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Feed the Flying Cows
Mar. 28th, 2006 07:52 pmI forgot to review this earlier. A few days ago Julie, Kate and I watched Bamboozled. It's by Spike Lee, which tells you something right off the bat. Everything about this movie is INCREDIBLE. I'd label it a black comedy (augh, no pun intended) if anything. There's certainly a degree of painful humor there. It's the kind of thing where something starts out funny but midway through you realize...wow...that's really not funny, but not in a bad way.
In any event, it's about this black TV writer with an amazingly psychotic accent who works for the wigga-est boss I've ever seen. Boss wants something fresh and punchy for their next show, so, in an attempt to show America the truth about race relations (thereabouts), Pierre (the writer) decides to create the most anti-PC, blatantly racist show on television. How, you ask? By making a minstral show. Complete with black guys in black face. As Kate pointed out, it follows the mad scientist formula.
It's all funny as hell for the first half, but then things get serious--as I mentioned, there's that moment when you're just like "it's not really funny anymore." The whole concept, I mean. Not the movie.
The movie over all is a visual phenomenon. The camera, the editing, the missan sen (sp?) as Kate calls it--my God, it's all spectacular. One of the most visually and technically appealing movies I've ever seen (I'd compare it to LoTR: RotK or Easy Rider). Excellence all around. Spike Lee's not a household name for nothing.
In other news, we're out of anime. Curse slow downloads.
And it was beautiful today. Blue skies, light breeze, sunshine. Everyone was outside. Looooovvveeeellllyyyy. It's finally getting to be spring.
I sort of kind of have four writing projects going right now, seeing as I don't really have any homework this week of much import. I'm taking a break on the Penta rewrite (at chapter 4) partially because I'm still not sure I like the beginning and partially because my interest in Mot has been revived. Mot's taking the forefront now because I've got all these ideas for later in the story, plus I want to write the scene with Kail playing pirate, and I want to get to a scene coming up with E confronting his past. (woot). I did write a piece with Penta 2--Kaz finally has his flammable kitten! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
The other one is Fox Adderwood, naturally. As I said, originally he was going to have a place in the short story for Creative Writing, but it was going to end up being too long. I've decided to keep him in a realistic fiction setting (no Demons and no magic, IOW) and run with the original concept. Mikayla O'Brien (you might recognize the name...no?...no one?...she was the female protagonist in the now debunked All Dogs Bark the Same) goes to Fox Adderwood--hat-knitting ex-treasure hunter--for help finding something her grandfather was searching for (she's part of a treasure hunting family too). It'll be campy and fun. Because I want to write something campy and fun.
If it doesn't end up a novel I'll probably turn it into a series of short stories. Fox Adderwood deserves as much airtime as possible. He's just so adorable. And flawed. And adorable. He's a flawed, adorable puppy. A flawed dog. Whee!
In any event, it's about this black TV writer with an amazingly psychotic accent who works for the wigga-est boss I've ever seen. Boss wants something fresh and punchy for their next show, so, in an attempt to show America the truth about race relations (thereabouts), Pierre (the writer) decides to create the most anti-PC, blatantly racist show on television. How, you ask? By making a minstral show. Complete with black guys in black face. As Kate pointed out, it follows the mad scientist formula.
It's all funny as hell for the first half, but then things get serious--as I mentioned, there's that moment when you're just like "it's not really funny anymore." The whole concept, I mean. Not the movie.
The movie over all is a visual phenomenon. The camera, the editing, the missan sen (sp?) as Kate calls it--my God, it's all spectacular. One of the most visually and technically appealing movies I've ever seen (I'd compare it to LoTR: RotK or Easy Rider). Excellence all around. Spike Lee's not a household name for nothing.
In other news, we're out of anime. Curse slow downloads.
And it was beautiful today. Blue skies, light breeze, sunshine. Everyone was outside. Looooovvveeeellllyyyy. It's finally getting to be spring.
I sort of kind of have four writing projects going right now, seeing as I don't really have any homework this week of much import. I'm taking a break on the Penta rewrite (at chapter 4) partially because I'm still not sure I like the beginning and partially because my interest in Mot has been revived. Mot's taking the forefront now because I've got all these ideas for later in the story, plus I want to write the scene with Kail playing pirate, and I want to get to a scene coming up with E confronting his past. (woot). I did write a piece with Penta 2--Kaz finally has his flammable kitten! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
The other one is Fox Adderwood, naturally. As I said, originally he was going to have a place in the short story for Creative Writing, but it was going to end up being too long. I've decided to keep him in a realistic fiction setting (no Demons and no magic, IOW) and run with the original concept. Mikayla O'Brien (you might recognize the name...no?...no one?...she was the female protagonist in the now debunked All Dogs Bark the Same) goes to Fox Adderwood--hat-knitting ex-treasure hunter--for help finding something her grandfather was searching for (she's part of a treasure hunting family too). It'll be campy and fun. Because I want to write something campy and fun.
If it doesn't end up a novel I'll probably turn it into a series of short stories. Fox Adderwood deserves as much airtime as possible. He's just so adorable. And flawed. And adorable. He's a flawed, adorable puppy. A flawed dog. Whee!
