Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Childrens Television and Farenheit 451

Oh! Hello there. Do you remember watching the movie "Farenheit 451"? Like
many movies based on books, they added some stuff not in the book to make
up for the stuff in the book that doesn't make it to screen because its
cerebral not audiovisual. In this case they added the television show
where the audience is supposed to participate:

"We are having a party, who should we invite?"

"What should we eat?"

"What decorations should we have. "

"You are just fantastic!"

Except that the director and cinematographer made this about as sinister as
possible.

Welll.... I hate the way childrens television programs do that too.

"Too late or still too soon too soon to make lots of bad love and there's no time for sorrow. Run around, run around with a hole in your head 'til tomorrow."
-----They Might Be Giants