![]() ![]() “What? I don’t understand,” says Jim White (Roy Abramsohn), dressed only in his boxers early in the morning on the balcony of his hotel room. Even so, while Escape From Tomorrow hardly represents a direct attack on Disney, it certainly works overtime to undermine the company’s carefully controlled image of wholesome family fun, right from that opening scene with its roller coaster ride that ends in an abrupt decapitation. In the end, Disney preferred to ignore what was clearly a marginal film than to block its release through the courts, perhaps in fear of the Streisand effect. ![]() Fearful that Disney would catch wind of what was going on and send in its lawyers, Moore had the film edited (by Soojin Chung) in South Korea. Much of Moore’s film was shot guerrilla-style on location at Disney World and Disneyland, without any kind of permission or authorisation, on small digital cameras that made the crew blend in with the real tourists. Yet from its very first images of people having fun at Disney World, with the geodesic sphere of the then Siemens-sponsored Spaceship Earth visible in the background, it becomes clear that both organisations are going to be playing a prominent, albeit involuntary, role. ![]() Even if Abel Korzeniowski’s score comes with a soaringly romantic orchestral quality that conjures classic Hollywood, Escape From Tomorrow is the very opposite of a corporate or studio picture. This might seem a strange way to begin a monochrome film that is, from the outset, very obviously a low-budget indie that at times resembles – with good reason – a holiday video. Randy Moore’s feature debut opens with a textual disclaimer insisting that it is a work of fiction, and denying any involvement in its production from either the Disney Company, the Siemens Corporation, or any of their affiliates. Watch Escape from Tomorrow online in the UK: Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |