---Muntadar al-Zeidi (Great Arab Poet)
I heard somewhere that some division of the Secret Service is devoted solely to making sure that no one steals anything that has the President's DNA on it. Like a glass or tissue or something. This is insane. The Secret Service has so much money and weird technology we don't know about that it hurts my head. What could someone do with the President's DNA? Awesome stuff, mainly. You could make little mini-Prez-clones.
It made me start thinking though about a hypothetical situation that I will pose to you now:
- There is a criminal faction that has cloned you from DNA.
- There is a baby version of you that these people have basically kidnapped.
- They call you and demand millions of moneys to release baby-you or murders time.
"Fearless Vampire Killers"--- Roman Polanski comedy about vamps. Sharon Tate, Polanski, and others frolicking around in the snow together. I love watching Polanski act. He plays basically the same character as the guy from the "Tenant," a really Quiet and shy little guy. It's really charming. This movie was a little slap-sticky but I don't mind in this context. Lots of funny Eastern Europe accents and tons upon tons of snow. I liked it.
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this is very interesting. i would assume i would have an emotional connection to my clone(s) but the truth is that i suspect meeting one's clone or whatever would produce a negative response. but your hypothesis implied that you've never met your clone(s).
obviously a baby would be indistinguishable, but i imagine a clone, being raised in a totally completely different time and place with different handlers, would be pretty different. like it could be a manifestation of all your worst traits that you suppress. or even it could be a better version of you that you might resent.
what is it like when identical twins separated at birth and raised in different environments meet later in life? even then it could be argued that there would be a psychic connection from the womb that wouldn't have existed with you and your clone(s).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRqMLNrZtg4
That should answer any lingering concerns about cloning.
whoa i totally forgot about that movie! is it a lost classic? i never saw it but now i kind of want to.
Are you talking about Multiplicity or Fearless Vampire Killers? I've never seen Multiplicity, Michael Keaton in a comedic role? Ok, I guess.
the only thing i remember about multiplicity is that i saw it at 10 in the morning as the first entree in an elaborate scheme to sneak into a bunch of movies in a single day.
unfortunately, i made some gross error and my schedule was totally out of wack, which resulted in only seeing multiplicity.
the fact that ramis directed it right after groundhog day is sorta interesting, though. like weird existentialist stuff (<----i don't know if that's true) in pop culture comedies? that's a little weird, right?
alex--i was referring to multiplicity. i like fearless vampire killers though i haven't seen it in years. i just saw the tenant for the first time and i guess while polanski was playing himself in both roles, i don't recall him dressing in drag and going insane in fearless vampire killers. that was awesome. i also enjoy his brief cameo in chinatown.
mike--i think you might be right about groundhog day having an quasi-existentialist element. maybe that's why i like it so much. (would the zemeckis comedies of the 80s sort of fit vaguely in this category as well?) i think i defnitely need to see multiplicity now.
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