engl 6750/7750 film studies movies vs. television july 18, 2013

ENGL 6750/7750 Film Studies

Movies vs.

Television

July 18, 2013


Movies vs. TV: Looper (Rian Johnson 2012) versus Life on Mars UK (BBC, 1996-1997)

Movies vs. Television

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1



Time Travel Movies and Television


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http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-best-time-time-travel-movies/




Time Travel Movies and Television


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http://www.ugo.com/tv/the-best-and-worst-time-travel-tv-shows


Looper (Rian Johnson 2012)



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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rian Johnson



Life on Mars UK (BBC, 2006-2007)



Julie Gardner,

BBC Wales

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Matthew Graham (middle), Tony Jordan, Ashley Pharoah (left to right)—the co-creators of Life on Mars.

Graham (L), Pharoah (R)


Blackpool, UK

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Television Time-MachinesFilm Studies

New York, 1960s

Manchester, England, 1970s

Worlds where sexism, racism, smoking, and drinking are now permissable.


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Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)


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Ray Carling, Chris Skelton, Annie Cartwright, Gene Hunt, Sam Tyler


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Ray Carling, Unknown Copper, Chris Shelton, Gene Hunt


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Sam Tyler, Gene Hunt, Annie Cartwright


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Chris Skelton, Gene Hunt, Sam Tyler, Ray Shelton, Annie Cartwright


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We were part of what felt like a very special show, a different show, kinda mad, a bit ground-breaking, a bit different, a bit science fiction, a gritty drama, you know, something different.—Philip Glenister, “The Return of Life on Mars,” Disc 1, Season Two DVDs (Life on Mars UK)


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Sam Tyler (John Simm)


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Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister)


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Sam and Gene--and the Buddy FilmMovies vs. Television

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The Test Card Girl


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Ancillary Texts


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S. J. Clarkson, Life on Mars’ go-to director and director of the finale

The Life on Mars FinaleTrailer for Season 210 April 2007Only the 16th EpisodeNot falling prey to Lostness (show clip from “The End of Life on Mars”)The controversyAshes to Ashes


http://culttvmtsu.blogspot.com/2011/03/trailer-for-life-on-mars-uk-season-two.html

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From a Review on IMDB"The past is another country," as I think L P Hartley put it, "they do things differently there." And in the end the past turns off the television, which is us. Of course it is unrealistic, it always was.I don't know what the writers' intention was, but "Life on Mars" emerges as a mirror on our world, letting us see the present from the past, and the past from the present, comparing the moralities of then and now without judgement.But that is far from all, so many aspects have emerged that it would take a thesis to do them justice. "Salvation" perhaps is one. Is Sam to be saved? What does he have to do, make what sacrifice, perform what ritual? And in the end is it salvation or damnation he is being offered? Up until well into the last episode I was seeing Frank Morgan as the saviour-surgeon, but the mask began to slip. Then comes the bright light. Is this the light of day, or is it that light often reported by people who have had near death experiences? Sam emerges into a joyless future, only Frank Morgan seems happy, smug even. Sam's mum is strangely subdued, "You always keep your promises," she says.


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The wrongness of it all weighs on Sam, and when, in a dreary and pointless meeting, he cuts his finger and feels nothing, the words of Nelson the barman come back to him - if you feel, then you are alive. Sam now recognises that the "home" he has been taken to is the "home" of the grave, the prior visit to the graveyard is no coincidence. Sam chooses life, by dying in the land of the dead.

There are many hidden gems in this series, many threads to the tapestry. It is in the end a fantasy, in which not much makes sense. But unlike so many tightly logical police procedurals, it provides food for the soul. I loved it.--Andrew Goss (Australia)


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Life on Mars USA


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Life on Mars (UK) Ep # Life on Mars (US)Season 1: Episode 1 1 “Out Here in the Fields”

Episode 2 2 “The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler”

Episode 3 3 “My Maharishi is Bigger Than Your Maharishi”

Episode 4 4 “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow”

Episode 5 5 “Things to Do in New York When You’re Dead”

Episode 6 6 “Tuesday’s Dead”

Episode 7 7 “The Man Who Sold the World”

Episode 8 8 “Take a Look at the Lawmen”

Season 2: Episode 9 9 “The Darkside of the Mook”

Episode 10 10 “Let All the Children Boogie”

Episode 11 11 “Home is Where You Hang Your Holster”

Episode 12 12 “The Simple Secret of The Note in Us All”

Episode 13 13 “Revenge of Broken Jaw”

Episode 14 14 “Coffee, Tea, or Annie”

Episode 15 15 “All the Young Dudes”

Episode 16 16 “Everyone Knows It’s Windy”

17 “Life is a Rock”


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Gene Hunt & Sam Tyler (US) | Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt (UK)


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Annie Cartwright and Ray Carling (UK on left; US on right)


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Detective Chris Skelton (UK [L] and US [R])Movies vs. Television

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In the BBC version he was always in a coma and you pretty much knew that from [the beginning] and that was sort of, the audience could be playing around with different theories, [but] it was relatively clear that that's what it was. They were doing 16 episodes, that's what it was. Our mythology is completely different with the kind blessing of the BBC people. They encouraged us to change the mythology. It's great for episodes, it's not so great for 116 episodes—that the whole thing is a dream sequence.

—Josh Applebaum (Sullivan, 2008, Part 2)


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When ABC cancelled Life on Mars, . . . the only suspense left was the question of how Appelbaum and company would resolve the mystery of Sam Tyler. Alas, “Life is a Rock” (1.17) may well go down as one of the worst series finales of all time. In its last five minutes we learn that Sam has in fact been an astronaut in suspended animation on a mission to Mars in 2035 (the "creative team" having taken the title a bit too literally) during which he has been fed a Philip K. Dickian neural stimulation program that had him dreaming he was a 1970s cop (after something has gone haywire with the 2008 cop program). His crewmates are, of course, Ray, Chris, and Annie. Windy—his hippie neighbor in the series—was, in reality, the spaceship’s computer. ("And you were there, and you, and you!") The mission they are on is research into DNA—a "gene hunt" so to speak—and the Keitel Gene Hunt turns out to be . . . Sam’s father, aka "Major Tom!" Now awake as they approach Mars, “Tom” and Sam, father and son, decide they don't want to fight any more.

Lavery, David. “The Emigration of Life on Mars: Sam and Gene Do America” (in Life on Mars to Ashes to Ashes, ed. Steve Lacey and Ruth McElroy (University of Chicago Press).

Watch the final minutes of

LoMUSA.


http://culttvmtsu.blogspot.com/2011/03/last-minutes-of-life-on-mars-usa.html




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