we all know I have no life, so:

There's some frustrating irony that Kazan made a film about a Mexican revolutionary who was, at the very least, sympathetic to Bolshevism, and it came out the same year as the HUAC testimony.

But then, I doubt Kazan really cared about Zapata's politics anyways.

This wasn't even the first time Kazan did a movie where a white actor played a non-white role, but fuuuuuuuuuuck this is some gringo bullshit. Why are you doing that to your eyes, Marlon.

Suddenly remembered Elia Kazan's movie where Marlon Brando played Emiliano Zapata and felt a psychic attack.

it's really a profound experience to go from being 15 not understanding why an adult got annoyed when you said you liked something "as a kid" to being 30 seeing teenagers on social media get Nostalgia for things from 2019 and having an aneurysm

Once I wrap up my classes this semester, it's full steam ahead on writing a script for a video essay.

Hope people enjoy me rambling about shonen villains being fruity as fuck lmao.

Nah you're completely right, even the name rubs me the wrong way. "Crisis" only refers to the personal reputation of a public figure here. It's ridiculous.

Pretty much. Tactics haven't changed, just the faces changing.

Was it around back in the 90's?

MJ built this self-pitying defense of himself for decades. You can't separate the art from the artist when a lot of his art was him responding to those allegations! He made it a part of his identity!

Are we finally going to admit how crazy this all was?

Just pause for a moment and think about the arguments being made.

"They just want money."

"Why didn't they say anything sooner?"

"These people said nothing happened."

The same arguments used against plenty of victims. It never changes.

Michael Jackson was really out there pioneering the same cultish tactics as Johnny Depp, just with a greater Messiah complex.

Literally weaponizing his fanbase to harass his accusers, and his estate are keeping that shit up. It's beyond disgusting.

A Michael Jackson movie that doesn’t even ALLUDE to him being accused of raping children is such a strange big budget project. It’s weird that it even exists. It would be like making Titanic and cutting before the iceberg. What a ridiculous display.

It’s national library week so pay a visit to your local branch!

Ah okay, another weirdo stan. Piss off.

Jarvis Cocker, please go to the premiere of this movie, you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

With how they treat MJ's victims, I certainly can.

The MJ stans are gonna go nuclear about this lol.

I'm not even saying you have to like some of these directors, but there's often this personal element that feels less like analyzing art and more like trying to get a personal swipe at a given director. And it's nothing new.

Give it twenty years, there will be a new crowd to hate.

Steven Spielberg was "the guy who killed New Hollywood" for the longest time. David Lynch was considered a sick, pretentious creep. It's only been fairly recently that Michael Mann has gotten greater appreciation.

It's all cyclical. "Canonization" is a lengthy process.

Its something to keep in mind whenever there's another online trend of attacking a particular director as being an overrated hack.

Today it's people dissing Nolan, Wes Anderson, and Iñárritu. In the past, it was dissing Godard, Antonioni, and Tarkovsky.

It needs to be reminded that the directors enshrined in the "film canon" weren't exactly treated as master artists in their time. They all had fans, but they also had plenty of detractors. Many of them took decades before they were cemented in the "canon".

It's niche in the United States, at least.

Genuinely, all three of them are some really great directors and I love the works I've seen. Even with how different they all are, from Buñuel's rage to Herzog's naturalism, there's some intriguing similarities I'd love to examine.

The Exterminating Angel: The social rituals of the upper class become a prison and they descend into violence.

Kaspar Hauser: Attributing insanity to one who refuses to abide by rigid social mores.

Blue Velvet: Fetishistic violence beneath suburbia, with a childish evil at its center.

I feel like you could make a really good comparison between Werner Herzog, David Lynch, and Luis Buñuel in how they treat bourgeois rationalism and the idea of enforcing conformity and order in a chaotic and irrational world.

portrait of muhammad avdol

yes he is

#jjba

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

April 20th is a big day for Elon because of his two great passions: marijuana and Hitler

How many people know Werner Herzog from the memes and how many people have actually watched his movies?