What a difference a month makes! March certainly did come in like a lion -- and so did a handful of bloggers dedicated to the challenge of impromptu animal dummy-death analysis/critique for our DESTRUCTIBLE BLOG-A-THON.1!
And so, to prove we are no April Fools, The Flying Maciste Brothers welcome Springtime and bid 'adieu' to Winter with this humble offering -- multitudes of prostheticized lambs to the slaughter with this sequence from the Nicholas Roeg-lensed adaptation of Thomas Hardy's FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD.
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CLOSE INSPECTION
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CLOSE INSPECTION
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Waste not want not!
post © Howard S. Berger & Kevin Marr
4 comments:
For whatever reason, when watching this several years ago, it never occurred to me that these were dummy sheep. On retrospect - well, duh. This is what makes Destructible Man such a valuable public service. Someone, like maybe Lou Reed, should cut a PSA on your behalf.
God, what a job, deflating bloated sheep. If that were a weekly series, I'd sure as shit watch it.
You can't say this often, but I learned something from this film. Years ago, I visited a sheep farm and I remember thinking, hey, if the sheep blow up... I know what to do!
"Who's got a Bic pen?!
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