Movie Gadget Friday: The Orgasmatron from Sleeper
posted Nov 19th 2004 4:52PM
Last week Josie Fraser checked out the cursed video tape from The Ring films, for this week's installment of Movie Gadget Friday she writes about the orgasmatron from Sleeper:
I'm not a great fan of slapstick or of Woody Allen, but no movie gadget series would be complete without the inclusion of the orgasmatron – the made-up gadget which has caught the publics imagination like no other, and continues to represent an imaginary benchmark for 'marital aids'. Sleeper, released in 1973, and typically loaded with the obsessions and neurosis of the time, is not such a bad film when you consider the competition in Comedy Sci-Fi – a genre that contains some of the worst excrement ever committed to celluloid.
Allen plays Miles Monro, independent health-food shop owner, who is cryogenically frozen (with the help of tin foil)
following a hashed operation on an ulcer. He is revived in 2173 to find himself the only untagged citizen in a
totalitarian state, filled with robot dogs and gigantic fruit. Escaping from both the police and the resistance, he
ends up posing as a robotic servant in the home of middle class conformist Luna Schlosser (played by Diane Keaton).
Luna introduces us to the technologies keeping the nation in a content obedience: The orb, basically a round ball that
you stroke to feel like you’re on heroin, and the orgasmatron. The orgasmatron has a fairly self-explanatory title, but
for those of you who haven’t seen the film, it’s like a white sarcophagus version of those automated public toilets,
and can ‘accommodate’ multiple partners. Sexual ecstasy is only a click away without the need for any messy physical
contact.
It could be argued that the real world response to the challenge of the orgasmatron has been the internet. Aside from
that vibrators have one of the longest and most interesting development
histories of any technology, and are becoming
ever more sophisticated.
Those of you following the creepiest computer voice
debate will be interested to know that Douglas Rain, who played HAL in 2001, also plays the voice of the
operation-assisting computer in Sleeper.
dude, pass the orb!
What's the URL for 'becoming ever more sophisticated' supposed to be?
Uhh.. just for curiousity's sake.
I dunno if anyone else saw the episode of Unscrewed, but there actually is a little platnum wire that can be injected into your spine and give you an orgams at teh touch of a button. Best part: they can last for as long as you hold the button! HAH!
The house from Sleeper is right above my parent's house. The orgasmatron is really an elevator in the place. It's still there. Last time I heard, the house is for sale, something like $12M.
That's Woody alright, and that sure is a nice banana, but that sure isn't the Orgasmatron. The Orgasmatron was a device that one stepped into...and later stepped out of with a goofy smile on one's face.
Sleeper is by far the best Woody Allen film. But that's just my opinion.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/story?id=235788&page=1
Here's the real orgasmatron. Guys beware!
lol n3ldan, i was just about to post that. it would be kinda cool when the wife starts complaining, push the button and OOOOHHHHH
Tweaq, your obviously a 13 year old and therefore unmarried. At least I hope so, since that was such a crass sentiment.
I just watched Sleeper a few days ago; every bit as good as I remember it!
Indeed, there was a doctor that recently appeared on (G4)TechTV's "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent" claiming that he had a device that could be implanted into the spine he called the "Orgasmatron" and you could manipulate by a remote control. The price for the procedure was around $4,000. You can find info on it in the show notes at www.g4techtv.com/unscrewed. Of course, G4 in their infinite stupidity, cancelled the show. To read about the status of moving the show to another cable network, check out Joey the Intern's website at: www.joeytheintern.com
And here was me thinking it was just a Motorhead track :
"I am the one, Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
I twist the truth, I rule the world, my crown is called deceit
I am the emperor of lies, you grovel at my feet
I rob you and I slaughter you, your downfall is my gain
And still you play the sycophant and revel in my pain
And all my promises are lies, all my love is hate
I am the politician, and I decide your fate
I march before a martyred world, an army for the fight
I speak of great heroic days, of victory and might
I hold a banner drenched in blood, I urge you to be brave
I lead you to your destiny, I lead you to your grave
Pour bones will build my palaces, your eyes will stud my crown
For I am Mars, the god of war, and I will cut you down" [ (c) the people what wrote it and that, in case someone takes legal offence ]
Eminemineminem is no doubt considering it as a cover, even as we speak. It's the album title as well, of course - if only Lemmy had thought of doing an Allen-themed concept album....
so one does not need a ph.d. in oral sex to operate the orgasmatron, like diane keaton's luna character
what a relief
that isn't the orgasmatron depicted above, that is the electrical brain reprogramming chamber
as miles said:
"not my brain, it's my second favorite organ"