Sunday, February 27, 2011

Brunton Echo 440 Rangefinder Manual

SCORPIO RISING

- Frequencies Cult Movies -


SCORPIO RISING (1964) Color, 16mm / Director: Kenneth Anger / Screenplay: Ernest DeGlucksman / Cast: Bruce Bryon , Johnny Wisdom, Frank Carifi, John Palone, Ernie Allo, Barry Rubin, Steve Crandall, Bill Dorfman , Johnny Dodds / Length: 29 min . / Country: U.S. / Genre: mediometraggio / Music: Little Peggy March, The Angels, Bobby Vinton, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, The Crystals, The Ron-dells, Kris Jensen, Claudine Clark, Gene McDaniels, and The Surfaris



The daily rituals of a group of motorcyclists: Scorpio (Bruce Byron) is developing its own motion, idles reading comics snorts, and on television flowing sequences of the wild then leads his gang in raids vandalistiche and homosexual orgies where sex becomes most purely sexual act. Accused of obscenity exit, the most famous work Anger, no dialogue, is a journey into the subculture and the iconography of the rider, whose customs are today seen as the remuneration of ancient pagan rituals. Scorpio is progressively compared to Jesus, Hitler and the Devil, often with striking visual juxtapositions: the icons and Hollywood, from Brando to Dean, is mentioned along with fascinated eyes and cynical. Smart assembly and use of pop songs to serve as ironic counterpoint to the images (the habit of Scorpio, with studded leather jacket and blue jeans to the twinkling of Blue Velvet ). The color is black, the material leather, the seduction is beauty, the justification honesty, the aim is ecstasy, the fantasy death.


"Manifesto" queer cinema "from one of the most caustic and careful observers of the new Hollywood. Scorpio Rising is a dizzying journey in the obsession. Fetish homosexual, religious symbols Pagans and bound by the iconoclastic spirit of Anger, which, with irony and irreverence, never falls into triviality but becomes, instead, the new assay sensitivity released. indispensable stage of the creation of contemporary cinematic language. " (mymovies.it)

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