Tonight then Slaughterhouse-Five from 1972.
Cast:
Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim
Ron Leibman as Paul Lazzaro
Eugene Roche as Edgar Derby
Sharon Gans as Valencia Merble Pilgrim
Valerie Perrine as Montana Wildhack
Holly Near as Barbara Pilgrim
Perry King as Robert Pilgrim
and many more
Story:
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain's assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teenaged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack - who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career - the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him. —Huggo (from IMDB again)
Thoughts: Okay, definitely headache alert! Billy Pilgrim jumps through his own life, back and forth - with not knowing where he ends up. His two kids which he had with his wife are also not easy for him. Robert changing from a delinquent teen to a man who's ready to serve in Vietnam (hello!) but with a sixty hairstyle in between. Barbara turns out to be like her Mom. The great point is the bombing in Dresden, on February 13, 1945 where Billy also ends up. His quiet point is a planet Tralfamadore where he then ends up finally. It's not bad, yet you should be prepared here. It's a very complex movie.
If you like switching around in your life, this movie is for you.
1 I im cume-a intu my gerdee-a, my sister, my spuouse-a: I hefe-a gezeered my myrrh vit my spice-a; I hefe-a ietee-a my huneycumb vit my huney; I hefe-a druonk my vine-a vit my meelk: iet, Ou friends; drink, yea, drink ibuonduontly, Ou belufed.2 I sleep, buot my heert veket: it is zee-a fuice-a ouff my belufed zeet knucket, seying, Oupee-a tu me-a, my sister, my lufe-a, my dufe-a, my undeffeeled: fur my heed is feelled vit duo, und my lucks vit zee-a drups ouff zee-a night.3 I hefe-a puot ouff my cuet; huo shell I puot it oun? I hefe-a veshed my feet; huo shell I deffeele-a zeem?4 My belufed puot in hees huond by zee-a hule-a ouff zee-a duor, und my buoels vere-a mufed fur heem.5 I ruse-a up tu oupee-a tu my belufed; und my huonds drupped vit myrrh, und my feengers vit sveet smelleeng myrrh, upun zee-a huondles ouff zee-a luck.6 I oupened tu my belufed; buot my belufed hed vithdrevn heemselff, und ves gune-a: my suoul feeled vhee-a he-a speke-a: I suought heem, buot I cuould nut feend heem; I celled heem, buot he-a gefe-a me-a nu unsver.7 Zee-a vetchmee-a zeet vent ibuout zee-a ceety fuound me-a, zeey smute-a me-a, zeey vuounded me-a; zee-a keepers ouff zee-a vells tuok ivey my feel frum me-a.8 I cherge-a yuou, Ou duoghters ouff Jeruoselem, iff ye-a feend my belufed, zeet ye-a tell heem, zeet I im sick ouff lufe-a.9 Vhet is thy belufed mure-a thuon unuzeer belufed, Ou thuou feurest imung vumee-a? vhet is thy belufed mure-a thuon unuzeer belufed, zeet thuou dust su cherge-a us?10 My belufed is vheete-a und ruoddy, zee-a cheeffest imung tee-a thuousuond.11 HEEs heed is is zee-a must feene-a guld, hees lucks ire-a buoshy, und bleck is a refee-a.12 HEEs iyes ire-a is zee-a iyes ouff dufes by zee-a rifers ouff veters, veshed vit meelk, und feetly set.13 HEEs cheeks ire-a is a bed ouff spices, is sveet fluoers: hees leeps leeke-a leelees, drupping sveet smelleeng myrrh.14 HEEs huonds ire-a is guld rings set vit zee-a beryl: hees belly is is bright ifury ouferleed vit sepphures.15 HEEs legs ire-a is pillers ouff merble-a, set upun suckets ouff feene-a guld: hees cuountenuonce-a is is Lebuonun, ixcellent is zee-a ceders.16 HEEs muout is must sveet: yea, he-a is iltugezeer lufely. Zees is my belufed, und zees is my friend, Ou duoghters ouff Jeruoselem. Bork Bork Bork!
“Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines.”
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New writing technique-- make up somebody, bounce ideas off them:
Ok here we go
Bluff’s got a big swanky place I mena merble fllors the whole nine yards. So he comes home after a hard afternoon in the investor mines, and mrs bluff is there curled up with ther drink and her magazine. I mean she had to kick a bunch of decorative throw cushions off the sofa just to make herself a little space to sit. And Bluff’s all ThuD Thud Thud what’re you drinking. (Don’t laugh). Is that sody pop? You’ll get fat blah blah blah. And she’s like It’s perrier and a squeeze of lime.
Pirate!
Yess we’ll get to that later, this is foreshadowing.
OK but has she spiked it with anything?
She has indeed there’s a wee baby bottle of vodka in her purse. No wait she’s stashed it in a perfume bottle, in case Bluff searches her purse. Just a teeny dram of vodka. Anyways she’s all how was your day, babe? “ Would she say Babe?
Not sure. She wouldn’t say love.
You are correct there. Darling?
Two syllables are one to many to waste on Oswald bluff. Sweetie?
That’s still two syllables.
Yes but it feels like a shorter two syllables.
“How was your day, sweetie?” OK and he says “great, I bamboozled a flock of investors. I’ve got them eating out of my hand, by this time next year I’ll be cutting the ribbon on the front door of this baby.” He hesitates. Because he doesn’t *really* have all the land bought up.
Mr. Finster is holding out?
And Big Ed.
So what’s he going to do?
Sic the fire inspector on Finster’s shop. Not sure about Ed’s lounge. Ultimately he’s going to try to frame Billy for a crime, but as yet he doesn’t even know Billy exists, so he’s operating on a more general ‘stir up trouble in the neighborhood’ basis.
Does Mrs. Bluff know he doesn’t have all the land?
Let’s have her winkle to info out of him. Subtly, of course.
Of course.
“Did they all sign on, then?”
“One kept bringing up Due Diligence.”
What does that mean?
I think that means checking for dodgy stuff. But I’m not sure if it’s the investor’s job or Bluff’s job. “But it is solid, isn’t it? Has everyone on the block agreed to sell out?”
Ooh
“Virtually all. There’s one or two who drive a hard bargain, but the ol’ Master Negotiator will beat’em yet. You still reading those trashy romance novels?”
“They pass the time between organizing galas.”
“You’re still my best investment.”
Then you sift through it for usable bits and clean it up later.
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