Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:There are so many tragedies within his story, too. Obviously the Brown and Goldman families. OJ's kids. LA. His fucking agent! Christ, that guy!

It's fucking epic. It's Greek Tragedy for our age. In one hundred years people won't believe it's true. If the whole thing hadn't been videotaped, people wouldn't believe it now.

Any idea who propagated the notion that televising the trial would be a good thing for American culture? They touched on that idea only briefly in the doc, and I wish they had explored it more. Was it basically just CNN and Los Angeles County agreeing that this would be a good thing? Did the trial lawyers have any say in the matter?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:There are so many tragedies within his story, too. Obviously the Brown and Goldman families. OJ's kids. LA. His fucking agent! Christ, that guy!

It's fucking epic. It's Greek Tragedy for our age. In one hundred years people won't believe it's true. If the whole thing hadn't been videotaped, people wouldn't believe it now.

Any idea who propagated the notion that televising the trial would be a good thing for American culture? They touched on that idea only briefly in the doc, and I wish they had explored it more. Was it basically just CNN and Los Angeles County agreeing that this would be a good thing? Did the trial lawyers have any say in the matter?

My understanding is that The People (meaning the prosecution and specifically the DA, Gil Garcetti) wanted everything above board because of race-relations at the time. He requested that it be televised to show everyone how the justice system worked and to keep transparency. The court (Ito) agreed and here we are.

There are a lot of sources (and this is touched on a bit in the docu-drama 'The People v OJ Simpson' that recently aired) that Ito was a bit of star fucker and wanted to be on TV.

Yea, I remember that about Ito from when it all went down, though they didn't really get into that in the doc.

theplatypus wrote:Hey Biff. What's new around the office today

durdencommatyler wrote:Swiss Army Man.

What a strange film. I can say I've never like that after a movie before. So fucking strange.

durdencommatyler wrote:*felt

durdencommatyler wrote:Interstellar.

Meh.

bart wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Interstellar.

Meh.

this should have been the tagline for the movie.