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Published: 2012-11-09 11:30:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 24824; Favourites: 530; Downloads: 206
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"I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate"It's the romance of Roy Batty's soliloquy that conjures up for me a far off exoctic place in the cosmos. I imangined the gate to be of ancient origin, built eons ago by a space faring civilisation. I imagined the c-beams to be interstellar arc lights of unknown origin and were intentionally incorporated to help give the gate an ominous yet mysterious feel. We see Roy in the lower forground looking out in awe at this feat of wonder .
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I always interpreted it as flashes of particle weapons at an Einstein-Rosen stargate in space.
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Thats a cool idea. I was attempting to capture that sence of awe and mystery, remember Roy is depicting a very emotional account of the things he has seen at the end of his life and we as the viewer and listener are in awe and wonder. I wanted to capture an essence of that in this piece.
Regards,
M
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cool I've always pictured the Tanhauser gate to be the name of a famous space battle the equivalent of Trafalgar or Thermopylae and C-beams were the Highpower-laser beams between two opposing fleets and roy as a pilot in the battle... I really like this view of it as a place and a literal gate.
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Just to add to the point, correction..."Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" yes that sounds military to me. So I understand your point as well. I likeyour idea that it was similar to the Battle of Trafalgar or Thermopylae. interesting vision.
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Its interesting because I havent read any evidence to the reason behind David Peoples screenwrite of Roy's discription of these far off exoctic places, so whether it's military remains uncertain. I interpreted the image as Roy's nostalgic recollection. Its both a joyous and a sad moment in his last few minutes of his life, so i wanted to capture that awsome spectacle he describes.
Regards,
M
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Yes I think it was left purposely vauge and open to interpretation to add to the sense of mystery and wonder at the awe-inspiring things he had seen in his short life.
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Thank you very much.
Regards,
M
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Now that is a big complement! Thank you very much!
Regards,
M
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Don't give Ridley anymore ideas for dreadful films based on his masterpieces...
This is epic and the depiction of Roy is joy! Magnificent!
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Lol! Well lets hope he doesnt ruin BR 2. I truly believe we went through the best of Sci-fi movies between 1977-1984. It was how Directors, Crew and Actors went through developmental hells but came up with the goods. These days its too easy to rely heavily on CGI.
Regards my friend.
M
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" truly believe we went through the best of Sci-fi movies between 1977-1984. It was how Directors, Crew and Actors went through developmental hells but came up with the goods. "
*Nods like an oil derek*
"These days its too easy to rely heavily on CGI."
*Nods like an oil derek again*
I read a sequel to the film - F***ing shit! AVOID!!!
And look at Prometheus to see the point!
Again wonderful image and Roy's minimal portrait has explosive impact here.
C'EST BON!! A pleasure sir
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Lol!!!Like you need to be told that...but heh we all need to console one another in empathy and count ourselfs lucky we were around at that glorious time. But its about time we repeat that again with some good ol fasioned scifi film making, I mean F***in hell there are some phenominal story tellers out there where the opportunities are immense to produce some great scifi visions. There i've had my rant on the soap box.
Regards,
M
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Nice to know there are still those who care - I pity the generations that missed that time...
Rant matey - its only fact
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Stunning, though I'd always assumed the C-beams would have been ship weapons due to Batty's role as a military replicant and the Tanhauser Gate being a some neo-gothic jump gate allowing for FTL travel to off world colonies.
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Thankyou for faving!
Yeh. you know I was putting a romantic slant on the piece based on Roy's soliloquy. Despite his millitary background he was just living those last moments of nostalgia to put a point across to deckard that he had loved life as much as the next man if not more. If you recall the words he said to Chew "If you could see what I have seen with your eye's.
regards,
M
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Thank you.
Regards,
M
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AWESOME !!!!! You really go in a fabulous direction, dude! This is really a great piece...
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Thank you Ludo! My intention was to awe inspire. Of course i was listening to Vangelis when creating this piece. So I am influnced heavily by his music as well.
Regards my friend,
M
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Keep the good work Mark, this is really awesome!
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thank you Ludo! Hey have you listened to Vangelis's album Mythodia? if not take a listen as its based around the mars landings.
Regards,
m
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I know the 1st theme and I've watched parts of the concert videos, but I haven't yet listened to it fully. It's not the one that attracts me best.
If you search space inspiration in music, you must listen to Jean Michel Jarre's album Rendez-Vous, and to almost all Michael Stearns. They are both masters of powerful synthesizer. You probably know them already!
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Ii am a big JMJ fan! aprt from his two major analogue synth masterpieces (Oxygene & Equinoxe) My favourite one is Chronologie, concept wise it was major soundtrack in my life.
Michael Steams I'll try out thank you.
Try these music artists out....
Brian Eno's Apollo Soundtrack.
M83,
Tom Heasley- Desert Tryptique
Matthew Florianz
Biosphere
Regards,
M
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hi dude!
I tank you very much for those references. I'm gonna listen to them these days.
Can't wait to see your next "trip" !
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