I don’t think I was the only one who felt personally diminished by the carnival. And, oh yes, remember the time that they shook hands with Kennedy. They stare at screens and live in tubes, and count their money. Do any of these reporters have a life? No. No, the celebration of these people was fed by one thing, the obsessive-passive-voyeuristic-masturbatory-statusy media.
But the Kennedy family was surely appalled.
It was impossible to imagine that any one of the dead would have wanted such oleaginous veneration. The deification of a woman, Carolyn Bessette, who in spite of her magnificent style and bearing, was a silent presence. The solemn expressions of loss from reporters who had bumped into him once, at a party. The misrepresentation, as brilliant or serious, of someone who had not yet achieved very much in life, and whose charm lay in his not taking anything too seriously. I have only good feeling for Kennedy, but the response to his death was the most staggeringly sick expression of orgiastic media culture ever. Which is where the Kennedy carnival comes in. People crave refreshment, they want to relish innocence and lack of sophistication. The response to Blair Witch is a populist response that has nothing to do with hype. The media are just playing catch-up to the viewers. All the 40ish editors in the mainstream would have checked their watches–as I did–through the movie. There wouldn’t have been a Time cover in the first place. The cover of Time would have killed this picture. 16 Time cover–as if that were part of the plan. Time even ended its timeline of the marketing of Blair Witch with the Aug. The New York Times also said that the Internet had been used skillfully to push the film.īut all this is a self-justifying media delusion: Something can only succeed by cagey manipulation of the media.
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Their articles talk about Sundance, a giant team of marketers, the Internet and some cool TV shows. Time and Newsweek both put Blair Witch on the cover four weeks after it premiered and tried to argue that some calculated acts of hype had created the phenomenon. The movie’s success reflects a groundswell determination to reward anyone who might offer a plain, even homely expression. The culture is so logy and overpaid that it is a joy to see something work that is plain and real and amateurish and fresh and underpaid. It’s this simplicity that people are responding to.
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The sensibility of the movie is as unpretentious and straightforward as the jeans and flannel shirts its characters wear. It is built around a simple refreshing idea, and the characters are transparent and plain, even when they are trying to be guilesome. Yet The Blair Witch Project possesses one fine quality in abundance: innocence. Follow the creek down to a river or a town. Walk in a straight line for a couple of hours. Anyone who has done any hiking, as Heather and Josh both seem to have done, would be able to get out of the situation in a hurry. The forest in the film is young, the land has obviously been cleared not too long ago for farming. “They couldn’t really have gotten lost,” a girl said as we exited onto Mercer Street. The woods the filmmakers chose aren’t deep woods. ĭespite the billing, this horror movie isn’t horrifying, either. There is more real, intense feeling on MTV’s The Real World. (My crowd laughed maybe four times.) There’s little in the way of conflict between the characters, and what conflict there is has a Method gloss to it–O.K., we are about to have some conflict. Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1996 installment featuring one of the year’s most notable foreign films, Oscar-winning Czech film Kolya.Nothing much happens, and the jokes are few and far between. You can also sign up for the Produced by David Rosen Patreon where our bonus content will be available at Īll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at and follow us on Twitter can find Jason online at, on Facebook at, on Instagram at and on Twitter can find Josh online at, on Facebook at and on Twitter can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at, on Twitter at the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at.
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