Homo Magi Yoyodyne 24.08.2025 |
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Hallo Salamander,
es ist manchmal ganz lustig, wenn man fiktionale Bezüge findet, die
Dinge verbinden, die man unverbunden glaubt.
So erging es mir mit „Buckaroo Banzai“[1].
Es gibt Menschen, die diesen Film hassen – aber ich liebe ihn, weil er
alles nicht ist, als was man ihn beschreiben könnte: Science Fiction,
Musikfilm, Pulp. Im Film gibt es gefühlt 1000 Bezüge zu H. G. Wells und
eben auch die Firma Yoyodyne:
The Cavaliers track the Red Lectroids to Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems in
New Jersey. They realize that Orson Welles's broadcast of The War of the
Worlds described the Lectroids' arrival in Grovers Mill, New Jersey in
1938, though afterward the Lectroids forced him to state it was fictional.
Yoyodyne has been building a spacecraft to cross over to the 8th
dimension, disguised as a new United States Air Force bomber.
(…)[2]
Die Firma Yoyodyne ist aber viel älter (und eigenartiger). Quelle sind
eigentlich die Romane von Thomas Pynchon:
Yoyodyne was first introduced as a fictional defense contractor in
Pynchon's debut novel V. (1963) and featured prominently in his
novella The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). Described in the latter book as "a
giant of the aerospace industry," Yoyodyne was founded by World War
II veteran Clayton "Bloody" Chiclitz. The company has a large
manufacturing plant in the fictional town of San Narciso, California. The
name is reminiscent of several real high-tech companies, including
the Gyrodyne Company of America, Teledyne and Teradyne, all of which were
founded a few years before Pynchon wrote The Crying of Lot 49,
and Rocketdyne, an aerospace company that manufactured, among other
things, propulsion systems.[3]
Natürlich (naja) gibt es auch eine gleichnamige Firma im „Buffy“-Ableger
„Angel“[4].
Und keine fiktive Firma kann wirklich glaubhaft sein, wenn sie nicht in
„Star Trek“ erwähnt wird:
Numerous references in the Star Trek series, such as control panels and
dedication plaques, indicate that parts of Federation starships were
manufactured by Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems or YPS. Often, these notices
are too small to be visible on a television screen, or can only be
observed by freeze-framing.[5]
Was kann glaubhafter sein als eine nicht-existente Firma, welche das Gute
oder das Böse (je nach Serie) beliefert – oder einfach ohne Moral ist und
beide Seiten zu den Kunden zählen kann.
Wer weiß.
Dein Homo Magi
[1] Vgl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension
(22.08.2025)
[2] ebenda
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne
(22.08.2025)
[4] ebenda
[5] ebenda
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