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:The English language with thick Italian accents is making it very hard for me to take House of Gucci seriously

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.

bart wrote:I think that’s from the HDS doc that was on Netflix 5-6 years ago. I remember liking it but also finding it depressing.

epilogue wrote:Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

epilogue wrote:Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

Begelman [studio chief] interfered with constantly through the initial stages of shooting, demanding changes and sending notes. By the end of filming, these demands had disappeared. The crew became convinced that Begelman had "checked out", and to test their theory, added a now-famous scene in which the presence of a watermelon becomes a topic for a short discussion. When the scene was allowed into the movie without comment, they concluded that management was indeed ignoring them, and they had free rein to put in whatever they wanted.

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.

Strat wrote:One of my favorite things to do these days is read the Wikipedia entries to some of my favorite movies while actually watching them.

I love reading about script issues, development issues, reviews from the time period.

Its also funny to recognize when entries to Wikipedia are clearly not fleshed out beyond cut and past from old interviews/articles from the time the movies were released.

Overall, i get such joy out of reading about mostly banal issues from Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, a league of their own......and on and on and on.

epilogue wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

epilogue wrote:Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

Part of the reason I've never watched it is fear of having that gif contextualized.

VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

epilogue wrote:Still never seen it.

Someday, someday, maybe

Part of the reason I've never watched it is fear of having that gif contextualized.

oh dont worry...there is no explanation for that.