Any possibility of chess in the afterlife?any ideas?suggestions?

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ivandh

I still can't help but feel like you are bsing the whole thing, eschewing any kind of concrete example of demonstrable nuance in favor of a thick layering of superlatives which have meaning primarily within the lexicons of film majors, while derisively dismissing any suggestion of fallibility. If it is an act it is a truly remarkable performance.

theoreticalboy

Nuance?  For House?  Now you're really being silly Laughing

Watch it again, and with fresh eyes.  House piles up cinematic tricks and plenty of them look dated to modern eyes, but I bet you still had a raucous time watching it, and I bet you were far more impressed with its imagination than you are letting on.  Maybe more than you really realised.

 

(and by the way, you're being entirely unfair, since only my first post could be described as layering superlatives, and only that because I was so happy to be thinking of House again)

konhidras

My nose is bleeding...

johnmusacha
konhidras wrote:

My nose is bleeding...

Hahaha!  I thought it was hard to get that stuff into Asia!

konhidras
johnmusacha wrote:
konhidras wrote:

My nose is bleeding...

Hahaha!  I thought it was hard to get that stuff into Asia!

Haha not if youre a mixed asian

theoreticalboy

It's probably silly to ask for any detailed analysis of a part of House, anyway; like Vertov in Man With a Movie Camera, almost everything conceivable is tried, and it all hangs together by virtue of its excess.  If it were a movie with ordinary plotting and then just one scene where a piano eats a girl, it would be bad, but House goes all out and never stops (the reference to Argento in another trailer I watched makes sense in that the imagination to the visuals is similar, but Argento was never quite so gleefully bizarre as this).

At every point the movie tries to outdo itself.  It doesn't need to be concerned with making linear sense (though in the end it does do that, and like I said there is interesting meditation on stereotyped feminine roles and the sucking chasm of domesticity contained within it: note the order in which the characters die), it only wants to exist and create anew, to make another startling, surreal image.  In this it is an unambiguous triumph, and this is how I feel the movie ought to be judged.

johnmusacha

Wait, is this "House" movie from 1986?

theoreticalboy

No, it's a Japanese movie from 1977.  We should probably be calling it Hausu to avoid confusion, but that negates the chance to shout "HOUSE!" like in the trailer.

ponz111

No chance of chess in the afterlife.

konhidras
ponz111 wrote:

No chance of chess in the afterlife.

Wait till you get there pop.Smile

AndyClifton

I still don't understand a word tb says about movies.

RichColorado

God would not want to play anyone a game of chess since he would already know the results.

 


konhidras

Darn im getting dizzy.

Here_Is_Plenty

Interesting OP question.  Another query came to me reflexively when I read it though:  which afterlife?  In the Christian mythos at least, there would be Heaven, Hell and Limbo.  You could make a reasonable case for any one of these for chess, as we all probably know to our own personal pain.

johnmusacha

Yes, in hell the devil opens with 1.d4.

AndyClifton

The devil copies every move you make.  And he wins.

RichColorado
johnmusacha wrote:

Yes, in hell the devil opens with 1.d4.

Why does the devil get white?

Changu

Yap,i stress again,God wudnt play us,not on the same level!angels perhaps we cud fight it out.in hell chess?i dnt knw?doubt it,jus fire and brimstone!the devil as a chessplayer..now thats a concept.

onthehouse

Only conjecture, but if we play chess in the after life perhaps it will be eleven dimensional String Chess.

konhidras

From the Beatles song: "Turn up your mind relax and float downstream, it is not dying..it is not dying....So you can see the meaning of within...our beginning ..our beginning.