Cinemascope

“Repo! The Genetic Opera”, the new gore-fest by “Saw” director Darren-Lynn Bousman had it’s second trailer released this week (see below), and it looks rather amusing, giving the term “Death Metal” back its proper meaning. The story, as much as I gathered from the trailer, tells of a future in which repo-men come to collect organs from those unable to pay their debts. Live Organ Transplants? Sounds brilliant…. BUT - unoriginal. Monty Python did it first in their 1983 movie “The Meaning of Life”: premature organ extractions, repo men AND a musical number. In the Monty Python sketch John Cleese comes to collect the liver from organ donor Terry Gilliam (who, for some reason, has dreadlocks and hears “Hava Nagila” in his home). When the organ donor protests that his donation is activated “only in the event of death”, Cleese reassures him saying “No one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived” (the transcript for the sketch is available here). He then goes on a sales pitch to persuade the Mrs. (Terry Jones) to donate her liver as well, right there and then and then segues off into a song.
Well, well, what’s all this then? A coincidence? A tribute? Or should “Repo! The Genetic Opera” be named “Rip-Off! The Generic Opera”?

Judge for yourself: the trailer for “Repo: The Genetic Opera” and below it the Monty Python bit “Live Organ Transplant” and “The Galaxy Song” (careful, it’s bloody):

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