough' has some clues...
I still think the 'beheaded' cow at the end looks like its made out of chewing gum

thx.

so does the weighy tome that is the bible

not just, but last year, yeah i know i'm slow... i got the point of floodland

four songs each side, each to do with the four elements earth, water, fire and air and this in turn links to the primary ideas of the waste land

Jesus if you're slow I must be going backwards!

Hey maybe Torch and Colours are for the fifth element then?

smiscandlon wrote:

ruffers wrote:Mind you, I was 30 before I made the connection between Rice Krispies and the stuff you get with a curry. Rice. It just didn't sit as a breakfast thing.

I may have some bad news to break to you about Corn Flakes...

Nope, I knew that one. And Shredded Wheat. But rice? eugh.

Took me a while to work out where Q8 petrol came from too.

markfiend wrote:Jesus if you're slow I must be going backwards!

Hey maybe Torch and Colours are for the fifth element then?

Hold on.. wasn't Torch on the a-side of the cassette version? So maybe IT was the fire song. Or perhaps the four elements combined and formed one new one, the ultimate element, represented by Torch being one of the best songs (and Colours, quite rightly, being nowhere to be seen).



How obvious is it that I've just woken up?

Dark wrote:Hold on.. wasn't Torch on the a-side of the cassette version?

It was indeed. It was the fifth track though.

Dark wrote: So maybe IT was the fire song. Or perhaps the four elements combined and formed one new one, the ultimate element,

The fifth element

Dark wrote: represented by Torch being one of the best songs (and Colours, quite rightly, being nowhere to be seen).



How obvious is it that I've just woken up?

What have you got against Colours?

Argh, it's as metaphysical as the Lyrics section!