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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

"Alpha Complex Soixante"? 

Alpha Complexe Soixante:
[I]t used to be Montreal. Now it's like the Godard movie Alphaville + Alpha Complex from PARANOIA. Everyone is sentimental, speaks French, and is trying to kill everyone else for reasons no-one can quite understand. Mass executions look like pieces of weird performance art. People smoke in noiry stairwells and commit suicide.
It's incredible, but I think this is the first time I've heard Godard's 1965 film Alphaville invoked in the context of Alpha Complex. And yet, just look at this user review on the IMDB page:
Godard creates a world of the future and sets it in modern Paris. The city of Alphaville is run by Alpha-60, a supercomputer, which dictates the society and forces it to operate exercising extreme logic. Logic = happiness and reason. This sounds completely insane. Rather, it would have sounded completely insane in 1967.
Sounds like a new play style - "Noir"!

(To forestall anxious moralists: Though its title (and a few sporadic entries) mischievously suggest not-work-safeness, Zak Sabbath's "Playing D&D With Porn Stars" has become one of the most intriguing and respected blogs of the Old School Renaissance.)
Posted by: Allen Varney / 7:04 PM

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