Sheet Music For Fireflies By Ron Pope

The fish that saved Pittsburgh is the original title of this amazing no less amazing and mythic film 1979. What had hitherto never heard of it? Dude, you're not fond of basketball, right? Music Basket was little more than an urban legend amongst the young who, in the early eighties, at the height of the first boom basquetbolistico in Spain, we jumped after the ball on any pitch street. Those were the days of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, the mythical duels Lakers vs. Celtics ... and this movie was part of it all.

mythomania apart, we stand before a typical and topical sports comedy. Julius Erving, the legendary Dr. J, big star the basket during the decades of 70 and 80, plays Moses Guthrie, the worst franchise championship team. A random comment of his about his evil star, give one of the key team ball boy on the poor progress of the same: players are not astrologically compatible. The boy Moses convince you first, then the team owner to redo the same players astrologically compatible with Moses. Players must be all the zodiac sign Pisces.

said and done, then given a free transfer to the rest of the squad and, under the supervision of astrology, are called screening tests for applicants to join the team, which is have all sorts of quirky characters. The stars will decide which are the rarest of the rare, two identical twins, a crazy Indian, a deaf gamer magic, a reverend who abandons his flock in the middle of Mass to take the exams, a Muslim who always plays with his Bedouin scarf on his head, a local radio DJ, a veteran of Vietnam's crazy ... elected to the most bizarre team of the league: the Pittsburgh Pisces .

Image: Pittsburgh Pisces in the locker room, listening to the advice of the coaching staff.

Special mention also the coaching staff: a trainer that is not removed at any time the cigarette from his mouth, the coach who has no idea what that is basketball, and team owner who chose because passed through there, and above all, the official astrology, Mona mondieu. The quirky characters risión provoke their adversaries by jumping onto the field for the first time ... until the ball is in motion.

Let us be clear: this is a movie made by basketball fans for fans of basketball, so most of the footage is devoted to fantasy play: mates on his back, biting passes against board dribbling style paraphernalia globetrotters ... any game classic All Stars. Pisces revolutionize the championship, and with their precious game were planted in the finals, which will face the team of Los Angeles, which represents the majority of players dropped to build the new team, which come with a spirit of revenge. And if this were not enough, more problems: the final will compete in an unusual astral conjunction, a conjunction disastrous for those born under the sign of Pisces. And the astrology of the team has gone in such a decisive moment. Can Pisces overcome such adversity and win the championship? If you must know, you have to watch the movie.

Some highlights:

The decoration of the court in which to play the final. Authentic monument to kitsch seventies.

The soundtrack, brimming with funky seventies. To highlight the number of The Sylvers at halftime of the final.

The Los Angeles team, which actually is made up of leading players from Los Angeles Lakers at the time, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the head.

The various NBA players of the era, appearing throughout the movie make cameos.

Finally, a movie to spend time entertaining, without any pretensions. About especially if you like that basketball.

PS This article was originally written by 25 February, and fished for publication on this blog by 27 February, by a writer born on March 2. That does not say that we are not in sync with the plot of the movie.

article originally published on the site Mondofriki.com, on 25-02-2007

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Music Invasion the Body Snatchers

You will be the next ...




psychiatric manuals define Capgras syndrome as a disorder psychiatric in which the affected person believes that an acquaintance has been replaced by an identical double of everything. Good horror movie buff, upon hearing this description of a medical condition existing in reality, certainly not able to avoid a chill in his mind while the image is drawn in black and white, a giant bean pod playing a starring role in one of the most disturbing films of the genre. As you no doubt have guessed from the moment you start talking about double, let's talk about Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

As usual, here playing warn that we uncover details of the plot of the film.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956 directed by Don Siegel is based on a serialized novel written by Jack Finney in 1954, The Body Snatchers. Kevin McCarthy stars as Dr. Miles Bennell, a family physician in Santa Mira, a small town in California, a typical provincial place where nothing ever happens like that both the perpetrators of the horror genre. Fresh from a conference, Dr. Bennell will find a barrage of cases of people who seem to suffer from the condition that I highlighted at the beginning. In the small town also seems to float a foreign environment. However, it gives more importance, merely to divert these patients to a psychiatrist confidence. So the film takes place without too much upheaval, until you see the corpse. His face was expressionless

with fingerprints erased, the foreign body is found in the house of a friend of the doctor, and marks a turning point in the film. From its appearance, the tension will increase, especially given that the body is revived, and later the same doctor is another of these bodies in the basement of the house of his former girlfriend. It seems that the action breaks loose. But soon the figure of the psychiatrist to bring order. Everything has been an episode of hysteria. There was nothing particularly odd in the first corpse, and as the second, only existed in the minds of witnesses. With daylight, indeed, everything seems back to normal, and even patients affected by the strange syndrome begin to recover. But all is apparently clear. You are about to go on stage one of the protagonists, surely the most memorable icon of this movie: giant seed pods.

A round of applause for our guest of honor, please.

Indeed, when the doctor and his friends are celebrating what looks like to their problems with a very American barbecue in the garden, the doctor, while looking for something to kerosene to light the barbecue rebel for such a sin against the palate of its guests, the doctor is definitely a creditor of the just punishment of being assassinated and replaced by a double-discover the terrifying giant vegetables, and all are witnesses to how they sprout mysterious corpses. The doctor tries to give the warning, but all their efforts do not go beyond the operator of the telephone. That's when the story reveals that the double is not a paranoid delusion, but a frightening reality, and that these mysterious beings control the city.

From this is when the film overflows with an apotheosis of pure paranoia. No one is legit. Everyone can be part of the conspiracy. The characters are driven to a constant flight, as they witness and the double came out of the plant are preparing to invade the surrounding villages. In addition, they must struggle against sleep, it is precisely for this when copies emerged from the pods copied the memory of their victims and live. In the end, only the doctor will be pursued by all the people. The movie should end with the doctor Benell in middle of the highway, shouting "you will be next" to drivers who refused to stop, but this ending was too pessimistic for the production, which imposed a more hopeful end, which shows a fortuitous accident that the story that has received raving mad as the police have picked up in the middle of the highway was real and can occur at the alarm time.


Final spoiler.

Many people noted as a defect of this film that at no time explaining how phishers get rid of the original once the copy is completed. But for me this is not a failure but a success of the film. Trying to explain this could divert the psychological tension of the film to a gruesome scene and certainly not credible. And basically, what we care if the double break down, eat or simply buried in the garden to their victims? It is enough that the discreetly out of the way and continue with the story.

Undoubtedly the highlight of this movie is the feeling, the aura of pure paranoia that envelops the viewer. An impression that is far from being an innocent amusement. Do not forget that this film was released in 1956 and the McCarthyism , although gradually declining, was still in the memory. Thus, it is difficult to tell exactly double those devoid of emotion, ready to conquer first the city and then the world, are an obvious metaphor of the fifth column under the command of Moscow, brainwashed, to be discovered in time, before you turn into something inhuman. If you have to be alert, suspicious of your neighbors, your relatives ... could be zombies in the service of Red Power. Again, the Communists have come from outer space to tear a chill.

This movie has been made so far three remakes , a very decent 1977, by Philip Kauffman , another forgettable in 1993, by Abel Ferrara , and more Recent 2007, by Oliver Hirschbiegel . But it is certainly original, with its black and white and vegetable giant papier-mache, which has left a deeper impression on the fans of the genre. A movie that does not pass the time, and that even today, still inspire awe.

Just for today. I hope you have fun, and remember, always watch your neighbors. May not be what they seem ...

This article was originally written for the site on 28-03-2007 Mondofriki.com, and revised and updated with new data for publication on this blog

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Vampirella (film) War Games

There are moments in life where you feel the irrepressible temptation of getting into front and occiput a film whose effect on one's health is only comparable to a stab in the hypothalamus. Authentic blunders that make you think that there are directors who should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Like this:

Vampirella comic mythical character, famous for being the superhero that more beer in these comics taught 70 to 80, is destroyed in this bizarre production of the Series B King , Roger Corman, directed by Jim Wynorski in 1996 . A film so tacky it makes your side look Xanadu Watch Kane. Before continue, I must say that I was wrong when I put 1996. Yes, I know that seems to be 1969, but no. This well written, I swear.

Synopsis:

We are on the planet Drakulon (original name, I do not deny) for thirty centuries. This planet is that rivers run a kind of substitute for human blood, which feed its inhabitants, all vampires, but peaceful. But a lousy criminal called, certainly not adivinaríais ever, Vlad, prefers sucking the blood from the jugular of his countrymen. At the time of going to trial, his friends presented at trial and charged to the entire court, presided over by the father of the protagonist (Talisa Soto ) and give the pyro in a spaceship that takes them to Earth for 30 centuries.

At this point the film jumps back in time to something that is supposed to be our immediate future, to introduce a kind of SWAT embroidered with crucifixes in their caps that are supposed to be a secret organization Slayer-in-command of the grandson of Dr. Van Helsing (Richard Joseph Paul ). The attack Vampire Slayer sort of lashing Mexican ranch where one of the friends of Vlad, that in the meantime has become Count Dracula monkey dressed in a striking fabric that looks like a plastic raincoat quite a hundred, and I have to tell them where he hides the count.

Currently Vampirella, who came behind Vlad, but technical problems had to do a stop of 30 centuries of anything on Mars, appears in what surely is the most tragicomic film . All that we adolescence during the 80 know how was the costume of this character, right? Well, for those who do not know, here's a sample.

What makes you horny? Well, in this movie ... yes.

At this point we must ask a question. Who was in charge of costume design in this film? Is the cousin Escriva eunuch? Looking for that photo I swear I've seen pictures of strange convention where more tailored pibas wore costumes and morbidity twice that ... thing?. Hell, we knew that the movie was crappy (Roger Corman expected no less) but it was supposed to compensate seeing plenty of chicha. But apart from a couple of appearances cortitos topless in one of the bad, nothing. But I can not go yet, we still have a lot of laughter to us.

Well, Vampirella and who does not like things he learns that Vlad, Count Dracula himself, this undercover ... as a singer in Las Vegas tacky. Roger Daltry invaluable in the role of the Count. Tears fall from the pure me laugh every time I think about it. Vampirella is presented in its action, it Camela, takes him to a quiet place, but when going to load, you see the crucifix on the cap and lashing them both. But when I brought to his headquarters, Vlad hypnotizes the driver of the van where they are, causing them to stick a pinnace, and escapes. Van Helsing junior takes to throw a pass at a Vampirella meantime.

Later the vampires kidnap the grandson of Van Helsing, and propose a change to the vampire that the crucifix on the cap are a prisoner. Vampirella must deliver the prisoner exchange, but the vampires give the prayer card scam and pyran. Vampirella are followed up by the Mexican ranch, where she's caught and locked in a dungeon with Van Helsing, after removing a serum that takes and takes as a substitute for blood. Without serum, Vampirella can not control his thirst for blood and blood sucking him Van Helsing, he hopes Vlad. To avoid this, Vampirella is chained with shackles to the wall and when you begin to notice the blood lust begins to writhe and scream. It is assumed that this scene is there to make morbidity, but the truth is that if you start out loud, is that you are not human. The great grandson of Van Helsing lets you suck a little blood (arm, sends eggs) to retrieve the forces, and escape. Then come the hats of the crucifix and together they manage to avoid the evil Vlad plan to darken the sky with a few satellites that release carbon, that vampires can hunt happily without fear of the sun. In the final fight, Vlad falls by lightning while fighting with Vampirella, and plunges on fire by a dam.

End of spoiler

strengths of this film:

special effects: the transformation the vampire bat is ... well, no words. The vampire becomes a shadow silhouette painted marker on the frame, it is growing into a small spot that goes away on one side of the screen. With two balls! Why spend four guys in a rubber bat, when we spend that money on sniffing glue?

fight scenes. That art, my god, that art! These movements ... this girl has a black belt, at least. Well, the final fight is slightly Curran. But there is that the warrior is a double (not a double, no, a double, look, mind you)

sequence Drakulon the planet. I did not know that vampires come from a planet that seems an airport.

Finally, an entertainment that will certainly make fans of the character fitted in righteous anger, but everyone else we preemitirá throw us a few laughs.

This article was originally published in the 04/20/2007 Mondofriki.com site ... and no, I have not yet recovered from the shock that caused me the film.