"Frequent Scorsese collaboratorRobbie Robertson of The Band composed the score, which critics have described as "old-timey", "bluesy", and "percussive".
The film also features a soundtrack of popular music from the 1920s and Native American songs.
It was Robertson's final completed film score before he died in August 2023."
I'll have to watch my 'Taxi Driver'DVD before seeing Marty's new movie;-)
I saw these orange suited dancers in a local newspaper and wondered if the orange suits were a salute to the Jupiter retrograde starting next week or if they were just being prisoners of society?-)
I found this universe poster in an Op shop the other day and thought I would blu-tac it to my computer room wall (for a while at least) to remind me to learn more about astronomy and just how much we humans really know ... or think we know ... about our solar system and the universe we live in.
And that you can't believe everything they tell you in an educational poster, such as it only takes 3 hours to get to the moon by rocket:-)
Even when watching the lecture series'A Field Guide to the Planets' on 'The Great Courses'/'Wondrium' streaming service they often 'white noise' out the stuff they got wrong at the time of filming the series, but they forget to edit it out of the closed captions:-)
I personally can only see a rabbit silhouetted on the moon, but I couldn't help thinking my looney/luney mate Christopher Knowles at'The Secret Sun' Blogmight imagine "The Sibyl" when he looks moonwardtonight or tomorrow night?-)
"The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus), is the only ancient Romannovel in Latin to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel is Lucius.
At the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself.
The plot revolves around the protagonist's curiosity (curiositas) and insatiable desire to see and practice magic.
While trying to perform a spell to transform into a bird, he is accidentally transformed into an ass.
This leads to a long journey, literal and metaphorical, filled withinset tales.
He finally finds salvation through the intervention of the goddess Isis, whose cult he joins."
I was only ever familiar with the 1940 Disney version of the Pinocchio story until these new movies hit the streaming services in the last year or two.
I was really looking forward to seeing what Robert Zemeckis would do with the new Disney version, and while I didn't think it was as bad as the Rotten Tomatoes scores for the viewers and the critics alike, with the twin scores of 27%, I didn't think it was a better movie than the original 1940 animated one.
And let's not forget the 2001 version of Pinocchio more or less, called A.I.Artificial Intelligence that Kubrick wanted to make, but died in 1999, so Spielberg made it for him, although probably not the way Kubrick would have told it and shot it?
In 'The Secret Life of Puppets'Victoria Nelson mentions Cupidand Psyche, which is a sub-story in 'The Golden Ass' and while I was aware of that story, I didn't realize it was part of 'The Golden Ass' until I listened to the book recently.
I have read a book about Cupid and Psyche years ago, which I wrote about in this old post -
The funny thing is that Disney re-wrote the story to make his film and filled it with even more nods and winks to 'The Golden Ass' than the Italian author did.
There was no wishing on a star ... or Venus ... in the book version, nor a goldfish named Cleo(patra) who lives in a castle like a queen would.
Although the blue fairy seems to be the queen of heaven/Isis.
The Blue Fairy/Queen even knights Jiminy Cricket, making him Sir Jiminy Cricket in both Disney movie versions.
I'm not sure if those frogs under Cleo's fishbowl are a shout out to Kek or not either:-)
There are also plenty of feathers around in the 1940 version, as in quill pens(which could also be a shoutout to Thoth and writing) and the feather in Pinocchio's hat, which may allude to Maat's feather and the weighing of the heart against the feather.
There is also a scene where Lampwick asks Pinocchio"who's the beetle?" in the pool hall when referring to Jiminy Cricket, which could be a shoutout to thescarab beetle?
Even in the scene where Pinocchio sings 'I've Got No Strings' he starts the song from the top of stairs that look like an unfinished pyramid/or cliff of the Fool and falls on his face.
The audience does throw money at the no stringed puppet after his song, although gold coins, not one-dollar American bills;-)
So, food for thought or just the musings of an ass?
