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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The last week I have been taken up with a movie series, which I watched together with my friends, when I was a teenager. I had not thought to care about this movie series at all. One day, a short time ago, when I was walking around in the city centre in Oslo; I went into a shop which sells CDs, LPs and DVDs etc. And without having planned it, or thought about it; I started to look after one DVD from this series. I thought that I only had seen one of the movies from this series, and looked after that one. I only found a box set, with all the movies from the series. First I did not want to buy this box, and I looked around in the shop without having any idea about shopping anything. After being in the shop for some time, I bought the box set, because it did not cost more than a little more, than one DVD. But it was like I only wanted to care about one movie from this series.

After I had come home, and watched the one movie which I thought I only had seen; I become uncertain about what I had seen when I was a teenager. I watched all the movies, 14 pieces. After that, I watched all the movies I could have seen until 1974, 5 pieces. Then I started to think that I maybe had seen all these 5 movies. And it was like it was difficult for me, to find out about this.

This movie series is a Norwegian series called Olsen‐Banden (The Olsen‐Gang), based on a Danish series with the same name. It is a humorous crime series, with a completely unrealistic contents, where the criminals are some good‐natured people who are very unlucky. The police are humorous described, and is also very unlucky. The series makes fun with these criminal characters and police characters, in a way which is very unreal. The real world is not at all like this movie series; and that is something I have thought about now, when I have been taken up with these movies. This nice story about such things in the society, which makes people laughing; is about something, which not at all is nice and something to laugh about, in the real world.

All these years I have been taken up with this, I have thought about that these criminals, who use mind control, have influenced our societies regarding how we behave and react. I have thought about that they have influenced us to laugh away things we could have understood about our societies; in a way which have changed how we were regarding such things before. And I have thought about that they have influenced us to laugh away our own significance.

What I first thought was one movie; I later thought could be, that we saw five movies. And to get this back in correct order; was like changing a messy incoherent muddle, into an extensive picture, clear and comprehensible. To gain this change, I have seen these five movies many times, the first more than the last, five to eight times maybe. It started to become something with these movies, after I had seen them several times. These five movies are:

Olsen‐Banden
(The Olsen‐Gang);
first night August 11, 1969.

Olsen‐banden og Dynamitt‐Harry
(The Olsen‐gang and Dynamite‐Harry);
first night August 10, 1970.

Olsen‐banden tar gull
(The Olsen‐gang takes gold);
first night September 9, 1972.

Olsen‐banden og Dynamitt‐Harry går amok
(The Olsen‐gang and Dynamite‐Harry goes amok);
first night December 26, 1973.

Olsen‐banden møter Kongen og Knekten
(The Olsen‐gang meets The King and The Fellow);
first night August 15, 1974.

The reason why I write about this; is that I got some clear thoughts: I thought that it is not my memory, which has disappeared; it is the connection to my memory, which has disappeared. An experience of disorder in the memory, is also what it is about. And to get these things in order; is like changing myself, like changing who I am, because I remember who I was when I saw these movies. Because of these thoughts; I wrote this text.

I have thought about that these criminals, who use mind control, can have influenced me regarding this movie series. But I can not find out about how. It is something suspicious about that I was so sure about, that I only had seen one movie. That movie was called Olsen‐banden og Dynamitt‐Harry (The Olsen‐gang and Dynamite‐Harry) in my mind, but I did not remember what the movie was about.

All these movies have also been shown many times on TV, and I have seen them, but not thought about them. This series has been popular both in Denmark, where it was made in 14 pieces, from 1968 to 1998; and in Norway, where it also was made in 14 pieces, from 1969 to 1999.

David H. Hegg