True Friday blog material: Nature red in tooth and claw
Deepest thanks to Tim F. over at Balloon Juice for resurrecting one of the first truly absurdist pleasures of my childhood.
He’s posted an indispensable YouTube clip here.
Now, having properly acknowledged source and debt, I’ll shamelessly appropriate the good stuff.
Here is one of the few true masterpieces in — how to justify this on a nominally science-y blog? –natural history film making….
I cannot begin to describe how shockingly wonderful this was to a boy in the midst of high teen-age contempt for all and everything, sitting in the dark in a theater on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, back in the day.
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January 25, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Was this made before or after the Monty Python crushing foot?
January 25, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Bambi meets Godzilla came out in 1969. The first Monty Python episode broadcast that spring. Simultaeneous invention, I would say.
January 26, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I don’t know…as a youth sitting atop a mountain in Vietnam, in the midst of high teen-age contempt for everything, and I mean everything, the real thing I watched, people getting crushed by forces they could not imagine, or predict, seemed, how should I say this, less than wonderful?
January 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm
On a tangent:
Differently delicious is Marv Newland’s 1988 “Black Hula”