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18:43 / 23.09.04

Heil posters!

I don't know if people are getting all these magick ideas through out films (and I mean the main streams ones). The good thing is that no film is saying the word "magick" yet (that probably would fall to that pop pseudomysticism that fucked it up all our notions of the subject, and led generations to a "rational" materialism with irrational fears when concerns themes like mysticism, magick and "emotion").

"Donnie Darko", the neo-messiah-shaman. Blazing through theories of the universe and time, Donnie has his esquizo-shamanic spirit-god "Frank" guiding him through out the suburban life. His ideas, attitudes and insights about reality comes imediatly from his subconscious and from a f***ed up line between what's "real" and what's not.

Very similar to "Cast Away" (Robert Zemeckis) and Chuck Noland's (the 'primitive' shaman) spirit/god-ball Wilson, giving him the confort of a friend and insights and ideas for survival (I mean, c'mon... check the 'making fire' scene...!).

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" - it seemed to me that the film was a long ritual, a long walk through landscapes of dreams and spheres so he could get the final information (Kate Winslet: "meet me in...") from his former lover. There's even that scene where Winslet talks about how she used one of her dolls in her childhood as a voudoun doll (or as a doll-figure of a sigil) of herself. That one is pretty explicit.

There's that Robert Downey Jr., "The Singing Detective" and a new film in pre-production with Billy Bob Thorton and Milla Jollovich, "Fade Out". Both deal with hipersigils.

Lots of hugs and kisses,

Captain Sparrow.

19:20 / 23.09.04

there was that "practical magic" film, with Sandra Bullock and, uh, someone else. it was pretty bad though.

20:17 / 23.09.04

Nicole Kidman.

"Wizard Of Oz" is the most magickal movie ever made. It's played ever year hundreds of times and everyone knows the lines. It's a hero's mythic journey that ends with a nirvana-inducing mantra.

21:12 / 23.09.04

yeah well, what i'm really trying to say is that these movies are being two hours encyclopedia of ways to aproach subjects and do things in a magickal sense... ways of approaching things in a post-modernist/chaos magick.
jaysis... i'm sounding a lot like Mason on "'Speed' and 23s"
I think even Fight Club has a lot to it.

01:13 / 24.09.04

The Phantom, played by the cheerful Billy Zane, is very clearly an animist, able to communicate with wolves and horses. His totem is his father, the previous The Phantom whom he's able to confer with in moments of contemplation. Like Hourman.

01:17 / 24.09.04

But, it's basically a rite of passage movie with Xane trying to please his father, who is haunting him, and take up the family mantle (when he gets his dad's belt back from his killer, that's clearly not him getting the belt back but assuming what it represents). Gedt? When he uses the fourth skull at the end that's clearly showing that he had the power inside all along but that the power is also destructive and he is both the force and the opposing force. Or summat.

I don't know, maybe he should've just punched Nazis for 75 minutes. Would've suited me.

01:21 / 24.09.04

Oh, and Short Circuit 2 was clearly about a robot being purified alchemically/spiritually/emotionally. I mean in the final scene he's GOLD for fucks sake. And he loses an eye in that horrible beating scene at the end (do not dissamble Number 5!), after jumping down after hanging from a tree. Odin much?

01:24 / 24.09.04

And Crimson Tide was a movie about premature ejaculation with the impotent Hackman empowered by Viagra [the nukes] being outmoded by Washington [who is black and therefore far more well endowed]. Also, Hackman has a little dog at the end which represents the Age of Aquarius.

02:26 / 24.09.04

'Masked and Anonymous', the Dylan thing, is totally a hypersigil and magicky whether he, or anyone, will admit to it or not.
'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' is pretty much a gnostic passion play with a nice rebis rebus endnote.
'Pi', 'The Man Who fell to Earth', 'Adolescent Apocalypse' (AKA 'Utena: The Movie), and, I'd argue, much of David Lynch's catalogue are up and magickally operative, most certainly. And no, I don't draw a line between obliquely psychological, physical, or 'other' manipulation/alteration/mutilation either. They are all instructional and demonstrative of reality realisation, which, far as I'm concerned, is what magick is centrally concerned with. Being as you be, whether you were to being that before, sometime in the future present. Ack! Sorry for that.
To preface - after the fact - I'd like to point out, just how suspect my opinion is: If you combine the films (and/or books) of Ed Wood, specifically 'Glen or Glenda', 'Plan 9', and say, any random third masterpiece, you get the Invisibles. Yes, you do. Fic suits, fetishes, reality manipulation, alien encounters as attempt to help/doctor, violence of these encounters, stupidity of the continual military industrial nonsense, and you know, the bomb to end all bombs and wipe it all away is the hand of glory (our hand touching the page and moving things along) and the 2012 end of it all beginning, birth to the supercontext.

04:47 / 24.09.04

STAR WARS, surely. The Force and its 2 sides/ magickal paths. All of the talk about meditative, intuitive and related altered states applied to accomplish astonishing (& sometimes superhumanor "miraculous") feats. You can map out the main characters and events of the movies along the major arcana of the Tarot to parallel Luke's journey with The Fool's journey. The Jedi are like a League of Extraordinary Wizards. Darth Vader seems a perfect expression of the Tao as well as a fine avatar for Crowley's aggressive Horus energy.

05:55 / 25.09.04

"Sons of Steel" is the single most perfect Invisibles film ever made. But none of you fools will ever see it. I own the only ex-rental video tape in the universe and you can't borrow it, nyaah.

21:15 / 26.09.04

I seemed to notice a few characters using magick in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Some of it was quite buried in the subtext, though. Did anyone else notice that Galadriel seemed to speak both verbally and IN PEOPLE'S MINDS? That's kinda fucked up. And what was going on with those trees? I think it's 100% pure uncut shamanstupicuous, like a motherfucker.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:08 / 27.09.04

The Wicker Man, for one. All that Golden Bough stuff.

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:24 / 27.09.04

Ah, Sons of Steel... managing to be the second-best sci-fi themed comedy musical made in Australia in the 80s...

11:41 / 27.09.04

(choke) s...someone else SAW IT?!

O_O;

12:43 / 27.09.04

Eyes Wide Shut

Tom sees the other side to his wife's relationship with him, and discovers a secret society who pansy about in masks, whilst fucking prostitutes. But its Kubrick so there's something weird going on.

Institute Benjamenta or this dream people call human life

This film seems to act like a hypersigil. Very strange stuff. Poetic, abstract, artistic (without a hint of irony), defying explanation and logic. Its about a school for servants, with a lot of psycho-drama and weird camera work. I dunno. See it.

more...

Metropolis
Baraka
Adaptation

(shit I just realised you said mainstream... sorry)

13:32 / 27.09.04

There's the OTHER great Australian Invisibles fillum, Future Schlock...
Anyone seen Oliver Gruener in "Savage"? Strange martial arts film filled with Illuminatus references.

05:22 / 13.10.04

Ha, Illuminati in the last post too.

Tomb Raider just came to my mind, I remembered the Triangle being Magick and then found this on the net :

'For her cinematic debut, Lara (Angelina Jolie, Girl Interrupted) goes on a quest that takes her around the globe. She’s in a race against time as the evil Illuminati, a group of nondescript bad guys, seek out the mystical Triangle of Light that was split in two and banished to opposite ends of the earth in order to dispel its power. Now, with an empowering eclipse that takes place only once every 5,000 years on the horizon, the Illuminati want to find the triangle, put it back together, and be the recipients of its evil magic.'

15:08 / 13.10.04

Run Lola Run-The third sequence where eveything just "comes together"...particularly the casino scene with Lola's primal scream winning her the jackpot, the ambulance with the laying on of hands, and the blind woman syncronistically grabbing the boyfriend's hand just in time for him to see the hobo wheeling by with his cash.