Sunday, June 9, 2013

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fans should watch The Turin Horse


Saban's great first live action superhero franchise Mighty Morphin Power Rangers has some resemblances to Bela Tarr's final cinematic piece the Turin Horse . It is a repeated use of repeated footage from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, especially for the Pudgy Pig and reused Machiko Soga footage.
Bela Tarr's final piece, The Turin Horse is very methodical. It has a message about Nietszche which I did not get watching it at press screenings from the Walter Reade Theatre twice. However, I did observe the realism through repetition in the film however. It is sort of beautiful in its mundane manner.
The everyday life of farmers forced to eat potatoes to survive in a storm they will probably not survive in, the same fate of those monsters who are too stupid to say, "F*** you, Lord Zedd. I'm not fighting the Power Rangers. They're motherf***ing gonna kill me. What ya have to say about that? I'm forming a union with all the other monsters against these terrible conditions!"
It is not to say that Power Rangers is surreal, but that the Turin Horse is modern, whereas the Power Rangers is possibly a variation of the post-post-modern group, being all mass appealish opposed to dystopian film niche copying and pasting materials, crew and footage.
Furthermore, both media have a certain method to their repetition, and their audiences and fans have appreciated it.

Power Rangers:
Go Go Power Rangers
School scene
Rita scene
Power Rangers vs Putties
Japanese footage

Turin Horse:
Go outside
Put on clothes
Eat potatoes
Light the lamps
Blow out the lamps

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