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“Esther Williams is someone I’m obsessed with,” Barlow says.
He laughs, explaining, “I was like, ‘Argh!
Well, if you pick the human part, we’re all half-mermaid!”
Lost in sea foam
It’s a deep well to draw from.
Just for starters, confines of category (‘What is half a mermaid?')
Let’s do it.
Let’s do it.
Let’s make an interactive movie!'"
Did you, like, almost drown when you were young?'"
Rewriting history
What did we make of this movie editing nightmare at launch?
For one example, an insert shot from Minsky focusses on a hand stubbing out a cigarette.
“So often there is somebody else’s hand just being used.
Sam Barlow began his clip-wrangling genre back in 2015.
Read about it inthe making of Her Story!
The prickly voice of fictitious director John Durick snaps, “It is now.”
After a terrible accident on set kills her co-star, Marissa disappears from public life.
She re-emerges to play a double role in 1999’s Two Of Everything.
In one pivotal clip, a staged drowning very nearly becomes a real one.
Everything before this point has just been the flyleaf to all of Immortality’s layers.
What binds it all together is genre.
But having the framework of it being a genre piece, actually, is more powerful.”
First published in 1976 (yes, really), its appeal has endured for almost half a century.
But what is the V-word?
Like, is it the Virgin Mary?’
“Do we create art to have something that lives beyond us?”
Dissatisfied with certain well-worn tropes, Immortality’s is a deliberately less explicit take.
There can’t be many 14-year-olds that smoke cigarettes,’ or something.
Today, Olivia Hussey is an actress in her 70s.
This feature originally appeared in PLAY Magazine which printed its final issue in 2024.
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