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“Joey” to Battle Nazi Occultists
This strikes me as a superbly bizarre combination: Matt LeBlanc (”Joey” from Friends, and the epynonymous tv show) is going to be in a movie about Nazi occultists. Or some shit. Check out this blurb from the Guardian:
Joey is moving into the film production business: former Friends star Matt LeBlanc is producing a sci-fi horror movie set in the second world war. The Watch, which will be directed by Victor Salva of Jeepers Creepers fame, is about a team of elite soldiers sent to blow up a German fuel depot who become the target of an evil spirit unleashed by Nazi occult experiments.
Oh wait, my bad. He’s producing not acting. That’s good, I guess. Still, it strikes me as really weird. I guess it just shows how goddamned much everybody is fascinated by Nazi magic and their interest in the occult.
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November 4th, 2005 at 9:02 pm
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November 4th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
It all makes me wonder if the TV show Friends might not have been some kind of crypto-Nazi propaganda world-destroyer…
November 4th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
Victor Salva directed that movie “Powder” also. But he is probably better known for being a convicted child molester.
November 6th, 2005 at 5:29 am
It’d be nice if they were sufficiently interested in the subject to make a good movie out of it. This reeks of bad cheese, however.
That blurb only says LeBlanc’s producing the film. It doesn’t say he’s not going to be in it, and I’ll be very surprised if he’s not on screen. It’s not entirely news, either: Victor Salva’s IMDB entry lists the film as a 2004 production, although it has next to no other details, so I’m thinking the film was announced back then but never made/released and no one’s updated the IMDB entry for the film. Looks like it’s going ahead now, anyway, if it didn’t back then.
November 6th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
“everybody is fascinated by Nazi magic and their interest in the occult”
Well the use of symbolism was pretty hardcore, and they were snappy dressers. Oh yeah, and evil incarnate, so that’s just story potential. Seriously, you put Charles Manson in a dark suit with enamel glyphs on the lapels, and he’d make a comeback.
November 6th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Yeah that’s a good call. There’s such heavy symbolism attached to them that it functions in the way symbols are meant to: as creative/destructive forces transforming psychic energy and unleashing possibilities. Actually, it’s hard for me to really think of a modern symbol that’s as powerful as Nazism
November 7th, 2005 at 3:58 am
I guess what’s bothered me about the nearly sole focus on Nazis and the occult is that the Czechs, British, and Americans all began to adopt “paranormal” methosd to counter each other during the World War era. Yet the apparent taboo around such matters churns out media focusing on the “baddies,” thus furthering the plight of such mediums.
Also, there was/is apparently a university in Ukraine with an entire department devoted to the study of the paranormal and such, set up under the USSR, I believe. Yet no good or bad contrasts are ever made.
In popular culture’s eyes, there seems to be good Christian soldiers and evil Nazi empires (who may or may not be aided by those nefariously dark Asians at times). Argh!
Though we all enjoyed a good Indiana Jones or Castle Wolfenstein in our time…