on 5/25/03 6:10 AM, Al Guthrie at
allanguthrie@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
> Viewed as a parody of a parody, [the Alex
Cox-directed "Revenger's Tragedy"]
> certainly worked for me.
Speaking of "parody of a
parody," have you seen the film called
"Middleton's Changeling"? Marcus Thompson was the director,
De Flores was played by Ian Dury, and the rest of the cast
included Billy Connolly along with my beloved Vivian
Stanshall.
I haven't seen it. Memory tells
me that nobody liked it much, one nomination for a 1998
Fantasporto Award notwithstanding. (The award went to Miike's
"Fudoh.") But the film seems to have been a deliberately
anachronistic -- and anarchistic --
parody/recreation/hommage. One Googlw citation that I was
able to find mentions director Thompson cutting his footage
to the music of Jimi Hendrix.
It's one of those titles
that lingers in my memory, with a gigantic
"?" next to it. I'd be eager for some elucidating
detail.
Chris
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