Word: rockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conventional expectations is, of course, Forsyth's specialty. If one sometimes wishes Forsyth could more often keep his eye on the comic point, it is also true that he finds his best material out there on the periphery, at the edge of the frame. What is a punk rocker doing in the rural highlands? Why does that motorbiker keep burp-burping through the action without explaining himself? Forsyth isn't telling. He's just laughing to himself, a shy, shrewd film maker worth bending near so you can hear what he has to say amidst the contemporary...
Some of the "looks" featured in the calendar include "punk rocker," "California Golden Girl," "preppy," and "athletic female jock" (pictured at right...
...trigger a whole manger scene--complete with music, lights, hay, and even a flying angel--on one side of the room. A lifesize model child sleeps in a bed in the middle of one room, and in another corner, the likeness of Santa himself snoozes in his rocker...
Some of these rockers simply rework traditional, time-tested material. Meat-loaf, for example, garnered high critical honors for his moving rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Neil Young's version of "Silent Night"--complete with a gut-wrenching, distorted guitar solo--also hit the mark, proving that this hard-bitten rocker has a little bit of holiday cheer...
This standard-issue male sex fantasy is rudely interrupted. A female punk rocker materializes, shouting obscenities and menacing Miles with her electric guitar. She is outraged by the doctor-nurse scene, convinced that Miles has written it to degrade women: "Ever since I got into serious liberation, you been takin' the mickey. I got your number, mate. You're the original pig. Numero Uno." Despite the leather gear, dyed hair and garish makeup, Miles recognizes this apparition as an old, inspiring friend. She is Erato, the classical Muse of lyric poetry and, by historical default, of fiction...