ENTERTAINING THE FUTURE Entertaining the Past, or "How Crime Does Pay" Mike Milne FrarneStore At the beginning of 1969 - - or perhaps it was at the end of the year before - - I had been to see Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001, that had just opened in London. (Actually, I had been to see it several times. If you ever wonder what sort of sad person likes to sir and watch a three-hour film in which only five things happen, that person is me - - although I draw the line at AndyWarhol films.)You might remember the famous dissolve between the prologue and the main film, in which a furry australopithecine, having co-opted an anteIope's femur to make the world's first offensive weapon, and having put it through extensive field trials (murdering other antelopes), finally succeeds in beating off a rival hominid group from a disputed waterhole. In a moment of pure ecstasy and sheer Iook-at-me-ma-top-ofthe-world triumph, the proto-human hurls the bone high into the air, and Kubrick's camera follows it up as it rambles lazily, end over end... ...and dissolves to a space station as it tumbles lazily in orbit a hundred thousand years later. It
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Entertaining the past, or how crime does pay
Milne, Mike
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Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1998
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