Let’s meet the performers of D20 Burlesque’s show tonight by finding out their favorite dystopian or post apocalyptic books and movies! Today we give you a few little treats to whet you appetite before the show tonight.
Anja Keister, founder/co-producer and birthday girl tonight, tells us her favorites:
Fav Movie: I am tempted to say Hell Comes to Frogtown, but I never made it to the end so it seems unfair to give it the prize title. This is genre is my favorite, so I am stuck between many favorites (12 Monkeys, Children of Men, 2081) but will have to go with a much loved and often watched classic of my film library: Gattaca. There are many reasons why I love this movie, including its beautiful soundtrack, striking cinematography, great acting, but the main reason I love it is the fact that is seems just at the cusp of happening. Messing with genetics is something we are currently already able to do, so this movie’s world seems quite within reach. Also, I love the timelessness of the film. Many futuristic and dystopian films will try to look impressive with their idea of what the future will look like. Gattaca conveys this future, but in a classic, almost old school hollywood glamour feel, mixing the strange with the beautiful.
Fav. Book: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I luckily was assigned this book for an Dystopian Literature class I took in college, and it blew my mind. Atwood is so skilled at speculative future writing and the world she created is so intricate and believable I found myself stopping to really sit and appreciate how well it was done. My favorite part though was that I was reading it a few years after it’s publication, and some of the twisted aspects she had speculated about the internet had already happened. It was profoundly chilling and amazing at the same time. Getting the read the companion, The Year of the Flood, made me so happy and was just as exciting!
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