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The Goldfish is a centre for all things filmic and fanciful, taking direct inspiration from First Life 1940s blends of art deco and Hollywood cinema. The building existed outside of Extropia once under the same name in a small region of Kusanagi, Jeogeot known as Shirow Street. The design of the cinema hasn't changed much since this first incarnation, and it's the board's memories of this place which fostered the idea of transferring it to Extropia.
The cinema currently remains closed while more substantial projects are completed in the Core. When it opens in the second half February 2008 it will sport two cinema screens, facilities for multimedia presentations and a friendly bar to bring a variety of venues to the region under one roof.
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History
The Secret Goldfish is named after a particular episode of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex. In it, two short stories are told. One is of a Tachikoma gone rogue, exploring its sense of self while also helping a little girl find her dog, Locky. The tale echoes one told by J.D. Salinger of a boy who never showed his family the pet goldfish he'd bought, purely because he'd paid with his own money and didn't want to share. When the fish died, he had to maintain the lie to keep his family reassured.
The second Stand Alone Complex story pans out from this, with Major Kusanagi exploring a discarded cyberbrain that is trapping ghosts within it. When she dives in to investigate, she discovers that the brain belongs to a once-deceased film director, and has been reprogrammed as a cinema showing his greatest work on an endless loop. The cinema stands as a metaphor for those wishing to escape 'real' life and live in another man's vision.
Film Library
The Goldfish opened its film listings with Things To Come, a 1936 film written from H.G. Wells' screenplay., directed by W.C. Menzies. The royalty-free archive recording runs to ninety minutes and tells a tale of utopia rising to war and all the social issues tha come from that. This film, shot before futurism and the space race were in the wider public consciousness, epitomises a major aspect of Extropian culture. The first trailer shown in screen two was for Aeon Flux, starring Charlize Theron.
Films shown
- Things To Come (1936)
Trailers shown
- Aeon Flux (2005)
Locky's Bar
For further details, see the Locky's Bar article.
Wataru Suite
One theatre within the "Goldfish" exchanges cinema seating for a lecture format, designed for those wishing to make presentations to audiences in a one-to-many format. It is named after Kannazuki Wataru, the director whose cinema enthralled dozens of escapists in Stand Alone Complex episode 12, "Escape From"; just as the cinema itself is named after the short story within that episode.
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