The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #125093   Message #2767675
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
17-Nov-09 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: Film: The Wicker Man
Subject: RE: Film: The Wicker Man
The Tor spirit remains unchanged, though even back in 1983 I remember the Labyrinth / Zodiac types hanging about pressing their dogma with worrying sort of righteous zeal. On one hand they were telling you about the isle of Avalon, and the next about the Glastonbury Zodiac but when you pointed out that the two ideas were logically incompatible on account of the supposed zodiac being underwater for thousands of years they looked at you as if you were from another planet. Amazing how quickly the Tor Labyrinth was accepted as fact, an attitude which fed into the whole Earth Mysteries vibe with a worrying sort of fundamentalism which put me right off the whole thing. I much prefer the cultivation terraces idea!

Here's a wee film we made back in May 2005 when they were fixing the erosion by means of a helicopter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--XmMAR4lPE

The Green Man that appears near the beginning is from St John's Church on the High Street, not far from a shop called The Goddess and the Green Man; the copy of Mercia MacDermott's Explore Green Men I bought there that day still has a faint scent of incense about it! If anyone here has heard the Plough Plays album by The Nihil Project, the music here is the basic baking track we did for Weaving Wheat which features on their Myspace Page.