Entertainment Lasso – Scary Stuff

October 31, 2009 in Cinema

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Using an even older picture than Nikki Finke’s, here is the very biased, incomplete, selective Wordsmoker Entertainment Lasso. While it’s not fiction, it’s still scary.

Roundup sounded too complete.

 


Hugh Jackman will not be hosting the Oscars this year as there has been an epidemic of “Jazz Hands” amongst tween Wolverine fans.

At the Doha/Tribeca Film Festival, Mira Nair said “If we don’t make our own stories, nobody else will,” about Amelia. This quote is totally taken out of context but is ridiculous even in context.

I so cannot wait for Kenneth Branagh’s Thor.

Disney wishes Miramax ex-president “the very best on his future endeavors.” Just like the temp in Kids in the Hall. I hope he got a big cookie.

Everyone is wanking off to Carey Mulligan

“ZOMG! Roger Corman is so cool!” said a bunch of 30-something guys.

Tony Scott did not cause enough seizures with Domino (yours truly actually saw it in a theater and had to go see Flightplan to calm down immediately after) so he is taking on Chippendales.

Ayn Rand is back to kick collectivist ass….

And the Thing You May Have Missed:

Lars von Trier, director of such unwatchable films such as Manderlay, Dogville, and his latest, Antichrist, as well as the really sort of great Breaking the Waves, was reminded how he responded to a journalist defending his portrayal of slavery 70 years after the American Civil War in Manderlay saying,“We will never see a black president, yet they are all over TV… so what good does that do? It only sounds politically correct, but it’s not a reality.” When reminded of this statement today, he said “Well, my perspective on that has changed a bit. President Obama seems very authentic… I wonder if there’s a white man inside of him.”

I did make up the Jazz Hands.

  • http://wordsmoker.com tigolbitties

    At the Doha/Tribeca Film Festival, Mira Nair said “If we don’t make our own stories, nobody else will,” about Amelia. This quote is totally taken out of context but is ridiculous even in context. – it is ridiculous in context why?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bigleggedwoman/ BigLeggedWoman

    I think that Nair’s comment is inarticulate; my reaction would be that others cannot make ‘our own stories’.

    I can’t believe von Trier actually said that about Obama. Maybe I am glad that I don’t pay much attention to film folk any more.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/ninahagen/ Nina Hagen

    Maybe if you read the context and thought about what the film is about, gender in Hollywood, the biopic genre, what Mira Nair does really well…

    If I have to explain it, it’s in the toilet. It’s a joke.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/korainhell/ korainhell

    I’d heard that about Lars van Trier. He’s an ass. And many of his films are unwatchable.

    And yet, Breaking the Waves is my favorite film. I also think that Ezra Pound wrote some of the greatest poetry ever. My “Feminist in Good Standing” card was revoked long ago.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/korainhell/ korainhell

    I feel that my story can be best expressed in the form of a Hollywood biopic starring Hilary Swank.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/ninahagen/ Nina Hagen

    Kora: But she SLEPT IN HER CAR!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/korainhell/ korainhell

    NINA: Like the brilliant poet, Jewel. All of the great female role models have lived in their cars.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/berightback/ berightback

    NICE HAT NINA FINKE

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/notandersoncooper/ NotAndersonCooper

    Does it count if you sleep in a rental? (car)

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/colonelmustard/ Colonel Mustard

    I can’t wait for Thor either! If we scandinavian superheroes don’t make our own stories, no one will.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bigleggedwoman/ BigLeggedWoman

    Sorry, Nina: didn’t do my homework.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/ninahagen/ Nina Hagen

    BL: Ach! – that was not to you.

  • http://wordsmoker.com tigolbitties

    @nina hagen: well in that case, i know what mira nair does, and i know what her comment was about – and i totally cosign on what she was saying. i am still confused as to why her comment was ridiculous both in and out of context. i’m even more confused as to why marginalized and oppressed people becoming subjects rather than objects is grounds for a joke.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/berightback/ berightback

    TB: I think it’s just an observation that Mira Nair claiming that her incredibly Hollywood-y, stale and standard biopic of Amelia Earhart was somehow in line with “telling stories no one else will”, or even of a piece with her own previous works (about which such a claim would make sense), is, indeed, a ridiculous instance of posturing that hollows out any meaning such a rhetorical move might have. To be completely humorless about a joke (sorry, Nina!)

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/korainhell/ korainhell

    Help help I’m being repressed!

    Some my favorite jokes are about "marginalized and oppressed people becoming subjects rather than objects."

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    I’m so glad I don’t really pay attention to the entertainment industry anymore. The Vapidity/Stupidity Index is apparently off the charts now.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/ninahagen/ Nina Hagen

    Newt: Thanks -that was the main point of the post really. Next time I will stick to Ridley Scott, that great feminist, and his take on Monopoly .

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/nefariousnewt/ NefariousNewt

    @NINA HAGEN: Hollyweird is like its own planet. You can’t take people immersed in that culture seriously, because they’ve lost all touch with reality. Fake people are more real to them than real people.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @Nina: I was oddly amused by your using the word “lasso” in this context. What are your thoughts about Paranormal Activity, a movie I just saw yesterday and was truly freaked a bit by? I know it’s schlock but isn’t it more cinematically honest to be frightened by a hokey $15,000 mess than some star-studded clusterfuck that cost a zillion dollars?