Why I love film cameras, part one
So, last week I was watching the extremely silly NBC show,
Surface, whose main potential strong suit is the presence in the cast of Rade Serbedzija (Boris the Blade from
Snatch). My reasoning: the TV was turned on. So far Rade is not saving the show. Anyway, the premise is that there are these gigantic dragon-like creatures beginning to emerge from the bottom of the ocean, or the earth's mantle, or some
equally inhospitable place. Various run-ins with the creatures occur, which generally bode ill for mankind's continued survival. We puny humans may take heart, though, because it appears that the spunky single-mom marine biologist may soon be teaming up with the shadowy government-conspiracy-sponsored cover-up marine biologist (Rade Serbedzija, though reversing the casting here would have been inspired). Full disclosure: O.K., I watched an earlier episode of the show too, clearly filmed before Katrina. FEMA was moving with SS-like efficiency to seal off a beach. But what do you expect from science fiction?
Anyway, getting to my point, in one scene one of the (still mostly submerged) giant creatures is photographed by crowds of tourists. Then it releases the kind of electromagnetic pulse that the narrative has prepared us to expect. Just after that, the two rival marine biologists run into each other and begin circling warily in typical good-marine-biologist-vs.-evil-marine-biologist fashion. The good marine biologist says that now it will be impossible to cover up what's happening, because so many tourists took pictures. The evil marine biologist counters that the electromagnetic pulse has wiped out all memory devices within a two mile radius.
This is one reason I continue to shoot film.
How do you like them apples, evil marine biologists?
Labels: film cameras, photography
1 Comments:
Okay, the link to the New Haven website is BRILLIANT! ;)
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