Wow I just watched Das Millionenspiel. Awesome stuff.
I rated it T9...best MOM feature since Lathe of Heaven and Jana Aranya IMO. Great pick.
[spoiler]If this book wasn't a direct inspiration for Stephen King to write The Running Man, it was certainly a visual influence on the 1987 film version. The stage set ups for the TV shows are remarkably similar, and Richard Dawson's Killian was clearly modeled as a slightly more vicious and slightly less unctuous version of Das Millionenspiel's Uhlenhorst.
I also loved the show being continually interrupted by commercial breaks...all for completely useless products designed to appeal to one's vanity....all produced by the same company. Brilliant.
I agree with paulofilmo that it maybe wasn't as visually spectacular as it could have been...but how about those rainbow ballet dancers?[/spoiler]
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- Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:11 am
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- Topic: MOM October 2012
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