quote:Originally posted by invix:
And I'm pretty sure morrison got the whole midwich/stepford cuckoo thing from John Wyndham, who wrote a book called 'the midwich cuckoos'
They're a reference to at least three separate sources:
John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos', as you say. In the film version ('Village of the Damned'), the weird psychic children are all blonde-haired - and more violent than in the book.
'The Stepford Wives', a peculiar film from the mid-70s about an American town where all the women have been replaced with spookily zombie-like robots which are engineered to cook, clean, fuck (gratefully) and, this being the 1970s, wear big hats and flowery dresses.
'The Pride of Miss Jean Brodie' by Muriel Spark, again inspiring one of Dame Maggie Smith's greatest films. She plays Miss Brodie, a charismatic Edinburgh schoolteacher who exerts svengali-like powers over her 'gels' (who she refers to as the 'creme de la creme'), subtly moulding them in her own image and living vicariously through them - sometimes to their detriment. In one scene, an artist paints a series of portraits of Miss Brodie's 'set', and to him they're all even starting to look like her... |
