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philip reeve home no such thing as dragons here lies arthur goblins predator cities mortal engines predator s gold infernal devices a darkling plain fever crumb fever crumb a web of air scrivener s moon blog skip to main skip to sidebar test post posted by philip reeve at 12 00 0 comments test reeve mcintyre at the bbc posted by philip reeve at 08 55 0 comments those lovely people at scottish book trust took us all the way to sunny glasgow last week to perform our cakes in space show which bbc scotland broadcast live online you can see a recorded version here featuring all the usual nonsense and sarah s how to draw pilbeam tutorial and we ve written a full account of our scottish adventures on sarah s blog labels bbc scotland cakes in space how to draw pilbeam reeve mcintyre scottish book trust mad max fury road posted by philip reeve at 19 14 2 comments i wasn t particularly interested when i first heard about mad max fury road i ve reached that age where every other movie out of hollywood is a remake or a reboot of something that i remember from my formative years and almost all of them seem inferior to the originals but it turns out that fury road is the real deal i don t remember enjoying a sci fi action movie this much since aliens the plot would fit comfortably on a post it note i ve seen a few people on twitter saying this as if it s a bad thing it s not most films have far more plot than they know what to do with fury road has exactly as much as it needs which isn t very much at all because it s a demented punk hymn to speed and violence basically post apocalyptic warlord immortan joe keeps a harem of young wives in his desert citadel until his war rig driver furiosa decides to help them escape the rest of the film is one long chase sequence the wives predicament and furiosa s growing sympathy for them would fill the opening scenes of a lesser movie but fury road skips all that we don t meet the wives until they ve already escaped at which point joe s discovery of their empty room and a single line of graffiti fill in all the back story we need a few details of furiosa s past are sketched in later but only in passing max himself the burned out case who ends up helping the women although they don t seem to need a lot of help is even sketchier is this a sequel or a reboot we never learn where he has come from or who the ghosts that haunt him are there isn t much dialogue at all there are certainly no long speeches and the storyline is so stripped down that it would work as a silent movie like luc besson s le dernier combat another post apocalyptic punch up in which one of the things lost in the fall of civilization is the power of speech that said what dialogue there is is pretty good in beyond thunderdome max met a gang of kids whose feral upbringing had left them talking in lines from riddley walker it was an interesting idea and it s an aspect of that movie which i quite like but it did feel a bit arch somehow in the new movie there s a similar scuffed and pidgin y feel to a lot of the lines especially the ones spoken by joe s mob of warboys but it works much better the warboys are impressive in other ways too a motorcade of maniacs in crusty white face paint driven by a crackpot religion which promises them entrance to valhalla if they die historic on the fury road their main role is as filmic cannon fodder to be flung about like broken puppets as their ramshackle pursuit vehicles crash somersault and explode but we see one of them nux in more detail and he s such a goofball trying so earnestly to do the right thing according to the twisted world view he s been lumbered with that we tend to assume the others are probably like that too they re on the wrong side but they re not evil and somehow they re not just the faceless minions most movie villains send to do their dirty work even immortan joe himself a wrong un if ever there was is understandable you can see how he s built his fierce little desert kingdom and why his boys revere him the costumes and vehicle designs pack in all the detail which has been left out of the script that religion i mentioned above is basically explained by the way the warboys spray their teeth with chrome paint before they start their kamikaze runs turning their clenched teeth into radiator grilles the whole social structure of the citadel is explained in a couple of shots joe above controlling the water supply of the huddled sebastiao salgado masses below some of whom look like giant caddis fly larvae under their bizarre scrap built sun shields there s a rich seam of black humour running through the old mad max films it s buried deeper here but it still breaks the surface quite often mostly in the crazy designs the hedgehog cars the bendy pole men the bobble head bird skull thing on the hood of nux s vehicle a hatchet faced character who arrives in a sports car body attached to the top of a small tank dressed in a judge s wig and robes made out of bullets is probably the funniest thing i ve seen all year and of course joe s warband carries its own musicians with it a battletruck made of amplifiers crewed by a team of drummers and a heavy metal guitarist with a flame throwing guitar i m sure the film is stuffed with cgi but the vehicles were real as far as i could tell and you could almost smell the oil and hot metal there are only a couple of bits which ring false when the war rig and its pursuers drive into a monster sandstorm it looks incredible from the outside like a beige tsunami even once they re in the heart of it there are impressive moments an episode of whacky races reimagined by john martin but when cars start to be lifted off the ground colliding and exploding and spilling their crews it gets a bit computer gamey and loses the sense of reality the film has been building i also thought the final chase battle was cut a bit too fast at a point where it becomes important who is in which vehicle and where the vehicles are in relation to each other it all got a bit confusing and i slightly missed the broad australian accents which were such a feature of the old films this one has a more international cast and was shot in namibia rather than the outback but the desert looks great and so does the blue filtered swampland where wierdoes shamble about on stilts looking a bit like those horse bat creatures at the end of the dark crystal and it reminded me of one of the things i always liked best about the mad max movies there s a complete absence of buildings unless you count the caverns at the start most post apocalyptic stories take us into the ruins of our cities but max is much more hardcore than that in his future there is only the desert and the only shelter is in the cabins of speeding vehicles i m always telling people that i don t like violent films and tv shows but i guess what i actually object to is sadistic ones gorily sadistic ones which linger over gratuitous shots of wounds and suffering or casually sadistic ones like raiders of the lost ark where the deaths of countless extras are treated as jolly fun for all the family fury road doesn t keep slipping in grisly details for the sake of it there s very little actual gore until the climax when the big villains start getting their come uppance and even then it s cut quickly away from just minor details in the broad sweep of battle and the way it treats the cannon fodder means that the carnage is never too jokey the cars and the clothes and the exploding spears may be ridiculous but the warboys deaths have weight labels mad max fury road frankfurt posted by philip reeve at 22 40 1 comments look seawigs have reached germany here are some young rambling isles who we met last week at the european school rhein main in bad villbel near frankfurt dressler our german publisher had asked sarah mcintyre and i to go and visit some international schools to spread the word about oliver and the seawigs or schwupp und weg as it s known in those parts me stephanie mcintyre and mystery guest our main host was stephanie von selchow who is the librarian at the european school in frankfurt she d arranged for us to do two sessions there for her own students and a visiting class from the textorschule in sachsenhausen a lot of the kids had already read oliver and the seawigs so after we d talked a bit about it we went on to cakes in space which has just been published in germany as kekse im kosmos most of the audience spoke good english and it seemed to go down well of course some of the show needs no translation the bit where sarah hits me over the head with a mandolin case goes down well in any language ow that afternoon we had a quick wander around frankfurt and tried to draw some of the odd but attractive pollard linden trees which line the riverside then it was off to the goldmund restaurant at the literaturhaus where we had dinner with stephanie and some of her colleagues from esf and other schools as you can see it was very grand and the food was lovely the next morning we were picked up by manuela rossi who whirled us down the autobahn to bad villbel where we talked seawigs and cakes to some of the students of the european school rhine main utte the librarian there showed us some of the great artwork the children had produced including this fantastic tower of houses it looks a bit like a traction city from my mortal engines books best question of the day where did you get those gigantic shoes achtung gigantischeschuhen then it was back on the autobahn to yet another international school accadis in bad homburg we d met samantha malmberg and caitlin wetsch from the school at the previous night s dinner so it was good to see them in their natural surroundings and meet their students who were very excited to see us some of the classes had done whole whole projects on oliver the seawigs complete with some great drawings samantha malmberg with one of the drawings we did at accadis and the seawig sarah drew for caitlin and after that we had a little bit more time to mooch around frankfurt in the guise of mitteleuropean crime fighting duo peek cloppenburg strange things were going on in frankfurt city centre nobody seemed to be bothered by the fact that the shopping mall was being devoured by a freak wormhole while a time loop at the caketastic café im liebeighaus kept generating extra sarahs but we discovered a natty german style tardis and were able to save the day and we both found excellent covers for our forthcoming albums should we ever find time to write and record them mine is going to be icy german electronica heaven knows what sarah s is going to sound like but whatever it is it will be lovely because some things are better than perfection thanks to stephanie and to all the students staff and volunteers who helped to make our visit to frankfurt so enjoyable we were very sad to leave labels accadis cakes in space dressler verlag european school frankfurt european school rhein main frankfurt kekse i m kosmos oliver and the seawigs schwupp ind weg older posts popular posts scrivener s moon up in the north of fever crumb s world beyond the fuel country where the nomad empires roam with their herds of mammoth and reindeer a test post test mortal engines moves thanks to alex wilkinson for alerting me to this treasure from youtube an animated version of the opening sequence of mortal engin mortal engines new look new series title there are some changes coming to the world of mortal engines as of next month the original quartet will be re launched in the uk with new c remembering alien i saw prometheus last week and had intended to blog about it after all for someone of my generation a sort of prequel to alien b on tolkien and the building of worlds this is the tolkien poster i had on my bedroom wall as a boy i can t recall the artist s name the drawing is nice but star trek into darkness star trek is one of those tv programmes that i m always happy to watch while fully understanding that it s rubbish well not com mortal engines on reddit i learned last week that there is a forum or subreddit of the reddit website devoted to all things mortal engines unfortunate scrivener s moon yes folks the time has come to talk of scrivener s moon the third fever crumb book which is officially published in the uk in april in the bleak midwinter do they celebrate christmas in the ramshackle world of mortal engines well they do and they don t there are enclaves and households powered by blogger followers friends associates sarah mcintyre geraldine mccaughrean david wyatt archive 2015 25 july 2015 1 test post june 2015 1 may 2015 6 april 2015 5 march 2015 6 february 2015 2 january 2015 4 2014 46 december 2014 9 november 2014 4 october 2014 4 september 2014 1 august 2014 2 july 2014 6 june 2014 6 april 2014 3 march 2014 4 february 2014 4 january 2014 3 2013 69 december 2013 11 november 2013 3 october 2013 7 september 2013 5 august 2013 4 july 2013 5 june 2013 6 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