@RUTGERS.ARPA,@USC-ECL.ARPA:BURHANS@ECLD (04/09/85)
From: Jackie <Burhans%ECLD@ECLA> The movie A Boy and His Dog was playing in my neighborhood this weekend so, after hearing so much about it here on the net, I decided to go see it. Now, if you people had TOLD me I would get to see my favorite Miami vice, Sonny Crockett--well I would have gone to see this long ago. Seriously, I thought it was a well-done, fast-paced little flick true to the Ellison ironical mode. This movie, I might add, "watched" very much like a short story (fast pace, clever dialogue, ends with a twist...). If any of you personally know any writers you may recognize the following phenomena: you know the person and what they sound like and you read one of their publised works--be it a book, magazine or newspaper article AND you find yourself reading it "in their voice." That is, you "hear" the story in their voice, with their inflections and intonations. Well, I found myself experiencing the opposite of this with this movie. I don't know Harlan Ellison--but I have read one of his short stories (Repent, Harlequin...which I really enjoyed!) and many of his columns for the L.A.Weekly and I have even seen a videotaped interview with himself. Maybe its just that he has a very recognizable style... Anyway, this movie was in a double-feature with Repo-man, (I guess R-M doesn't really qualify as SF, but it was how shall we say, intense (and filmed in my neighborhood!)). A real fun evening! -------