In the Court of the Crimson King (Martin Essay)

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SE-76 In the Court of the Crimson King generation continue to get ignored, and more serious problems develop. The majority of the film brings to light the political direction in which the world is headed and consequences that result (“Possibility”). Children of Men quietly references specific pop- culture images in order to visually illustrate how damaging pop-culture messages can be and to reinforce the central argument of the film, while speaking directly to the youth. During the “Court of the Crimson King” scene, Nigel spends a lot of time overlooking his “kingdom.” The industrial cityscape, including the power station smokestacks and a giant floating pig balloon, actually mirrors an album cover by Pink Floyd entitled “Animals.” The album’s concept was conceived by Roger Waters, the British Progressive-Rock band’s lead vocalist, who, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine states, “I loved Battersea Power Station as a piece of architecture, and it had good symbolic connections to Pink Floyd. It symbolized our decaying rock group.” In reference to
In the Court of the Crimson King SE-77 the floating pig from the cover, which was also displayed at shows, he says, “The pig came down in flames every night” (“Floyd’s”). The British journal, Critical Quarterly, connects similar movements heard in Leftist music in the 1960s, “the desert home of the capitalist pig is blown up . . . and we see, . . . accompanied by a spacy and sinister Pink Floyd music track, . . . the whole commodity universe of late Capitalism . . . float by” (Beverley). Fans believe that the floating pig references George Orwell’s Animal Farm however, the book criticizes the opposite type of extreme government. Animal Farm is commonly known to be a political satire on Communism; Pink Floyd’s pig criticizes the other extreme political ideologies of Neo-Fascism and Capitalism, as explained in Critical Quarterly, using a parallel illustration of animals. Analyzed in “A Revolution on Animal Farm,” V.C. Letemendia explains, “By revealing the divisions within the animal ranks, Orwell is cautioning his reader to question the animal
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