tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post4865038999127317797..comments2024-03-02T23:44:06.835+00:00Comments on Buck Theorem's Hide-out: ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13Buck Theoremhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15229297104282779341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post-54899295614049151712009-10-14T10:52:21.955+01:002009-10-14T10:52:21.955+01:00Hey Mark!!
Yes, I totally agree with you that the...Hey Mark!!<br /><br />Yes, I totally agree with you that there is an elusive effect created by the paring down of genre, an otherworldliness that is both compelling and intelligent. It doesn't seem like an ambience that modern action editing and pacing preferences care to reach for, or can emulate anymore. <br /><br />Also, Carpenter always had a little tongue-in-cheek to him, unlike Walter Hill, I feel.Buck Theoremhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15229297104282779341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post-8914828604026186922009-10-13T23:34:33.234+01:002009-10-13T23:34:33.234+01:00Great stuff. I feel that Carpenter (and Walter Hi...Great stuff. I feel that Carpenter (and Walter Hill, who you mentioned) were just about the best at this type of film: taking a cliched set-up (and usually a very cliched set-up) and boiling it down to the essence, and so creating something almost other-worldly. The use of cliche means that any slight twist in the subsequent action is subversive- the roles in Assault on Precinct 13, as you mentioned, but also Carpenter's The Thing (where questions of who is right, who is brave and who is who recur, put to us with such minor-key elegance and never at the sacrifice of action) and Hill's The Warriors, which is somehow more than its simplistic premise, in a way that is hard to define.<br /><br />Assault on Precinct 13's soundtrack is my favourite, ever, by the way. Apparently the riff to the main theme was Carpenter's attempt to copy Led Zep's 'Immigrant Song'. Have a listen, it's true!The Legendary Black Marquishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05635303257084892317noreply@blogger.com