Brain vids

Last night I watched the second half of The Lady From Shanghai. It’s such an uncomfortably hot film, all the sweat running off the men’s faces, only Rita keeping her immaculate powdered cool in every close up. As ever, the big production number was the Hall of Mirrors shooting but I’d completely forgotten the aquarium sequence. A better vidder than me would remix Icebound Stream with sharks instead of polar bears in the tanks. There would be shattered mirrors and tropical heat in place of snow globes and arctic landscapes and an infinitely more bitter ending .


( This one has spoilers for the s3/29 arc of DW )