Post by B on Aug 31, 2010 3:57:35 GMT -5
Is Bubbahotep "Photos multimedia or links that are PID related"?
I have to wonder. I've never seen the movie, so personally it's hard to judge for content,
but as for the plot, which I heard about in a discussion over the weekend, it set off bells in my head!
<----"You know the legend. Now learn the truth."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Ho-tep
"Bubba Ho-tep is a 2002 black comedy film starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley -
now a resident in a nursing home. The film version also stars Ossie Davis as Jack, a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy (explaining that he was patched up after the assassination in Dallas, dyed black, and abandoned by Lyndon Johnson). The film was directed by Don Coscarelli. The title comes from a novella by Joe R. Lansdale which originally appeared in the anthology The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem...."
"...While the novella and film revolve around an Ancient Egyptian mummy ... terrorizing a retirement home, Bubba Ho-tep also involves the deeper theme of aging and growing old in a culture that values only the young...."
Plot (spoiler alert)
"During the 1970s, when Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) grew tired of the demands of his fame, he switched places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff (also played by Campbell). It was Haff who eventually died in 1977, while the real Elvis lived in quiet, happy anonymity and made a living pretending to be himself. After a propane explosion destroyed documentation which was the only proof that he was actually Elvis Presley, he was rendered unable to return to his old lifestyle.
(After Haff's well-publicized death in 1977, Elvis does Elvis impersonator shows. LB)
A hip injury during a performance causes him to get an infection and slip into a coma. Twenty years later, in an East Texas nursing home as the movie opens, he is contemplating his age, frailty, loss of dignity, impotence....
Elvis's only friend is a black man named Jack (Ossie Davis) who insists he is President John F. Kennedy, claiming to have been dyed black after the assassination attempt, and abandoned in a nursing home....
Most of the film's plot is driven by Elvis' internal monologue, as he reminisces about his life and ponders his condition.
Eventually, Elvis and Jack face off against a re-animated ancient Egyptian mummy that was stolen during a U.S. museum tour and then lost during a severe storm in East Texas when the bus being driven by the thieves veers off the road and into a river near the nursing home. The mummy strangely takes on the garb of a cowboy and is dubbed Bubba Ho-Tep by Elvis who is given a telepathic flashback of the mummy's life and death when he looks into its eyes following its murder of an elderly woman at the home. The slow, plodding mummy is a real and credible threat, as instead of going against young adults who could potentially outrun it, the mummy gives chase to the elderly heroes who lack mobility and need a motorized wheelchair and a walker to get around the grounds.
After hatching an elaborate plan Elvis and Jack manage to destroy the mummy, and the trapped souls of their dead friends appear to be released to their final resting place. In the process of defeating the mummy, Elvis and Jack are themselves mortally wounded. Since much of the film establishes the protagonists as pathetic and even insane, their deaths are portrayed as especially heroic and honorable. As he lies near the river dying, Elvis gets confirmation that his soul is prepared to move on as he looks up into the stars and sees the message "ALL IS WELL" spelled out in Egyptian hieroglyphs..."
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xp49RBr65E
my comments:
Anyone who has spent any time here knows the discussions we've had that there appears
to be a connection of the Scarab beetles of Ancient Egypt who "pushed the sun
through the sky" and "The Beatles", whose US album covers 'pushed' Solar imagery:
a squared sun
as well as the whole Faul/Paul/Osiris/Horus (and possibly RAMses) links.
Iamaphoney has included a sarcophagus image in one of his videos as well.
The fact that the replacement Elvis is named "Sebastian Haff " is interesting. It may hearken back
to "I'm not half the man I used to be", with Sebastian hearkening to Johann Sebastian Bach,
suggesting a competent composer of music.
I have to wonder. I've never seen the movie, so personally it's hard to judge for content,
but as for the plot, which I heard about in a discussion over the weekend, it set off bells in my head!
<----"You know the legend. Now learn the truth."en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_Ho-tep
"Bubba Ho-tep is a 2002 black comedy film starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley -
now a resident in a nursing home. The film version also stars Ossie Davis as Jack, a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy (explaining that he was patched up after the assassination in Dallas, dyed black, and abandoned by Lyndon Johnson). The film was directed by Don Coscarelli. The title comes from a novella by Joe R. Lansdale which originally appeared in the anthology The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem...."
"...While the novella and film revolve around an Ancient Egyptian mummy ... terrorizing a retirement home, Bubba Ho-tep also involves the deeper theme of aging and growing old in a culture that values only the young...."
Plot (spoiler alert)
"During the 1970s, when Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) grew tired of the demands of his fame, he switched places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff (also played by Campbell). It was Haff who eventually died in 1977, while the real Elvis lived in quiet, happy anonymity and made a living pretending to be himself. After a propane explosion destroyed documentation which was the only proof that he was actually Elvis Presley, he was rendered unable to return to his old lifestyle.
(After Haff's well-publicized death in 1977, Elvis does Elvis impersonator shows. LB)
A hip injury during a performance causes him to get an infection and slip into a coma. Twenty years later, in an East Texas nursing home as the movie opens, he is contemplating his age, frailty, loss of dignity, impotence....
Elvis's only friend is a black man named Jack (Ossie Davis) who insists he is President John F. Kennedy, claiming to have been dyed black after the assassination attempt, and abandoned in a nursing home....
Most of the film's plot is driven by Elvis' internal monologue, as he reminisces about his life and ponders his condition.
Eventually, Elvis and Jack face off against a re-animated ancient Egyptian mummy that was stolen during a U.S. museum tour and then lost during a severe storm in East Texas when the bus being driven by the thieves veers off the road and into a river near the nursing home. The mummy strangely takes on the garb of a cowboy and is dubbed Bubba Ho-Tep by Elvis who is given a telepathic flashback of the mummy's life and death when he looks into its eyes following its murder of an elderly woman at the home. The slow, plodding mummy is a real and credible threat, as instead of going against young adults who could potentially outrun it, the mummy gives chase to the elderly heroes who lack mobility and need a motorized wheelchair and a walker to get around the grounds.
After hatching an elaborate plan Elvis and Jack manage to destroy the mummy, and the trapped souls of their dead friends appear to be released to their final resting place. In the process of defeating the mummy, Elvis and Jack are themselves mortally wounded. Since much of the film establishes the protagonists as pathetic and even insane, their deaths are portrayed as especially heroic and honorable. As he lies near the river dying, Elvis gets confirmation that his soul is prepared to move on as he looks up into the stars and sees the message "ALL IS WELL" spelled out in Egyptian hieroglyphs..."
--------------
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xp49RBr65E
my comments:
Anyone who has spent any time here knows the discussions we've had that there appears
to be a connection of the Scarab beetles of Ancient Egypt who "pushed the sun
through the sky" and "The Beatles", whose US album covers 'pushed' Solar imagery:
a squared sun
as well as the whole Faul/Paul/Osiris/Horus (and possibly RAMses) links.
Iamaphoney has included a sarcophagus image in one of his videos as well.
The fact that the replacement Elvis is named "Sebastian Haff " is interesting. It may hearken back
to "I'm not half the man I used to be", with Sebastian hearkening to Johann Sebastian Bach,
suggesting a competent composer of music.
