Well in this case the novel was first. But when you are married to Fritz Lang it makes it easier to get a movie made out of it.
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Ah! Random trivia I just remembered! Giorgio Moroderâs version of Metropolis is available on Hoopla. If youâre an absolute purist stick with the most recent Kino version, but Iâve heard good things about Moroderâs as an interesting slice of pop culture weirdness. (I remember thinking it seemed odd back in â84.)
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It was my first theater screening. It is good and does have some restored footage at the time. Definitely worth a watch and the music is fun. In a similar theme at SIFF more than a few years ago now I went to a screening of The Thief Of Bagdad which had an ELO soundtrack as put together by Shadoe Stevens which actually worked but I am biased as ELO is a guilty pleasure band for me.
But yes the Kino release is it. I saw that in a theater as well and they have found even more footage since I got my DVD copy of that release.
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Me listening to ELO:
First song or two: âhey, this is pretty cool!â
Midway through the album: âthis is alright, but I prefer XTCâ
At the end of the album: âIâm more of a Ramones fanâ
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Currently reading NK Jemisinâs Broken Earth trilogy⊠on book one, The Fifth Season:
Great world building!
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His version is good. I have seen it.
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Started listening to audiobooks to help me focus at work.
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older is amazing. Anika Noni Rose is a fantastic narrator, and Older has a way of sucking you into the world.
Yes, audiobooks count as reading. Itâs not the same structure as a podcast. Text was originally meant to be read aloud â silent reading is a relatively new invention.
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I just finished Record of a Spaceborn Few yesterday, right on the tail of A Closed and Common Orbit. I read The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet a while back. I love all of them, and that theyâre very different books despite sharing a setting.
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Agreed. Looking forward to whatever comes next.
I will read and/or listen to absolutely anything by Daniel José Older. And, Anika Noni Rose really did an amazing job as narrator, her Spanglish really hit for me.
His Bone Street Rumba books, for grown ups, are similarly good, just with a bit more on the adult (sexy but not porny) aspects of adult lives, while dealing with all manner of supernatural beings, of course.
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I got started on him with the Bone Street Rumba series.
I am even at some point willing to read his Star Wars⊠and I donât read Star Wars.
Lots of people can write. He makes words get up and dance.
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Just reading that synopsis⊠Another freaking doomsday device? I donât think Iâd read another Star Wars doomsday plot if it were written by Terry Pratchett.
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Right? At most it would be a c-plot in a Pratchett story. Which is the proper place for war shit.
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With DJ Older? I would still give it a shot.
It may be a doomsday device but it also wonât be white male saviour bullshit.
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And Threepio would be the protagonist. And youâd have Jedi with missing limbs from mistakes during lightsaber training.
âŠCome to think of it, maybe I would like to read a Pratchett Star Wars doomsday plot.
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Why arenât there more Jedi with missing limbs, period? Itâs made several light sabre fight scenes difficult to watch for me because it seriously looks like someone should have lost at least a finger.
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Advanced tissue regeneration technology.
Iâm guessing.
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Youâd think, but Luke got a robot hand.
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Advanced tissue regeneration technology.
Master Luke âLeftyâ Skywalker and his Bionic hand ask you to reconsider this line of thought.
Or was the Rebellion Insurance plan (Blue Cross\Blue Starbird of Alderaan) not able to cover such regeneration after their home office turned into a small cloud of debris?
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The cheaper choice, definitely.
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