Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film These Are The Damned. The sequence ends with Daria driving out of frame; the camera lingers, tracking into the Bar window and setiling elegautly on a stunning image of fossilized American Past, Daria has passed-by two extremes of living death, and approaches the partial regeneration of the desert scenes...
...wrong with the addition of Open Theatre couples miming sex, a curious semiclothed series of tongue exercises and reptilian advances, sort of mutually-indulged masterbation. Tone is destroyed more than central focus and Antonioni is forced to cut quickly-Mark and Daria after fucking turned chalk-white like the desert away from his logical climactic image earth-to a more conventional wide-angle pull-back of dozens of lovers dotting the landscape. Antonioni cuts to three panoramic long shots of desert terrain. The third shows: Mark and Daria in the distance. Before MGM removed it from the prints, Mark said...
...wisely) resembles Eclipse more than Blow-Up. Probably fearful of juggling both American Youth and radical advances in construction and style, Antonioni returns to a familiar formula: the people are cipher-like, of less consequence to the film than Hemmings in Blow-Up or Monica Vitti in Red Desert. and are often unsecing guidse through elusive situations in abstract environments. Also, we can parallel the student strike footage with the stock market scene in Eclipse: like the earlier film, Zabriskie Point balances personal travelogue with formally spectacular set pieces. The scenes of Daria driving through the desert...
...growth of the empire has blunted the terrible purpose. The Fremen have grown used to the luxuries of empire and have moved from the open desert to the towns and begun to forget the cautions which the desert taught them. They have begun to waste water, formerly the worst sin in desert society...
...main character of the first book is the planet Arrakis, a mystifying desert waste which has never been fully mapped or understood by those who call themselves its rulers. The planet's true owners, the Fremen, are a tribe who exist in total secrecy on the face of the desert. Their terrible purpose-to change the planet's ecology totally and transform it into a fertile land-is the force which transforms Paul Atreides into Muad'dib, a semidivine military leader who eventually topples the Emperor and becomes master of the Galaxy. Melange-an addictive spice grown only on Arrakis...