{"id":16406,"date":"2024-04-28T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16406"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:32:58","slug":"quantum-cowboys-2022-geoff-marslett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16406","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Cowboys (2022, Geoff Marslett)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live and\/or animated actors and props over distressed rotoed backgrounds, all talking philosophy and quantum physics, like <em>Waking Life: The Western<\/em>.  The infinite universes concept ties into the animation\/visual style changing from scene to scene, shot to shot &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t always work but it&#8217;s a big swing.  Funny unintentionally as often as on purpose, which was often enough to keep me watching.  Announces itself as Part One of The Arizona Antilogy (def: &#8220;a contradiction in terms or ideas&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/quantum1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/quantum2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Our guys are Frank and Bruno, and I can&#8217;t prove that writers Marslett and Howe Gelb meant this as a Franklin Bruno reference but I&#8217;m gonna assume so.  Frank is caught in a time-loop, robbing a store which leads to the death of singer Blackie (Gelb), and his buddy (doing a silly accent) is trying to save him from fate at the hands of killers-from-the-future (who go around the Old West claiming to have written Led Zeppelin songs), then Lily Gladstone helps them sort it all out.  There&#8217;s an interdimensional camera crew which includes Gary Farmer, plus scenes with Neko Case (the reason I&#8217;m watching) and veterans of other surreal westerns.  There&#8217;s a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2526\">Timecrimes<\/a><\/em>-ish bit, an it-was-all-a-dream bit, ends on a Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat joke.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/quantum3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/quantum4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live and\/or animated actors and props over distressed rotoed backgrounds, all talking philosophy and quantum physics, like Waking Life: The Western. The infinite universes concept ties into the animation\/visual style changing from scene to scene, shot to shot &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t always work but it&#8217;s a big swing. Funny unintentionally as often as on purpose, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,96,234,3249,3248,3010,3247,322,2439,2326,105],"class_list":["post-16406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-animation","tag-compositing","tag-gary-farmer","tag-lily-gladstone","tag-multiverse","tag-neko-case","tag-philosophy","tag-rotoscope","tag-time-loop","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16442,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions\/16442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}