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Revolutionary Girl Utena, the Movie
06-08-2010, 08:31 AM
The Revolutionary Girl Utena movie is up on rightstuf's daily deals page today, and I was wondering if it was worth it. I've heard good things about Utena, but I think that was the tv series, not the movie. Any suggestions?
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Watch the series first.
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Agreed. That way, you'll only be somewhat lost by the movie's plot, rather than completely lost...
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Except for the car race.
There is no explaining the car race.
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Let me just share the opinions of two towering figures in anime fandom on the subject: Quote:As for "just a hint of strangeness" -- I take it you've not seen the Utena movie. I had acid trips that weren't that wacked. -- MegaZone
and Quote: It's all sort of a Victorian Love Story with Girls in a Theater-of-the-Absurd Twenty-First-Century Paris, which is fine if you're into that kind of thing. -- Gryphon, about the Utena movie, Eyrie website discussion groups, 8/6/2001
This is not to say it isn't good, mind you, it's just that... well, as Offsides, Peggy and I learned one evening almost a decade ago, you do not watch it and End of Evangelion both in one night. There's only so much bizarre and inscrutable symbolism and imagery the human mind can take in so short a period.
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My own summary of the Utena movie:
"Imagine watching the entire TV series. On fast-forward. While on some really rad LSD. Except that it's been cut down to fit on TV."
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it sounds like something kubrik should have directed, had they made a live-action version...
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"The prettiest acid trip I've ever seen."
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Ok. I'll wait to watch it until I've seen the main series. Should I order it today though? It's only about $12 today instead of 20.
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Valles Wrote:"The prettiest acid trip I've ever seen." At this point, I feel obliged to throw in something about acid I recently read:
Quote:"Somebody gave me some acid once at Glastonbury, that was a mistake,
dear Lord. You see, what they don't tell you about acid - and who are
'they?' The wizards, but, I dunno... the thing they don't tell you about
acid is it's dull.
It's really dull.
There's this kind of mythology about LSD, it's like sort of psychedelic
trippy with the pixies and the elves - NO!
What happened was, after about an hour, I was just a little bit buzzy.
Little bit buzzy, little bit buzzy, little bit buzzy, little bit buzzy.
All I was doing was watching somebody, and it was this woman, she had
her legs crossed like that, and I said that's quite interesting, the way
the legs cross like that, it's got an angle, like that, and the table
leg's straight, but the angle of the leg's quite interesting, you've got
the angle of the leg, like that, but the table leg like that, and the
angle of the leg's like that, like that, like that like that, and the
other leg comes down like that, forms an N, forms an N, forms an N,
forms an N, N, nnnnnn, nnnnn, nnnnnnnh, for hours and hours and hours
and hours. I was reading furniture for days.
TV writers, they often use acid as a kind of shorthand for 'wacky'.
They'll say something like, 'This sitcom, it'll be like Terry and June
on acid! You imagine what that'd be like!' Yeah. I can imagine what that
would be like. That'd be Terry examining the floral pattern on a plate
for four days. 'That's quite interesting, that's quite interesting,
that's quite interesting, that's quite interesting, that's quite
interesting, that's quite interesting, ooh look that forms a little
circle, that's quite interesting. What do you think of that, June?
That's quite interesting, that's quite interesting... '
No. It's rubbish."
- Bill Bailey, Part Troll (2004)
That said - I'd like to see the Utena movie someday. Maybe not on acid, but maybe on a sugar high? ^_^
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Speaking of Acid:
This Guy Dropped LSD with Groucho Marx!
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them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
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