The State of the Art
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2013
- The Culture ship Arbitrary arrives on Earth in 1977 and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'property' and 'money' and on the edge of self destruction. When Agent Dervley Linter, decides to go native can Diziet Sma change his mind?
by Iain M. Banks
dramatised by Paul Cornell
The Ship - Antony Sher
Diziet Sma - Nina Sosanya
Dervley Linter - Paterson Joseph
Li - Graeme Hawley
Tel - Brigit Forsyth
Sodel - Conrad Nelson
Directed by Nadia Molinari. - บันเทิง
I miss this man's work so much, he gave me life and vision, I'd wait for his books to come our and gorged on them, greatly missed
May his imagery inspire a thousand paintings.
He was the best. Only discovered him long after his death and still gutted by it.
He was a treasure. My favourite by far!
After finishing use of weapons, I became super afraid that I wouldn’t be able to listen to the audiobook for this because all of your pool didn’t have it. Now I realize it’s far too short for audible to charge a full credit for. Thank you for this production
On behalf of the people of Earth, I wholeheartedly say "bloody tourists". LMAO
Bloody _rich_ tourists, doing a bit of poverty porn, then jetting off back to civilisation.
I love ALL of Banks 's books ... Most of all the Culture books. This particular story , especially at this moment in time , needs to be seen and read by the world . It's very Eriilly fitting ...
The Player of games is my favourite.
It's a wonderful look into a corrupt society from the outside.
It teaches you what fascism looks like.
USA.
Fix it.
@@ianedmonds9191 No. We shall go the full measure this time.
Wouldn't it be great if a GCU appeared in orbit and instigated a full contact. Imagine the despots, bankers CEO's realising it's now a level field! Good adaptation too.
According to canon, it happens in the 2100s!
Looking forward to that! Just hope it will happen in the beginning of next century and not 2199, I have doubts in my ability to live 200+ years :(
@@tappajaav Bring it on.
@@ianedmonds9191 Oh yeah.
I mean, Earth as-is would be no match for The Culture whatsoever of course. So it would just be a liberated field.
A story in which Contact enlists Earthlings to carry out the revolution ourselves would be lovely. It's the backstory for my Star Citizen character. LOL.
I love that the timeline lines up with the Wow! signal from SETI
So well done, this is a fitting tribute to Iain, I wish they would do more in this style, especially with these actors. very very good.
@Langdongood omens was awesome.
Beautiful adaptation... Definitely worth the 45 minutes. Thank you.
Thank you, uploader! I love Iain Banks & I wish more of his work was on TH-cam. Culture is so a major series that a lot of people are hesitant to get into without some preliminary exposure. Imo the publisher should at least allow uploads of the first book or portions of each. Banks deserves a larger audience
Iain will be missed.
Amazing. Iain M banks was a visionary.
The culture should be the template for our civilisation moving forward.
I doubt we'll be that enlightened.
Let's try hard anyway.
The bread heads will be self defeating in the long term.
Luv and Peace.
I think you missed the whole point. It flew so far over your head that it might as well have been the good ship Arbitrary in orbit.
That ending was so hauntingly beautiful.
great adaptation. Wish they would do some of the 'big' novels
I lost it so bad when the crew showed up in Star Trek uniforms. AND A BLOODY LIGHT SABER. Hearing it swing in the background during the dialog I lost my shit
After having read a few other Culture novels, Excession, Player of Games, Consider Phlebas. This story hit me in a weird way .. It dawned on me, that the Culture didn't spring out from Earth, putting the stories I knew in the far future. Somehow, that changed the potential of the entire corpus of Culture novels :-)
if anything, the culture is the future that we lost to the great defeats of humanity in the 20th century
my understanding is that the Culture is and remains contemporary to Earth now.
@@kparker2430 it really depends on the timeline. The State of the Art takes place in the mid 1970-ties, Earth time .. a point where The Culture is obviously well established.
It is, of course, up for debate, if Excession, Player of Games and Consider Phlebas takes place before or after The State of the Art.
As a whole, I don't think Earth and our history have much influence on the history of The Culture. Earth might strive to be absorbed by the Culture, but that's about it.
@@KarstenLangPedersen hello Karsten, i feel the Culture (fictional) must exist as a reality given ' our universe and scale'. I feel such an advanced society would reign in its expansionary tendencies . If there is a real life equivalent of Contact and Special Services we might get intervention prior to annihilation, Our scientists conclude what the likelihood of advanced civs destroying themselves is; the Culture as it likely exists can do the math - are they willing to let the potential of Sol Earthers go, or are they maybe relieved by the prospect. We are talking about the minds here. Sol Earthers are very primitive. Much needs to be done, if they live that long and can maintain high tech.
@@kparker2430 have you ever just sat and watched an ant-hill, just because you didn't have anything better to do on a hot summer day?
The motivations of other civilizations with regards to us, could be exactly the same.
It's only a very, very small fraction of the inhabitants of the Culture (I know, fictional) that are even aware of Special Circumstances existence.
In "The State of The Art", Earth is just observed with little to no disturbance at all .. just like the ant hill, when you've been entertained long enough.
I come back to this at least 5 times a month…masterfully done.
This was beautiful. I need to be a part of the Culture
RIP IMB
I didn't know. :'(
only celebrity death ive given a shit about in recent times, he was a good friend and teacher through the difficult teenage/20something/30something years...
Has it really been that long? It seems like only yesterday that we greived the passing of one of the best sci fi writers of our generation.
5:15
Sma: "What's that?"
Mind: "A red Volvo station wagon. Ideal for reentry from orbit."
Lol
And of course the in-car music is Queen...
|If there is a culture like civilisation out there, I hear by give you my permission to contact me and induct me into your society.
ditto
Me too pls thnx ❤️
me 4, in case some Mind like entity happens to be scanning our electromagnetic spectrum
Absolutely
Pleasurable experience.
Thank You.
Thank you. This was beautiful.
There's a definite Hawkwind vibe to some of the background music.
Lovely
*Funny, It Worked Last Time...*
Cooo-ell. Just bought the paperback on spec. I’m just a minute into the dramatisation and loving it already. Think I’ll read it first though.
Wish they would have played "Serenade" as she descended to earth, but I imagine they couldn't get the rights. Otherwise a lovely adaptation.
That was amazing, just ordered the first book of the series, can't wait to start!
i'm jealous you get to read it all for the first time.
how do you like it?
this is just amazin
I'm convinced a couple of millennium down the road something will stumble on The Culture novels.
They will translate and read them.
This being will give up its equivalent of a heavy sigh and say, "Pity, he was almost spot on".
I enjoyed this. I keep wondering about the music. I recognise it but can't place it. Anyone know?
Michael Kilner sounds a little like Cinematic Orchestra
Contextually I see the State of the Art as a religious sequel to the religious war in Consider Phlebas.
Whereas the Culture defeated an ideology more akin to Islamic fundamentalism than Christian fundamentalism in Phlebas, the death of the Culture agent and the ascendance of Sma into the sky is truly a Christian allegory.
Brilliant!!
" just happen to like heterosexuality it's funnier" LOL
Them Straights are whacky ngl
Anyone knows if the background music at around 43:35 is made specifically for this audioplay? It's so hauntingly beautiful!
The music is from Tangerine Dream's album Rubycon. It was also played as background music at Expo '88 in Montreal, for similar reasons.
Thanks so much, I've just now seen your reply!
@@malphillips9480 well spotted! I listened to it now and it sounded like Tangerine Dream but I couldn't place it.
@@malphillips9480 got a timestamp (in rubycon)? its 35 min long T_T
@@MrFaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Expo '88 played Tangerine Dream tracks on a loop. I searched Rubycon, which has very similar passages, then remembered that sections of Phaedra were also used for the Exhibition. Try th-cam.com/video/HIQ0dd7B_FU/w-d-xo.html at 35:00 onwards
This was such a great adaptation of the novella
Well done ❤️
what a treat. thank you.
Is this the full book ?
Full "State of the Art" story. The book is an anthology.
theres a bunch of stories, but the final story is this one, maybe around 100 pages. its kinda a pequel story with dizet sma from the previous book.
Do you believe that at the end SPOILERS DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER the ship was responsible for the "accident"? It said it wasn't really wise, and a man staying behind maybe wasn't for 5he best, since the culture CHOSE not to make contact? This is the second time I hear this story (the first one was years ago) and this is the first time I thought maybe it wasn't an accident.
12-13-2022.
Intelligent life? At 71 I have had plenty of trouble in trying to locate Intelligent Life? Ha, and I must include me in my search. Life, yes. But Intelligent, no.
If only...
41:00
really needed Steven Fry as the mind
If the Culture novels were ever made into films, who would you want cast as Diziet Sma?
Kate Beckinsale?
Ruth Millar?
Maisie Williams?
Elizabeth Debicki or Gwendoline Christie. Sma's close to seven feet tall - something she didn't change when undergoing modification to pass as a Terran - so let's get a tall actress.
Thought her name was supposed to be pronounced Dee-zay too - though when first reading Use of Weapons I mentally read it as Dezeet (rhymes with deceit).
Hmm, I always read it with a French twist. Diz-E-ay. Such a Terran, am I.
www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/consider-phlebas/271128/amazon-to-adapt-sci-fi-novel-consider-phlebas-for-tv
Scarlett Johanssen?
@@OldNavajoTricks 🤔🤔🤔👍
Oh Christ yeah.
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it always makes me cry.. is that what we are. idiots on a beautiful frozen plain, smashing it to pieces and trying to sell light? and where have we gotten sine 1977. wasted beauty indeed
I thought this was a great adaptation. most of the descriptive text from the short story was seamlessly transitioned into dialog.
Star Trek, such a hoot!
David Bowie came from the Culture, lol.
I always pictured Tilda Swinton as Diziet if there’s ever a movie. But anyways, they made the right decision in not contacting us. It has nothing to do with technological sophistication & more about us treating each other & our environment correctly, compassionately. Until they know we’ll behave responsibly & share their values, they’ll never contact us. We need to work our problems here on Earth for ourselves. That’s why people like Elon Musk who want to just runaway to Mars or get rescued from Earth by the Culture don’t get it, don’t understand it’s outlook. Plus he’s a libertarian capitalist so the Culture & Iain would have disliked him if not out & out despised him.
>Ian Smith and Augusto Pinochet as tyrants
Ha! That's a good one.
Am I the only one who felt that the whole treatment of this was wrong? It's too much Douglas Adams... too much comedy oriented?
That's how it's written. Culture citizens are like the most privileged and pampered kids, and joining Contact is a kind of gap year thing for people who want to see the galaxy. It's all in the text.
Not how I read it. Agreed on culture citizens attitude etc, but the prose didn't read like this to me.
@@pook2830 Agree with you, mate. This adaptation irritated the shit out of me. Tonally, completely wrong. Even the casting/voices utterly stank - especially Sma. Too soft, too childlike. Always thought of Diziet as being much... sterner. As for the comedy - of course the books are funny (very funny, in places; currently listening to the Excession audiobook, and it's packed with sly jokes), but Banks' humour is far more sardonic than the almost slapstick treatment here. Very disappointing.
@@GjVj "The free content wasn't the way I wanted." 😢
@@telectronix1368 No. It wasn't. Problem?
This is a very poor representation of the tone and aesthetic of the Culture and Banks' writing style.
A bit sick of sci-fi as thinly veiled propagation of ideology.
This is the deepest of Culture stories and the shortest. (well there are some other stories in the book The State of The Art but they are not really full Culture stories). Banks is at his best when he raises questions about the Culture, when he takes other perspectives that might, though seeming Fundamentalist and not fun, be the correct path. His later novels are full of aliens who hate the Culture, dissidents who oppose the Culture, but this one book really makes you wonder who is right and who is wrong. Is the Culture life of endless fun without suffering really right, would it be good to be in it?