New Ballard Movie

[opaloka]

Can't find another thread about this, so for anyone that doesn't know:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462335/

Although I don't know if the high rise apartment building is still a symbol for much in America (we build sprawl and roads). Might still be in Britain and France? At any rate it should be a good movie - I've only ever seen Cube directed by Natali but I love that film.

[voilodian ghagnasdiak]

I would only wish that this were the theme song for the movie.

High Rise


Flat block
Of two dimensions
Neon totem pole to the sky
Keeping scores of people stacked up so high Above the ground
But all they can hear is the sound
Of the wind in the antennae
It's a human zoo
A suicide machine

High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block

Childhood
Of concrete cube shaped
A flypaper stuck with human life
Caged up rage
Swarming all the time
Tear out the telephones
Rip up the pages of directories
And wreck all these
High speed lifts and elevators
Be a sabotage rebel without a cause

High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block

Starfish
Of human blood shape
Tentacles of human gore
Spread out on the pavement from the 99th floor Well somebody said that he jumped
But we know he was pushed
He was just like you might have been
On the 99th floor of a suicide machine

High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
Living in a high rise
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block

Robert Calvert

[Mikey_C]

"High Rise" was also the inspiration for Judge Dredd's Megacity 1. Let's hope that this will bury memories of the ghastly film of that!

[opaloka]

Wasnt that Stalone?

I was sort of hoping for some Hawkwind tunes in the Elric movie. But music is subject to so much fashion, even more than movies, so I'm not holding my breath.

[saichan]

Ballard briefly discusses the proposed high rise film (and cube) in this interview: http://www.ballardian.com/rattling-o...lard-interview

and there's more news about the film here: http://www.ballardian.com/vincenzo-n...rect-high-rise