Comments on: Exit Music (For a Film): Erasure, “Stop!”

By: Motion Picture Soundtrack: “The End” | Popdose

Motion Picture Soundtrack: “The End” | Popdose — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:31:47 +0000

[...] my post about The Rules of Attraction a few weeks back, commenter Idp presented the idea that many of the heroes in action movies fall [...]

By: ldp

ldp — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:14:20 +0000

What? No mention of http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jan/...

I like the idea you posit about the gamma male, but Bret Easton Ellis … y' lost me there.

Most of the Dean characters are gammas, I would say. Look at Jett Rink in GIANT. Some of the conflicted Alpha male action heroes — Bond, Rambo — look like alphas on the outside, but I'll bet they are, at their heart, gammas. What does that make them? Reluctant alphas?

By: ldp

ldp — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:14:20 +0000

What? No mention of http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jan/...

I like the idea you posit about the gamma male, but Bret Easton Ellis … y' lost me there.

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:01:57 +0000

I'd thought about it. The part where the camera swings out and they join the split screen is one of my favorite moments in film, period (the first and only time I've ever seen this done, though the X-files did something a bit similar in the episode “Triangle”). I may come back to it in the future.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:38:50 +0000

Great analysis of one of my all-time favorite movies – but am surprised that you didn't pick “Colours” as the song throgh which to discuss Sean Bateman. Tthe scenes covered by that song clearly back-up your 'gamma male' argument – and it's a rare version of a beautiful song.

By: james c

james c — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:18:01 +0000

awesome… great post… I have always been a huge fan of the cure even though I didn't discover them until 2025. Now the robots place ear lobes in my brain and my rockas shak me poopstake if you know what I mean… which I think you do.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:58:53 +0000

Neil, did you go there too?

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:48:40 +0000

Zack, this just blew away your previous posts, full stop. Film dissection and sociology debate thinly disguised as a song review.

Good stuff!

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:44:08 +0000

HMC!

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:24:25 +0000

I think James Dean's character in Rebel Without a Cause works is another good example of a gamma. Anyone else have any examples?