Alphaville

the computer's croaky voice was actually a real old guy with voicebox!!

haha well tsk it's not precise enough

Watched this last night. Interesting coming to it after seeing Blade Runner in the theater on Saturday evening. I thought it was amazingly dreamlike. Don't know if I have a whole lot to say yet that's fully developed, but I would like to point out that the voice of Alpha 60 is one of the most absolutely horrible sounding things I've ever had to put up with.

(yes I know it was a dude with no larynx. still, my god.)

Au contraire, I think he had plenty of larynx back then.

of the mechanical variety, perhaps

seriously though when he was walking down the hallway and alpha 60 is calling off the status of the offices - occupee occupee libre libre occupee - I wanted to plug my ears. yikes.

What about the cab driver, what did you think of his voice?

Anyway, somebody told me a long time ago that that was Godard himself talking through some kind of voicebox effect, but now I'm not so sure.

check the wiki

it came from the chris darke book

That book looks pretty good. Obviously I have accumulated some misinformation in the past, so I think I need to read it to clear things up.

I would kind of like to read that and the blade runner book. are there any other bizarrely anachronistic future-noir movies worth seeing? nb anime does not count but then again netflix is the great enabler

Caution/Constantine's first cigarette lighter open and close seems to be Foleyed with a film slate.

good catch!

Thx. I reserved that book from the library and just picked it up and started looking through it and so far it seems really good. I'm a big fan of stuff like this where a British guy is interested in French stuff but not 'bewitched' by it. Thanks for the tip, even if you haven't read it yourself.

I'm watching this right now and its so fuckin weird.

"What illuminates the night?"
"Poetry."

And God yes the voice of Alpha 60 is a chore

yup, that voice is so horrible.

i think i would've liked it a lot, but i just could not get past that voice. the texture of it literally made me feel sick. and then thinking about how the movie was ruined by such a tiny detail pissed me off and i stopped watching it.

Yeah this is actually my 3rd attempt as the first was ruined by bad captions and the 2nd was ruined by that voice.

ok i did not see a car chase coming this is pretty dope

hahaha forgot that was in there, i *should* watch it again!

actually i was looking for this thing last week, but the netflix didn't have it online. you're right about the voice..

I love the voice! I sound a bit like that in the mornings sometimes.

i think this is one of his best. karina at peak hotness anyways.

Horrible voicebox aside, Alpha 60's interrogation of LC is one of my favorite bits of Godard for the constantly shifting microphones around his head. No idea why I find that so creepy.

this movie is so fucking dope it is probably in my all-time top 5 albeit at a time when i am only discovering the greatness of french new wave

it is SO FUCKING DOPE and Alpha 60's voice is fucking dope as well imo, it's so brutally compelling, and the movie as a whole is just like some sort of stunning dream (i.e. tombot otm) about romanticism that goddamn EARNS its happy ending

Alphaville has been on my "I need to own this one eventually" list for so long now. I'm still relatively poorly-informed when it comes to a variety of films, but I went through a handful of Godard works from that time a few years ago right around the time I was jumping into a science fiction phase and this hit all the right buttons.

and that car chase is so good! the way the police cars *have* to be logical! it's like some sort of grotesque ballet

if there's an afterlife, I hope whatever I'm doing merits an answer to the question "what if this movie had been produced by Roger Corman," althought if I have a limited number of questions I can ask I'm not sure if that goes before or after "what if Wesley Willis and Like A Tim met and started a band"

Things That Never Got The Opportunity That Chocolate And Peanut Butter Did

lemmy caution has got a wicked case of sanpaku going on

opened in France 50 years ago today

http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.de/2015/05/study-of-single-film-on-godards.html

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/jean-luc-godards-dystopian-sci-fi-classic-alphaville-turns-50

Jean-Luc Godard originally sought theorist Roland Barthes for the role of Professor von Braun.

!!

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

I love the texture of Alpha 60's voice.

From the interview scene, Lemmy drives a Ford "Galaxie". No such car existed at the time and he actually drives a Mustang. Ford did start producing the Galaxy thirty years later though.

Thread doesn’t seem to note that originally he intended to film Brian Aldiss’s Non-Stop but soon realized that he didn’t have the budget for the generation starship sets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Galaxie

The Ford Galaxie is a full-sized car that was built in the United States of America by Ford for model years 1959 through to 1974.

'63 Galaxie: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/1963_Ford_Galaxie_sedan_2_--_06-05-2010.jpg/280px-1963_Ford_Galaxie_sedan_2_--_06-05-2010.jpg

Ah shite, my bad. Assumed because it was a Mustang he actually drove the Galaxie must have been a made up space-y sounding model. Thanks for the correction.

is the poem (“your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips…”) attributed to eluard actually an eluard poem? why can’t I find it anywhere?

You are not the first to ask the question, and the answer is: apparently, it's a collage of lines from multiple poems by Eluard

http://cavesdumajestic.canalblog.com/archives/2016/07/22/34089500.html