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If Chins Could Kill
If Chins Could Kill
So humans are also the only animal that can hear chin music?
Back when Australia was still remote and exotic, before Crocodile Dundee even, a lot of people back in the day thought he sang:
“He just smiled and gave me a bit of my sandwich”,
which would have also made for a fantastic lyric in a very silly way.
My recommendations to you are as follows:
My favorite Altman film overall probably might have to be The Long Goodbye. Check out how the camera is always moving, if even slightly; there are no static shots. Midway through the movie, the great Sterling Hayden steals the show. And keep an eye out for a very, very young Ahnold Schwarzenegger in a bit role as literal and figurative muscle for the batshit insane bad guy.
Brewster McCloud is a bonkers twisted fantasy that caught me by surprise by how much I enjoyed it, it’s about a kid who:
Also, there are people being killed all over town, and it might have something to do with all this.
Altman came in throwing punches with the noisy background and chaotic dialogue wafting every which way, right from the outset, on MASH and McCabe & Mrs Miller, which is why it’s a good idea to watch his films with English subtitles turned on.
I don’t remember the cacophony being as intense in some of his other early works, like Brewster McCloud, California Split and The Long Goodbye.
But in Nashville, it’s most certainly there, front and center and in your face.
a multi-character parallel storytelling style that is only ever celebrated amongst industry snobs
I’m going to agree with caveats here, because some directors who are actual artists do it for the sake of the film and the challenge of it, as opposed to what I’ll refer to as “industry types”, who do it for the prizes. And some crazy bastards manage to pull it off. Three names come to mind - Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Soderbergh.
I’ve never seen “Crash” and never wanted to, from what I’ve read, the bland yet heavy-handed results onscreen, plus the lazy reflexive accolades, made me view the whole thing with a cynical eye, like you.
In fact, Robert Altman had a thing or two to say about those “industry types”, in his triumphant early-90s comeback film “The Player”.
Also, do yourself a favor and watch Altman’s “Short Cuts”, to see parallel storytelling at its’ best.
The entire instance seems to be engaged in an opinion shaping campaign
That’s too subtle a statement. It is a willful, bad-faith, full-on attack on objective reality via the rewriting of historical facts, redaction of massive volumes of information and constant aggressive, knee-jerk silencing of voices.
As such, it can also be described as a malicious assault on the mental health of individuals and society as a whole. Their actions a clear example of the type of repressive, miserable society they would have us live in, if given the chance by hook or by crook.
I blame Syfo Dyas
I’ve seen Shadows, Faces and The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie.
The man nearly single-handedly invented independent highbrow cinema in the United States, a gritty and bare urban realism that is as artistically important as the French Nouvelle Vague.
To put it in an oversimplified way, without Cassavettes there is no Scorsese as we know him.
Take your eccentric, elongated, path-uncleared orbit.
Use your harpoons and tow cables… and maybe a carrot or two.
Qui Woof Jinn
Doggy Wan Kenobi
I SAID YOUR INNER DISHWASHER MAKES A LOT OF NOISE!!!
On a cultural television channel from Mexico, there was a weekly recurring host panel of five or six academics in different fields, all with their PhDs in literature, linguistics, history, political science, etc. La Dichosa Palabra (The Blessed Word) was the name of the show.
Anyway, one of the panelists always seemed to trace the etymology of every word to the name of such-and-such goddess from antiquity.
One or two times, ok sure, you get dazzled by the erudition. But when it happens over and over and over again with any word no matter how seemingly trivial, it all acquires a strong whiff of confirmation bias bullshit with nobody to call him out on it.
But there are also many that are “among the greatest I will ever hear”.
My first reaction to this “quiet quitting” thing was that it’s gotta be some sort of parody. Then I remembered the 90s film “Office Space” and Jennifer Aniston as a waitress getting cornered and reprimanded over wearing the minimum amount of flair required as codified by the employee manual, page whatever, article whatever else.
“We’re here to have fun! Get a little crazy! Be a team!” - as the original spirit of the thing, which fairly quickly gets hijacked by the first petty tyrant that sees an opportunity to exploit.
And that, kids, is why we can’t have nice things. Because one of every four or five of us, turns out to be a petty tyrant first chance they get.
I’m gonna go off the beaten path a little here and go with Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild”, chances are the guests haven’t seen it and that film is one helluva ride, it’s got a little bit of something for everyone - comedy, romance, thriller, you name it.
An example is when Soviet tanks and troops marched into Czechoslovakia in 1948 I think it was, everyone in Europe got put back into a state of high alert.
enlightened centrism
…or something.
Nah, I’m of the view that evolution doesn’t grow upwards, but sudeways. We are at the edge.