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May. 24th, 2012 01:44 pmSo, recently, I lent my copy of The Devil Doll to my coworker and she watched it and enjoyed it*. Today, we happened to be discussing it in passing and an interesting question came up.
Guys, why do you think that we, culturally, are no longer interested in the idea of shrinking people? Because it seems like it used to happen a lot more and a lot more seriously in horror and sci-fi but now it shows up very rarely and, if it does, is almost always played for laughs. Is the anxiety that prompted those stories no longer acting on us? If so, why not? Did we just make The Incredible Shrinking Man and figure, that's it, we got the scary shrinking story right, we're done**?
I feel like there's a paper or something in there somewhere. Someone should write that so that I can read it.
(Also, today I learned that this page exists on wikipedia. The internet is pretty awesome.)
*Which makes me 2 for 3 with her: she liked this and The Abominable Dr Phibes but couldn't make it past the first episode of Farscape. I have now lent her Hard Core Logo for reasons that I do not properly recall at this moment, so we'll see how that goes.
**Like they did with Maltese Falcon.
Guys, why do you think that we, culturally, are no longer interested in the idea of shrinking people? Because it seems like it used to happen a lot more and a lot more seriously in horror and sci-fi but now it shows up very rarely and, if it does, is almost always played for laughs. Is the anxiety that prompted those stories no longer acting on us? If so, why not? Did we just make The Incredible Shrinking Man and figure, that's it, we got the scary shrinking story right, we're done**?
I feel like there's a paper or something in there somewhere. Someone should write that so that I can read it.
(Also, today I learned that this page exists on wikipedia. The internet is pretty awesome.)
*Which makes me 2 for 3 with her: she liked this and The Abominable Dr Phibes but couldn't make it past the first episode of Farscape. I have now lent her Hard Core Logo for reasons that I do not properly recall at this moment, so we'll see how that goes.
**Like they did with Maltese Falcon.
