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Demon Seed – 1977 Cammell
- Very borderline archiveable—it has some interesting ideas – very much a 2001 meets rosemary’s baby (and it is absolutely influenced fully by those two masterpieces—you can even picture two producers putting the idea together) and a great lead performance from Julie Christie
- Robert Vaughn does a superb job as the voice Proteus IV (hard to believe he was uncredited for it)
- Cammell isn’t a great director- he co-directed 1970’s performance with roeg but roeg is the talent there
- The premise certainly has modern relevance with google home or alexa
- Great “you like games?” line from the voice as he terrorizes a trapped, and very game Julie Christie
- Christie buoys the goofy scenes and weaker moments to keep the film afloat right when you’re about to jump ship a an evaluative viewer—the film almost loses me completely when you have that golden child robot thing birth scene at the end but it turns out just to be a shell or egg for the child
- The special effects and computer incarnation on a screen are very lava lampy— not so great
- The ambition of the films ideas far exceeds that of the craft of camel
- Recommend but not in the top 20 of 1977
Drake2017-10-06T15:00:36+00:00
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