Red Mosquito

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:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I’d be really curious to hear your thoughts on Darjeeling, Joe. It’s the most overtly misogynistic — the sons are all shits — but I think it’s also one of his most effective stories.

Are you saying the movie is misogynistic because you think characters in it are misogynistic?

I was being lazy. The characters are misogynistic.

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.

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.

The Argonaut wrote:oh fucking please, that is not right.

tragabigzanda wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:oh fucking please, that is not right.

Obviously there's more to it than that -- the scene in and after the river is particularly great -- but I stand by my main point that it's about three emotionally selfish shit heads who want their mom to fix their problems despite her request for space.

Don't get me wrong, I love the movie, as I said earlier I think it's one of Anderson's most effective, and that's because the characters aren't so thinly drawn as in his more recent works...

But Joe, if you've seen the Royal Tenenbaums movie, imagine Gene Hackman's id divided across three individual sons who carry the same personality traits. And yet they are more sympathetic than Hackman's character for reasons I won't go into.

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.

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.