Sunday, December 26, 2004
The Incredibles: Best Film of 1972
People just stair at me like I have grown another head every time I mention the time setting for the Incredibles.
Maybe it is because the Incredibles is not really a period piece even if it is set in 1972 or 1973? You did`t catch that? Missed the year somehow? You`re not alone.
Thunderhead dies in a cape related accident in 1958, Thunderhead was at the wedding of Bob and Helen Parr, in costume, therefore their wedding happened before 1958. Dead heroes don`t show up at weddings that often. Add 15 years and we are in the early 70`s. Prime superhero comic book time!
Still don`t believe me? Just look at the cars, the furniture, the High Karate used by Frozone. Do they still make High Karate? But somehow everybody misses the fact that the movie takes place in 1972 not 2004.
Maybe it is because the film is filmed like a current movie not a period piece? Maybe it is because the characters are stylized to the point that they become archetypes as every true superhero and Villain should? Maybe it is all the modern comic book devices used by the heroes and villains? It might just be a combination of all of these factors?
Somehow there is something timeless about this film that sets it outside space and time to the point that people just miss the 1972 time setting completely. When a filmmaker can put it right out there, music and all, and nobody can see it there is something really magic going on in the filmmaking process.
Is it important to the story that the Incredibles is set in the silver age of comic book heroes? No, not at all. What is important is the filmmaking magic that makes everybody miss that fact.
What I want to know, and tried to ask the last time Brad was in town, is did he do this on purpose? Did he set out to hide the time period in plan site or did it just happen? On that question hangs just how incredible his talent really is as a master magician of the modern cinema?
Incredibles 70`s Cars ¶ 9:10 AM
Maybe it is because the Incredibles is not really a period piece even if it is set in 1972 or 1973? You did`t catch that? Missed the year somehow? You`re not alone.
Thunderhead dies in a cape related accident in 1958, Thunderhead was at the wedding of Bob and Helen Parr, in costume, therefore their wedding happened before 1958. Dead heroes don`t show up at weddings that often. Add 15 years and we are in the early 70`s. Prime superhero comic book time!
Still don`t believe me? Just look at the cars, the furniture, the High Karate used by Frozone. Do they still make High Karate? But somehow everybody misses the fact that the movie takes place in 1972 not 2004.
Maybe it is because the film is filmed like a current movie not a period piece? Maybe it is because the characters are stylized to the point that they become archetypes as every true superhero and Villain should? Maybe it is all the modern comic book devices used by the heroes and villains? It might just be a combination of all of these factors?
Somehow there is something timeless about this film that sets it outside space and time to the point that people just miss the 1972 time setting completely. When a filmmaker can put it right out there, music and all, and nobody can see it there is something really magic going on in the filmmaking process.
Is it important to the story that the Incredibles is set in the silver age of comic book heroes? No, not at all. What is important is the filmmaking magic that makes everybody miss that fact.
What I want to know, and tried to ask the last time Brad was in town, is did he do this on purpose? Did he set out to hide the time period in plan site or did it just happen? On that question hangs just how incredible his talent really is as a master magician of the modern cinema?
Incredibles 70`s Cars ¶ 9:10 AM
