derrick@mcc-db.UUCP (Dwayne Derrick) (04/02/85)
I just watched the remake of: "The invasion of the body snatchers". The questionis, Why did ex-vulcan Nemoy wear that bowling glove throughout the movie? Was it for medical reasons? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!! If the above question doesn't make sense, you didn't watch close enough. Post results directly to the net, I won't lie and say, "I'll post the results". I'm lazy, but I'm honest..
leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (04/04/85)
>I just watched the remake of: "The invasion of the body >snatchers". The questionis, Why did ex-vulcan Nemoy wear >that bowling glove throughout the movie? Was it for medical >reasons? > The whole film (rather brilliantly, I think) has people acting in vaguely eccentric ways. This creates a sort of camouflage where you cannot tell for a character if he is acting strangely because that is just what humans do -- vary from the norn in subtle ways -- or if he had been taken over and is just trying to pretend to be human. You have people in mud baths -- is that sinister or not -- people who are particularly argumentative -- could that be a sign of having been taken over? The psychologist seems to like to wear a bowling glove all the time -- maybe he has an odd attachment to it, maybe he thinks it feels comfortable to wear, maybe a pod-person thinks that is normal for humans. Your allies suddenly start to claim that ancient astronauts took over South America is an established fact. Are they crazy? Are you? We see continual shots of the weird-looking Transamerica Building. Besides the inside joke that United Artists is owned by Transamerica, it sure doesn't look like the buildings we grew up with. Is there something sinister and alien about it? Is it just an architect's creative idea or is this weird shape somehow sinister? And even if it is just creativity, can we tell who is just being creative from who is trying to pass for human and not quite making it. The film is set in San Francisco where people feel less inhibited about being strange than in just about any other city I know. Take a look at INVADERS FROM MARS and you see two kinds of people. People who act normal and people who have been taken over (and have lost their ability to act). You can tell all too easily who is human, and who isn't any more. Now look at the remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. Everybody is a little weird. And they are weird in different ways. Our society has come to accept and tolerate eccentricity, and that is good. But it also means that with all these varients from what we call normal behaviour, the characters in INVASION haven't a clue as to what human is any more so they can't recognize when someone isn't. That's why I am one of the few people who actually prefers the remake to the original. I never got the feeling of paranoia from the first film that it was aiming for, but the remake is different and, I think, much better. It is a real exercise in paranoia far more than the first film. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper