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Being an inventor is a dangerous job, you’re usually messing around with hitherto untested technology that could blow up in your face at any moment.
What with all of the unknowns, it’s pretty difficult for inventors to find any willing members of the public to test them on, meaning that they more often than not will have to be their own guinea pigs, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
Even if you survive the experimental phase, you’re not out of the woods yet. There’s always the very real a present danger that your creations could turn on you, leaving you hoisted by your own petard, as it were.
So, if you’re planning on becoming an inventor, but don’t fancy the mortality rate, make sure that you only ever invent things like “The Fluffy Safety Machine” rather than anything explode-y or weapon-y.
9. Alexander Bogdanov
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Alexander Bogdanov,...
Being an inventor is a dangerous job, you’re usually messing around with hitherto untested technology that could blow up in your face at any moment.
What with all of the unknowns, it’s pretty difficult for inventors to find any willing members of the public to test them on, meaning that they more often than not will have to be their own guinea pigs, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
Even if you survive the experimental phase, you’re not out of the woods yet. There’s always the very real a present danger that your creations could turn on you, leaving you hoisted by your own petard, as it were.
So, if you’re planning on becoming an inventor, but don’t fancy the mortality rate, make sure that you only ever invent things like “The Fluffy Safety Machine” rather than anything explode-y or weapon-y.
9. Alexander Bogdanov
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Alexander Bogdanov,...
- 9/3/2015
- by Stevie Shephard
- Obsessed with Film
Soviet state-run cinema was fast, furious and fun before the dead hand of Stalin called time on experimentation and entertainment
A fast and furious chase, full of physical gags and gangsters, with jokes at the expense of American imperialism. A hallucinatory horror, where ordinary objects take on a life of their own, scripted by a literary theorist. A bed-hopping love triangle, simmering in a cramped flat. A big-budget science fiction spectacular, full of futuristic sets and bizarre, revealing costumes. A workers' strike, depicted via special effects and pratfalls. A film about film-making itself, with no plot, no words, no narrative, which is somehow the most thrilling film you'll ever see. A film about collective farming with full-frontal nudity and inscrutable, poetic metaphors. A film about mutinous sailors that manages to accidentally invent the action film as we know it.
This is Soviet cinema in the 1920s. An almost entirely state-run cinema,...
A fast and furious chase, full of physical gags and gangsters, with jokes at the expense of American imperialism. A hallucinatory horror, where ordinary objects take on a life of their own, scripted by a literary theorist. A bed-hopping love triangle, simmering in a cramped flat. A big-budget science fiction spectacular, full of futuristic sets and bizarre, revealing costumes. A workers' strike, depicted via special effects and pratfalls. A film about film-making itself, with no plot, no words, no narrative, which is somehow the most thrilling film you'll ever see. A film about collective farming with full-frontal nudity and inscrutable, poetic metaphors. A film about mutinous sailors that manages to accidentally invent the action film as we know it.
This is Soviet cinema in the 1920s. An almost entirely state-run cinema,...
- 5/27/2011
- by Owen Hatherley
- The Guardian - Film News
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