Thursday, February 15, 2007

Jodorowsky vs. Barney

Watching The Holy Mountain the other night, I suddenly realized I've seen this before. But in the future: The Cremaster cycle. So trying to fit in ambition somewhere between this and this, but beeing at least as far fetched, I give you this thursday night analysis.

The love for plastic goo is clearly represented by both directors:

The Good-Year woman holding the ballons reminds me of this Jesus like character holding two bundles of ballons, one red, the other blue:


But one has to remind oneself about the fact that inside each respective blimp, there is a woman playing around with either blue or white grapes, that from a distance looks just like ballons.

At last, the scene from the Gellert Baths wherein I tend to remember (also half-naked women by the way) forming the pattern of the Cremaster logo. Not all unlike this bath then, from the Holy Mountain. Unfortunately I couldn't find any good pictures of this scene from Cremaster V:

In fact the common link between Barney and Jodorowski seems to be Kenneth Anger. Haven't seen any films by him though.
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The Holy Mountain
The Cremaster Cycle

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