Welcome to the social design: loose lessons from the stylized representation of the social in cinema and print. A blog very often about the interior design, fashion, social manners, and music created for and reflected in vintage cinema and print. Especially from the Sixties and Seventies, especially Italian, and especially from swingin' party scenes. We're awfully big on disco hippies and the OpArt accent here. Guaranteed, of course, to wander off on the occasional tangent into (maybe?) related subject matter, with plenty of tongue-in-cheek commentary for your consideration along the way. Comments are welcome, so please consider yourself invited...


Thursday, January 13, 2011

DISCOTHEQUE SCENE FROM "MANON 70" (1968)








# 5:  THE GROOVY SCENE IS ACTUALLY QUITE MATHEMATICAL .



In film as in reality, a good disco scene brings together different atmospheric components to create a whole far more happening than the sum of its parts. Let's do the math for 1968's "Manon 70" :


      trippy, psychedelic dance track

 +   Asian woman in risqué see-through top

 +   woman with a Poodle

 +   jaded French smokers

 +   Catherine Deneuve in Emmanuel Ungaro couture

 +   a Nehru jacket

 +   the intrigued millionaire

 +   whirling, swirling ambiguously same-sexed dance couples
                                                                                        

 =  the happening whole



The song featured in this scene is "New Délire" by Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier, available on the soundtrack album to the film "Manon 70".
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