Lindsay Anderson
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When Cash stumbles into Lift's plan to exploit workers like never before, Riley's satire enters the nightmare realm of Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man!
After a skin-crawling sequence in which Cassius is forced to “Rap! Rap! Rap!” by a roomful of drunk white partygoers, the narrative takes an O Lucky Man! -style left turn, unexpectedly recalling the cross-generic shuntings of Brian Yuzna’s seminal socio-economic comic-shocker Society .
Instead, I'd like to focus on the overall tone of the picture, which calls to mind Robocop , Time Bandits , Bamboozled , and, perhaps most clearly, O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson's fantasy about the compromises one must make with one's own principles (and the natural order itself) in order to succeed in a capitalist society.
Jump and Wheatley chose to locate the action of "High-Rise" in 1975, so their film is a retro-futurist nightmare, full of massive sideburns and shirt collars, as well as orgies and ennui freely inspired by the works of Lindsay Anderson ("O Lucky Man!"), Stanley Kubrick ("A Clockwork Orange") and Nicolas Roeg ("The Man Who Fell to Earth").
Here I was reminded of Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 feature O Lucky Man! but maybe that’s just me.
This, again, isn't new: Stanley Kubrick used this device in numerous films, most notably his debut Fear and Desire, Lolita, Dr Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Lindsay Anderson employed it throughout his picaresque masterpiece O Lucky Man!.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Directed by Edgar Wright
influenced by O Lucky Man! (1973)
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To me the film feels like what Lindsay Anderson might have made if he was a young filmmaker today - and not quite as angry as he was when he made If... and O Lucky Man!.