[conspire] democratic society ... _The_Prisoner_ (Re: Federales in Portland?)

[Ruben Safir]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:15:50AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> 
> > It is all wrong.  The core attribute for a people to live in a Democracy
> > is tolerance of things, and people you don't agree with or like.
> 
> You really, really need to watch all of the 1967 'The Prisoner', in all
> of its surreal, maddening, mostly timeless but 1960s-rooted glory.  And
> Nick just gave you a great gift: knowledge of where to watch pristine,
> high quality sets of all 17 episodes, for free.
> 

I have it on my hard drive and know it well.  

> We'll eventually talk you into watching them.  By hook or by crook, we
> will.
> 

We have actually talked about the Prisioner, and the very strange last
episode.

I was thinking just last week how NYC feels now very much like the
Village.

> Currently re-watching one of the quite surreal ones, 'A, B, and C',
> particularly to admire how Ron Grainer's theme music resurfaces
> in different forms repeatedly at the dream party, as things get more and
> more out of control.
> 
> One starts to notice production glitches like, when Number 6 is (in his
> first dream) kidnapped from the Paris party in a Citroen Deux-Cheveau, 
> the steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.  (Because this was 
> ITV, and thus shot in Wales with faux foreigners and faux-foreign
> everything.)
> 
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