Anywhoo? While watching the first episode of "the prisoner" i came across a few objects that stood out to me in perticular. one of them being the "lava lamp".
Now the lava lamps are spotted throughtout the whole series and are used as cameras which you find out later in the series. when lava lamps first hit the world it was a big hit through the 60's and early 70's. they featured many different designs and colours and was used for a more decoritive reason then illumination.
Next we have the most famous egg chair first used in the prisoner and now is echoing in many industries. The chair is seen in many episodes of the series in the office of "number 2". The first time you see the chiar "number 2" is sitting in it with a cane and seem pretty important if you ask me. I dont know what it is but something about the chair when you sit in it makes you look important and posses some kind of controll or power over something/someone. i also notice that when sitting in one of these chairs there is much open air to you and can seem quite cramped and uncomfortable. this could convey that number 2 sits in it the feel isolated from the village because he too may feel trapped and prisoned within it so him sitting in the chair lets us and himself know that he is seperate and may have to option to leave whenever he wants. sometimes the chair can be seen as 1960's thrown kind of. ^_^ LOL
Like i said previously the egg chair has echoed throw different industries. above is a image from men in black 2 and again its conveying the importance of the two men (Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith).
The image above doesn't show the exact design but something very simular. the artist could of base the advertisement of the egg chair and again conveying how precious and powewrful this fone is.
number 6's blazer/jacket he wear's in the prisoner gives him a more sleek shady look and kind of feeds more of a mystery theme to the audiences. the blazer is black which could mean he is a dark hearted man and that could lead to why he is in the village in addition there is also white which good mean thewre is good in him.
The jacket/blazer in the prisoner has had an effect opn thje fashion world (as you can see from the image above). the fashions blazer know as "the balenciaga blazer" looks very simular to number 6's jacket in the prisoner and we as an audience can assume that maybe the artist that designs the blazer may have got the idea from the show.
so through these simply yet noticable objects we spot during the series we are already getting a strong visual language of the show and what we could expect later in the show.
