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Daily Nebraskan St&rr Editor Mars," (especially Mick Ronson
on lead guitar) Bowie excelled in
"Ziggy Stardust" is a concert all three areas,
movie. Filmed in London in 1973, The film is 90 percent Bowie,
it took 10 years for completion Bowie close-ups singing, Bowie
when David Bowie himself pro- criss-crossing the stage in a leo
duced the final mix. It is a docu- tard that will set Danskin back 20
mentary chronicling the last con- years, Bowie backstage with his
cert Bowie performed in the make-up staff, etc. The remaining
persona of Ziggy, sort of a man 10 percent of the flick is divided
who fell to earth with a guitar, between shots of strobe-lit fe-
Ziggy was one of Bowie's first males swooning in the audience,
trips into portraying diverse char- and an occasional guitar solo by
acters from his strange imagina- Mick Ronson. Bowie has costumes,
tion. If this movie does nothing make-up, good looks, sexual an
else, it indisputably validates drogony and charismatic magic.
Bowie as the king of glitter rock, But 90 minutes might border on
that bizarre genre of music that overkill except for the die-hard
reared its purple-and-orange head Bowie fanatic,
in the early 70s. Glitter rock was The most important aspect of
music that combined outrageous the film is the fact that it is a
costumes, heavy-duty rock riffs, document of the incredible origi
and a theatrical approach to stage nality of the performer and the
performance. With the help of his fact that all this was done 11
years ago. Taken in context, the
Zigsy Stardust show was obviously
one of t he greatest rock extrava
ganzas ever assembled. The power
of the lyrics and performance
still make MTV look like sugar
candy.
A person I met in Chicago who
knows David Bowie told me that
he is a fragile kind of creature
that you want to take home and
cuddle and feed a good meal. That
may be true offstage, but as a per
former, the guy's got that special
something that only guys like
Jagger, Hendrix, and Prince gen
erate. Eleven years old or not, "Ziggy
Stardust" is a powerful statement
of originality and creative vision.
Technically, the film is sloppy.
Somehow, that doesn't matter
that much.
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Photo Courtety of 2Qth Century-Fox
David Bowie as Ziggy Stardnst.
'Dreamscape ' included in growing list of winners
Review by
Wsrd W. Triplett III
Daily Nebraskan Staff Editor
One of my fellow workers recent
ly accused me of being too kind to
many movies. "Oxford Blues" was
the latest example, a film that
apparently hasn't met with a lot
of great public opinion.
Plenty of things were going on
in "Oxford Blues" that made it a
predictable rehash of an old
theme, but nothing that really
made it a damnable excursion
into banality either. Plus, Rob
Lowe and Ally Sheedy show signs
of being good actors.
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Still, since the negatives are
more fun to write about and pick
out, here are the negative things
about "Dream scape," a science
fiction adventure about psychic
invasion of the human subcon
scious. First of all, it does not have Ally
Sheedy in it.
Second, it does have Kate Cap
shaw. She copped a lead role
here, and weak roles in "Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom"
and "Best Defense" all in one
summer. Yet "Dreamscape" proves
that she really can't act very. well.
If that's not the problem, then
her agent is going for the quantity
of roles, not quality. But who
needs awards anyway?
Third, "Dreamscape" characters
are shallow and one dimensional.
The story risks becoming a regular
boring sci-fi tale because of it.
Fourth, and most unforgivably,
the dreamscapes that make up
the most fascinating part of the
movie are too short. Then, there
are not enough of them.
Fifth, there's the problem of
toying with the facts of the script.
The mind-linkers can go into a
person's dream right after the
person falls asleep. I haven't con
tacted the sleep lab or anybody
on this, but I Ve always heard that
dreams occur right before a per
son wakes up. (That could be
explained if the characters were
going to wake up then, but the
doctors involved have to forcibly
shake the dreamers back into
reality.)
Inconsistencies in science fic
tion are nothing new, and I doubt
if a good one should leave you
time to think about intangibles
like this. But even so, with my
apologies to my co-worker, I liked
"Dreamscape" because of its orig
inal idea and special effects bom
bardment. I would recommend it
almost without reservation. But
the idea suffers when the story
bogs down to a one-on-one dream
land fight, which could have been
more imaginative.
The idea is an intriguing one
that can be taken beyond the
film. A university research team
is investigating the possibility of
reaching another person's sub
conscious through a dream- A
futuristic Frankenstein wire hock
up has been perfected by the time
the movie starts, and two psy
chics actually are capable of enter
ing a subject's mind, encounter
ing whatever may be irking that
person. They hope to destroy the
demon and make sleep peaceful
for that person again.
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