bradipo (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bradipo) wrote,@ 2008-07-17 09:06:00 |
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Thematic Elephants
Last night we watched "Off the Map," an excellent indy film. Although it's almost peripheral to what the movie's about, the reason I wanted to watch it is that the people in the movie are getting by outside the money economy--they produce most of what they need, scavenge what they can from the dump, and barter for the rest (or do without).
Before getting to see the movie, though, we saw that it had been rated PG-13 for nudity and thematic elephants. So, of course, we had to get out our elephants to watch it with us.
The one on the left is Wellington. The one on the right is Alexander the Grape. They're my military advisers when I write military sf. I usually think of them as science-fictional elephants, rather than thematic elephants, but I suppose they're really both.
Sometimes one of them is the elephant of surprise, but you never know which one.
Last night we watched "Off the Map," an excellent indy film. Although it's almost peripheral to what the movie's about, the reason I wanted to watch it is that the people in the movie are getting by outside the money economy--they produce most of what they need, scavenge what they can from the dump, and barter for the rest (or do without).
Before getting to see the movie, though, we saw that it had been rated PG-13 for nudity and thematic elephants. So, of course, we had to get out our elephants to watch it with us.
The one on the left is Wellington. The one on the right is Alexander the Grape. They're my military advisers when I write military sf. I usually think of them as science-fictional elephants, rather than thematic elephants, but I suppose they're really both.
Sometimes one of them is the elephant of surprise, but you never know which one.
