Tube Tales " Steal Away"

[dakota]

I ´ve never watched Tube Tales, but i found these links in YT ( He looks so young here )

es.youtube.com/watch?v=SA_97wLVeXY


es.youtube.com/watch?v=96yGL5xITls

[Gg]

I've got to say "Steal Away" is a favorite of mine.


I'll paste a copy of the link in the other thread -- THANK YOU Dakota!

[dakota]

You are very welcome Gg ,
i tried to get it, but it´s so difficult, i can´t find it anywhere

[Jonathan]

Oct 2, 2008 22:04:17 GMT 8 dakota said:

i tried to get it, but it´s so difficult, i can´t find it anywhere

Same problem!

[vicky86]

Thanks to the website i was able to catch it on Skymovies, i would never of known it was on otherwise, same for Poldark. I made sure i Sky Plused them both! x

[jessyjellybean]

Tube tails is on sky again next thusday afternoon,Im on hoilday so will be able to watch

[vicky86]

Ive just ordered mine from play.com (I carnt wait for it to come it says there are interviews with the cast, hope Hans is on there!). Though it was through playtrade so they only have so many copies i paid a tenner for mine! x

[Gg]

Hans is in the second to last interview, just before Carmen Ejogo (if I remember correctly) -- He's in the "steal away" short, the last in the line, just after Rachel Weitz is done chasing her lost child around the tubes

[vicky86]

thanks for the info gg i carnt wait for it come, should be here any day now!x

[lolly]

I also bought Tube Tales recently I watched it last night went to the extra's section and I cant ascess it at all I wonder if that has happend to anyone here. I'm so annoyed. my dvd keeps saying error the episodes play well except the extra's.

[Gg]

mine is working just fine, so send me a little PM and let's see what's going on.

[cami]

Hi!
Can anyone propose an interpretation of steal away?
would be great

[Gg]

I am catching this at a very odd time to be reflecting on "Steal Away". It's one of my favorites, I must admit. I'm sitting here in between pieces a bit like "Tube Tales" -- independent films, series of shorts, not afraid to be spiritual/quasi-religious/message-driven. I think it's fair to say Steal Away (and much of Tube Tales) would fit very much into that context. Life and death and the consequences of being part of them, witnessing them, embracing the journey,... or not.

Seems to me, the medium is so beautifully used to NOT allow anyone to pretend that the psychology of the audience doesn't affect interpretation. SO to try to say explicitly -- "I have the authoritative opinion on Steal Away" -- is kind of ironic. But does make for interestng discussion.

But to meas SA begins, we are very much in that "True Romance" kind of experience, as Hans mentions, where they are really living out their fantasies in life, and why not, and without moral apology of any kind. Boy (Michael) sacrifices himself for the girls escape and we are immediately, knowing or otherwise, part of a purgatory experience -- or at the very least, a journey to Elysian fields (the end of the line -- C0ckfosters, perhaps). SO when the money becomes obsolete and the anti-theft dye covers them (blanketing them with their sin, so to speak) with scarlet (reminds me a bit of the Scarlett Letter really) it is as if they are marked... but in the moment of redemption on the train, when the boy washes the wounded washers feet, as the gospels are read, the lights go out and that single act has washed them of their sins...and the dye. But to them, the money is still obsolete.

And in doing so, allows the boy to get his reunion once he arrives at the fields -- and we (and the girl) realize his sacrifice, and ultimately his redemption, has brought him to the end of the perverbial journey, rather than sending him back to try to get it right (as Karma would have it), as with other of the passengers -- and quite a cast of passagers it is. SO themes of sacrifice, redemption, the irony of right and wrong and "morality", and in the end, a life lived, not without "sin", but paradoxically with an ultimate sense of integrity, some ultimate "goodness" (though "good" isn't the right word, maybe "fullness") brings joy...unity.


that's what I get from it at least.

[lynette]

Nov 18, 2008 2:41:28 GMT 8 Gg said:

I am catching this at a very odd time to be reflecting on "Steal Away". It's one of my favorites, I must admit. I'm sitting here in between pieces a bit like "Tube Tales" -- independent films, series of shorts, not afraid to be spiritual/quasi-religious/message-driven. I think it's fair to say Steal Away (and much of Tube Tales) would fit very much into that context. Life and death and the consequences of being part of them, witnessing them, embracing the journey,... or not.

Seems to me, the medium is so beautifully used to NOT allow anyone to pretend that the psychology of the audience doesn't affect interpretation. SO to try to say explicitly -- "I have the authoritative opinion on Steal Away" -- is kind of ironic. But does make for interestng discussion.

But to meas SA begins, we are very much in that "True Romance" kind of experience, as Hans mentions, where they are really living out their fantasies in life, and why not, and without moral apology of any kind. Boy (Michael) sacrifices himself for the girls escape and we are immediately, knowing or otherwise, part of a purgatory experience -- or at the very least, a journey to Elysian fields (the end of the line -- C0ckfosters, perhaps). SO when the money becomes obsolete and the anti-theft dye covers them (blanketing them with their sin, so to speak) with scarlet (reminds me a bit of the Scarlett Letter really) it is as if they are marked... but in the moment of redemption on the train, when the boy washes the wounded washers feet, as the gospels are read, the lights go out and that single act has washed them of their sins...and the dye. But to them, the money is still obsolete.

And in doing so, allows the boy to get his reunion once he arrives at the fields -- and we (and the girl) realize his sacrifice, and ultimately his redemption, has brought him to the end of the perverbial journey, rather than sending him back to try to get it right (as Karma would have it), as with other of the passengers -- and quite a cast of passagers it is. SO themes of sacrifice, redemption, the irony of right and wrong and "morality", and in the end, a life lived, not without "sin", but paradoxically with an ultimate sense of integrity, some ultimate "goodness" (though "good" isn't the right word, maybe "fullness") brings joy...unity.


that's what I get from it at least.

That you write concisely, Gg!

[Gg]

discussing film was pretty much all I did yesterday (and watching 6 in a row). Thanks. I'm not known for my "conciseness", but I hope the other people I talked to about film got that impression as well...