FILM 1563: HIGH-RISE
TRIVIA: High-Rise (2015) has been
a stalled passion project for producer Jeremy Thomas for decades.
It was once deemed "unfilmable."
The film includes two
interpretations of the ABBA song "SOS" - one by the film's composer
Clint Mansell and the other by Portishead. "SOS" was released in
1975. The same year as the novel "High-Rise" JG Ballard.
Elizabeth Moss said that
the most difficult thing for her when preparing for High-Rise (2015) was to
speak in a convincing British accent since she was American.
In the opening shot of the movie,
Laing is using a record player. It is a very special, very rare player known as
a Transcriptors Reference Turntable, and the same owned by Alex in A Clockwork
Orange (arguably made famous by this feature). This is likely another homage to
that film.
While it never directly says so,
the film's time period is obviously set in the 1970's. There are no cell
phones, iPads, Internet and the like. But there is a lot of cigarette smoking
in areas that are forbidden in 2016 such as in doctor's office and around
children, and the clothes,vehicles and everyday items were very common in that
time period.
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