--- Kanna Ophelia rosemaybud@one.net.au wrote
(quoting Fiona)
As for the art: Una's right. Posters *would* have
been a cheap but effective
way of conveying a totalitarian system, and one
with which the viewer could
have immediately identified, being familiar with
contemporary Civil Defence
posters as well as with wartime propaganda posters
of all sorts around the
place. One wonders why they didn't.
Perhaps it was just too familiar?
I suspect that it was considered too familiar and not modern enough. Pity, might have made a good scene in the Way Back. Blake, appalled by the suggestion that he could ever have been involved in rebel activities, storms out of Fosters meeting, narrowly avoiding the Federation Troopers who proceed to massacre everyone there. Confused and terrified he runs off down a series of blank passages where, after turning a corner he goes catatonic with shock. The troopers find him and drag Blake away, the face on a "Wanted" poster staring impassively after him.
Stephen.
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