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I have been watching 791 after a very long time and it struck me, how could it be possible, that I hadn’t noticed the allusions to Alien saga before.
Maybe it’s just me, but I found them pretty obvious now.So… Did you notice them as well?
And have you noticed any other allusions like these in other eps?There are so many references in Lexx its unreal!
It seems to be a homage to whatever the hell the writers were watching the night before 😈Some of the obvious ones I noticed:
The Web/The Net – Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Eating Pattern – Soylent Green
Woz – Queen of Outer Space
Wake the Dead – take your pick of slasher movies 😛
Twilight – night of the living dead anyone?
Supernova – Barbarella (the idea of the ‘burst of life’ reminds me very much of the chamber of death)
Nook – Brother Cadfael mysteries
Fire and Water – Mad Max
Walpurgis Night – one 70’s vampire film can’t recall off the top of my head might be ‘the vampire happening’ and title was used in a 1971 vampire film la noche de Walpurgis’I think thats one of the reasons the show works so well 😀
As there are so many references.Wake the dead and Twilight are marvellous tributes to slashers and zombie horrors, that’s true. In fact, Wake the dead is one of the very few slashers I like (this subgenre ain’t exactly my cup of tea).
That’s why I asked… Cause it seemed to me there must be tons of allusions throughout the whole series, many of them probably referring to movies and shows I do not know.
The body snatchers scheme seems so…general to me after watching tons of bad movies using similar plot…that I never perceived this as a reference. But it’s pretty obvious allusion indeed.
What I found interesting about the whole alien thing is, that these references are so specific. More like citation… Especially that scene where Stan is trying to get rid of 791. (I am almost certain, he would prefer being confronted by a xenomorph…:-))But that Nook-Brother Cadfael link is a funny (and correct) observation. never thought of it before. I like Cadfael.
It’s a pity I do not know some of those other movies you mentioned.
Wake the Dead is awesome.
I love the Halloween and Friday 13th movies.
Oh yeah the s4 idea of bad carrots – how bout David Cronenburg’s shivers anyone? thats actually phallic parasites that enter any orifice (often bottom) and turn people into sex fiends 😛 a very Lexx image 😈 but Lexx has twisted the idea a bit to have killer robotic carrorts which i thought was really funny 😀
And Little Blue Planet well reminded me of the first season of ’24’ with that Russian asassin and his personal manicurist 😛 Though I guess that could be borrowed from one of the Bond style movies….
I thought that both ‘Wake the Dead’ and ‘Twilight’ were great episodes 😛 Its nice to see Kai let loose.
I thought that both ‘Wake the Dead’ and ‘Twilight’ were great episodes Its nice to see Kai let loose.
Yes, Kai malfunctions in general are always great fun to watch.
And I think, that these eps (WtD and Twilight especially) must have been fun for MM to play in. Like a gust of a fresh air…:-)leila wrote:Woz – Queen of Outer Space
Another, more direct homage would be The Wizard of Oz. There are a LOT of parallels there.
Additionally, there’s the send-up of the whole “Women In Prison” genre of films in “P4X,” the Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator homages in “Mort,” the generalized Hammer Films influences in “Walpurgis Night” and “Vlad,” the influence of The Seventh Sign on “The Game,” the Rashomon-esque approach of “The Web” and “The Net,” the similarities between “Gondola” and Hitchcock’s Lifeboat, and on and on and on…
The Godfather– When Prince tells Bunny to hide the gun in the toilet when she is supposed to eliminate Xev and Kai.
Solaris– S3 when people (living or dead), or copies of them appear apparentely generated by the planet in some way. (This isn’t really a good example, because in S3 we find out the mechanism)
I think Quentin Tarantino directed “Prime Ridge”.
I have heard before that the S2 eps were all inspired by different films, etc. It would be interesting to put together a comprehensive list.
Well…
Wake the Dead – let’s say… Friday 13th
Twilight – Night of the living dead
Patches in the sky – Nightmare on Elm Street
791 – Alien/s (?)
I’m not sure that Brigadoom and Brigadoon have more than those eight letters in common (plus that they’re musicals), but nevertheless…There’s that scene in Twilight where Xev is snarling at the window. That’s right out of Salem’s Lot.
Also, the ship in Love Grows with the observation dome on top is right out of dark Star.
The internal workings of the planet Brunnis was very like the Forbidden Planet
And as I’ve said before ‘Woz’ is obviously paying homage to Michael Jackson’s cinematic masterpiece from 1978.
Ummmm back up. The Wiz cannot be compared with The Wizard of OZ nor any masterpiece. OK the exit from reality is the third door on the left, then the next right.
Woz is an interesting one.
The Wizard of Oz stuff is pretty damn obvious – I mean it was even going to be called ‘The Clizzards of Woz’
It is also a critique of radical feminism
And is a homage to ‘Queen of Outer Space’ (1958) with the whole terribly scarred evil queen who goes around masked thing going on.
leila wrote:The Wizard of Oz stuff is pretty damn obvious – I mean it was even going to be called ‘The Clizzards of Woz’
I dig. I just thought that the whole “791”/Alien thing was pretty obvious too, so I thought that it needed to be brought up in case anyone missed it. (BTW, while thinking of “791”, I always wondered why more hardcore US-based Euro-cult and exploitation film fans never latched onto the series, given the direct link between those genres and LEXX via this episode’s director, Jorg Buttgereit. Buttgereit, for those who aren’t familiar, created some of the most foul and nasty horror/exploitation films around, such as Nekromantik, Nekromantik II, Der Todesking and Schramm, and has a fairly large cult following in the States. Yet whenever he’s discussed on any of the boards I frequent, nobody ever brings the series up.)
And is a homage to ‘Queen of Outer Space’ (1958) with the whole terribly scarred evil queen who goes around masked thing going on.
I know — I wasn’t trying to say you were wrong (I hope you didn’t get that impression), I was just adding to what you’d said.
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