Today's IMDb Daily Poll asks an intriguing question: which filmmaker's work most deserves its own theme park? "Deserves" is probably the wrong word choice, but I got to thinking about which directors' oeuvres are most suited to a theme park. Cinephiles and thrill-seekers alike, rejoice!
Steven Spielberg
Main attraction: By my count, at least four Spielberg films have been adapted into actual theme park attractions. But none of them compare to the thrill of the Minority Report Tilt-A-Whirl, which boasts consistently short lines because anyone who even thinks about riding it is preemptively arrested.
Martin Scorsese
Main attraction: Travis Bickle's Taxi Ride. An animatronic Bickle guides you through the seedy underbelly of a small-scale New York. Hopping out and providing guidance to the various underage prostitues scattered about is encouraged.
Steven Soderbergh
Main attraction: It's hard to say...all the rides are so different...are you sure this is all the same park?
Federico Fellini
Main attraction: The 8 1/2 Coaster. Enjoy the delightful Nino Rota music in the background and pay no attention to the fact that they're building the coaster as you ride it.
Quentin Tarantino
Main attraction: Quentin's Scrambler. The ride itself is an homage to this obscure underground Scrambler that Tarantino rode once in Japan.
Christopher Nolan
Main attraction: Inception Teacups. You're spinning around in a teacup...which is inside a bigger teacup...inside a bigger teacup...
Lars von Trier
Main attraction: Lars' Freefall. It's an excruciating descent into the ground and upon impact, everybody dies.
Robert Altman
Main attraction: Altman's Bumper Cars. Up to 30 people can ride it at once, frequently crisscrossing and interacting.
The Coens
Main attraction: Rooster Cogburn's Wild West Show. With a script completely devoid of contractions!
Woody Allen
Main attraction: Woody's Wooden Kiddie Coaster. See, it's small cuz uh, I get indigestion and the scary rides remind me of my mortality, ya know? JEW already go on it?
Alfred Hitchcock
Main attraction: Hitchcock is the most obvious candidate for his own theme park - where to begin? Get soaked on Marion Crane's Psycho Shower Water Ride. Swing on the Lifeboat Pirate Ship. See the whole park from the Strangers on a Train Miniature Railway (comes with one free murder of your choice), or L.B. Jeffries' Observation Deck. There also used to be a Vertigo roller coaster, which has since been torn down and replaced. Butif they just gave it a new coat of paint, it'd be a dead ringer for the old one...
Stanley Kubrick
Main attraction: Humbert Humbert's Carousel. You must be less than this tall to ride.
What auteur amusement parks would you like to see?
2 comments:
Nice!
I'm signing up for the David Lynch park. There are some little cars you can drive down a highway and around on Hollywood streets, and houses you can sneak into and watch strange stuff happening there.There's a sideshow with an Elvis impersonator and a guy with a head like an eraser.
I'm with joem18b, a Lynch experience like in Eraserhead and Blue velvet would be really weird and cool( for a while anyway!)
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