dinsdag 26 juni 2007
survival never goes out of style
In the last couple days, the world championships for track and field has been going on in Canada. They've been showing them on TV here in Germany, and I've been watching it with an unusually strong interest.While watching this, I've come to the realization that - unlike more complicated sports like football, soccer, hockey, or any other such sport with lots of organization and rules - track and field events get at the heart of being human.Just think about it. What are the track and field events? Running the fastest, jumping as far or high as you can, and throwing heavy or pointy things as far as possible.All these things are very useful for one of two things:getting away from something that is going to kill youor killing something.
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Ah I see you, C.W., quoting Jawbreaker in your subject lines and it brings a smile to my beleaguered face on this Tuesday where again I'll waste 9 hours of my life at work.And I think your right about the track and field. Greeks people were doing that shit before they were worried about things like rules. Team sports are great, but there are so many factors and rules that can determine the outcome - in track and field, the fastest guy wins. On this thread, I think, along the lines of what you said, they should heighten the risk involved with Olympics...unleash a few hungry-ass lions behind the sprinters - put a sniper up in a tower that the discus thrower has to knock out or be killed.This is an idea for the worst movie ever. Along the lines of Killer Clowns from Outer Space.A group of five or six olympic athletes (split evenly in gender, and coming from different places around the globe, of course) are abducted by aliens who have been watching the Olympics on television - and have decided that these 6 olympic champions now must partake in their own Alien Olympics - where the stakes are much, much, higher - life or DEATH!! And it would be shit like in the hammer toss, the guy had to knock out a laser cannon before it disintegrated him - think The Running Man meets Space Jam (sans Tweety) meets Cube.Jesus, somebody might actually buy that fucking shit. I wish I had more time to write."Another door!"
Your movie sounds more like American Galdiators meets The Running Man. And yes, it likely would be the worst movie ever, after The Other Sister of course. I must say though that the Greeks had some shit that wasn't all about survival. They were in many ways more civilized than us in that they had a democracy that worked and most educated Greeks knew that there were no Gods by the time of Plato. Of course they had to pretend otherwise so as not to corrupt the youth.And in modern track and field, as in many modern sports, the best chemist often wins.
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