Seconds

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So we are indeed talking about Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer from Paramount Pictures in 1966, starring the one, the only, Mr.

Rock Hudson.

This is our first Rock, our first film with Rock.

We talked about it last year.

Oh, my God.

How ahead of its time was that? What's amazing to me about Seconds is...

And we'll talk about what exactly the word seconds means.

What was his problem?

Well, He had a son who wrote a movie, Seconds, about faking your death with John Frankenheimer that Tim Osmond talks about.

Okay.

And his son also wrote a novel about corporate surveillance and people being monitored.

Okay, David Eli.

How do you spell his name, Lilenthal?

No, first of all, David Eli, I just, first I want to look at his, he wrote a book in 1960-something called Seconds.

Okay,

Uh, but I, I did enjoy the film, uh, but there are certain aspects that I, I do feel that it belongs to the time in which it was made.

Um, you know, I, I don't know, it, it sort of reminded me a little bit of, um, Seconds, um, with Rock Hudson, and it actually reminded me the relationship between the two women of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Even though I know that's not treated seriously, and this one obviously is.

Um, but yeah, I, um, I got swept up in the film and I wasn't thinking so much of the technical aspects, which I watched a couple of YouTube videos on it, and I notice a lot of people focus on the technicality of the film.

Um, I mean, obviously there are parts of it where that is, like, pushed into your face, but, um, I, I got swept up into the story.

It's not exactly the real world, although it feels like it for huge chunks of the film, but there's a lot of psychological imagery here.

There's some weird shit, some strange camera work that almost feels like a James Wong Howe has the camera with fisheye lens from the '60s, like in the movie Seconds from John Frankenheimer.

But you see this really bizarre world, and an actress like Helena Bonham Carter, who, I mean, she made classy period pieces, A Room with a View, movies like that.

Wings of the Dove in '97, she got an Oscar nomination.

Like, this doesn't necessarily look like Body and Soul.

Doesn't necessarily look like Seconds.

What is he doing in this film in terms of the photography?

Well, I mean, I, I think, I think, if I can speak, I guess, to the overall look of the film, which he, w- to which he contributes qui- quite a bit, I mean, y- y- you have this film that's in black and white that, that ha- that takes the shape of a film noir, uh, which it doesn't have to be.