Complicity.

[zotz]

One of the things that matters to me about Complicity, of course, is that I was living in Edinburgh at the time it was written and set, and I saw a lot of the places as they were at the time. I drank in the Kas Bar, but now it's gone (and I never saw any trouble there until after it had been "cleaned up", although it certainly always had a very harsh reputation). I saw the sculpture of coloured marbles on the top of the Tron public gents', before it was all taken away because people kept stealing the marbles. Even the toilet under it has changed beyond recognition. The shop, in a prime and doubtless very expensive city-centre location, that only sells brushes and balls of string, is still there though. Absolutely unaltered.

The Scotsman offices (used in the film), obviously the inspiration for "The Caledonian", are no longer the home of The Scotsman, which has moved down to Holyrood, I believe. That building's a hotel now.

I did at one point start to think that there was a Curse Of Complicity, similar to the Curse Of Bladerunner. I must reread it and work out the proportions.

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[razornet.livejournal.com]

The "Curse of Blade" runner? All the places where it was filmed vanish, in time. Like tears in rain?

[zotz]

Comoanies. There are lots of adverts in the film for real companies, mostly very prominent, and often no longer with us. Coca-Cola obviously has survived, but Pan-Am hasn't. I'm sure there's a list somewhere.

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Ahh

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I seem to be on this Orkut thing now, ciurrently harvesting friends.

Just to let you know.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice the string shop in the film, when was that?

[zotz]

It's not in the film, but it is in the book.

[buca.livejournal.com]

The butchers/fishmongers is gone also...

The brush shop is obviously a CIA front....

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

We reckoned it was even bigger than that, some sort of freelance international crime fighting organisation. The castle probably flips over to reveal their launch pad.

[buca.livejournal.com]

Pioneering such famed security ops such as 'Operation Clean Sweep' and 'Operation Bristle Back'

I now have images of the castle being akin to Tracy Island

[zotz]

It used to be almost exactly under purplerabbits' bedroom, too.

Dick Dale's next week, btw. The 23rd.

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[nmg.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that there had been a film made of Complicity...

(is the kite shop still on Grassmarket?)

[zotz]

Four years ago. It didn't get a very wide release.

Yes, you can relax. The kite shop's still there.