W HAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? 2A Thursday, October 11,1984 Daily Nexus Movie Review = T h e ■ e i H H i So what’s so funny about L.A. suburban as ‘‘victims of society,” have gone bad and white punks? They steal drugs, shoot up turned to a life of crime. Otto asked his everyone and everything in mom and pop parents for the money but, alas, the hippie liquor stores (and are too stupid to take burnouts have been brainwashed by the | anything), and steal cars with little regard Reverend of the Sacred Television set and to what’s in the trunk. Some of the more have sent the money to send Bibles to El conservative punks sport only .modified Salvador. What’s a boy to do? How could mohawks and spend their lives working Otto resist when the intense life of the Repo their way up from fry cooks to possibly Man avails itself, a life of weirdness, assistant manager in some greasy violence, legalized stealing and am­ hashhouse. And others become Repo men. phetamines? This is the story of one such frustrated, Excess is everywhere. “ Generic” is misguided big city youth. slapped on everything, including the labels Repo Man is a bizarre film that bends of all manufactured goods that repetitively I over backwards in attempts for laughs and, appear, the recurring everyday motifs, and I although a low budget non-Hollywood the various stereotypes of people. project, is one of the funniest films of the Everything generic is a mockery of itself: j year and destined to become a cult-classic. the can of generic food is marked “ Food” . Micheál Nesmith (remember the The people are also .mockeries of them­ Monkees?) produced this film starring selves: the repo men are typical hardened Emilio Estevez (son of Sheen). old men who have gone a bit looney in their Repo Man finds its humor in the absurdity years of survival in the city; the punks are of normality, yet deviates from all Big visioned as upper middle suburban parents film—Big star rules for success. The fact must view them (imagine how they’d ap­ that no commercial expectations were pear on a show like “ CHiPs” ) ; the Chicano imposed gave the film the freedom to low-riders have big, fuzzy dice hanging rampage everything the American church­ from the mirror and wear hair nets. And the going consumer holds sacred and fabricate inventor of the neutron bomb has had a a comedy of the excess. lobotomy and is destined to drive a Chevy | Otto is frustrated. His job at the super­ Malibu with dead but lethal aliens in the of Dr. Strangelove, and so on.... What makes settle down because “ I don’t know why, it market didn’t pan out. His stereotypical back. these genres so amusing is the periodic just seems like the thing to do, I guess” punked-out friends who adorn themselves There also appear the generic undercover escape from their stereotypical straight- before heisting a pharmaceutical company. with the fashionable ripped attire CIA men, blondes in dark suits and jackets, which perhaps serve as a reminder Repo Man also mocks the typical movie (remember what it did for Jennifer Beales) mirrored sunglasses, who go around to those in the audience who are little behind ploys. We see the car chases every other and the typical Christian iconism (crosses wearing pre-senilic hearing devices and the times that NO, people don’t really act scene, and the violence...there is so much and such) are too insensitive, I mean they nodding to each other meaningfully. The this way, so stop sweating. Not too many that it’s almost laughable. When someone show affection via slam-dancing. 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It’s character’s created a real fantasy for adults, an showing their pleasure in a spell of applause. UCSB Man's Tennis Taam impression that lasted throughout the night. The Canadian Props were minimum and background was nonexistent in Present Puppeteers dressed in black while manipulating the large this production emphasizing the action of the puppet fan­ THE UCSB puppets together with a prerecorded sound track including tasy. Black lights were used making the puppets glow in a music, sounds, and voices mystical way. This T E N N IS C H A M P IO N S H IP that characterized the technique worked amazingly OPEN TO STUDENTS, FACULTY Er STAFF “ cast” as much as their well with Smaug, the giant EVENTS: A-B MEN'S and WOMEN'S SINGLES supernatural appearance. dragon, who seemed to fly AND DOUBLES: C-D MEN'S and The puppets ranged from around the stage with it’s 15- WOMEN'S SINGLES AND DOUBLES. DATES: OCTOBER 19,20,21 four to ten feet in height and foot wing span. TIMES: PLAY WILL BEGIN FRIDAY AF­ After the show the were controlled by one or TERNOON. more of the five puppeteers. audience was invited up to COST: ♦8.00 FOR SINGLES, $14.00 FOR It was often hard to believe the stage to meet the pup­ DOUBLES that there were only five peteers and to view the SCOR IN G: 2 O U T OF 3 SETS NO ADD SCORING people behind the scenes of puppets closer. What a TIERBREAKER: 12 POINT TIERBREAKER A T 6 ALL such animation and action. disillusionment it was to see BAUS: WILSON TENNIS BALLS PROVIDED. The illusions created on the that fantastic airborn LOCATION: MAIN TOURNAMENT DESK AT stage that evening were a dragon just lying in a pile off STADIUM COURTS AWARDS: wonderful return to the stage! Most of the puppets TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP unlimited images of looked worn and much less IN ALL EVENTS everyone’s childhood complex than when they ELIGIBILITY: UCSB MEN'S AND WOMEN'S imagination. were under the control of the TENNIS TEAM S ARE NOT ELIGIBLE. The show was based on J. puppeteers. It was as though YOU W IU BE NOTIFIED OF YOUR R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy these were only the skeletons S TA R TIN G TIM E S where the hospitable of the life that was shown on homebody, Bilbo Baggins is stage just minutes before. NAME -HOME PH_ taken, almost unwillingly, on The curious, scientific mind an adventure to recover the of the adult often has to know I ADDRESS _________ -CAMPUS PH_ treasure of the dwarfs. just how an illusion was ! DOUBLES PARTNER Dining the adventure Bilbo made. In this case I should SINGLES $8 DOUBLES $14 ■ has to tangle with trolls, have left my curiosity I MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: MEN’S □ SINGLES □ ! spiders, a gangly, comical behind and kept with me the I U C SB M E N 'S TE N N IS WOMEN'S □ cave dweller and ultimately world of fantasy that the I MAIL OR BRING ENTRIES TO: A-B □ DOUBLES □ ! the monsterous Smaiig, the dragon hording the treasure of Theatre Sans Fil had so carefully and amazingly presented I U C S B M E N 'S TE N N IS C-DD the dwarfs. Bilbo, without previous knowledge of what this that magical night at Campbell Hall. I S A N TA BARBARA , C A .