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This week, Tony makes plans to change the face of modern eating, we discuss a lot of movies, and then helpfully start the process of determining the level of racism in our listener. Enjoy!
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My impression wasn’t particularly exaggerated, just as accurate to the character as I could get. The player wasn’t offended, just surprised. He just never seen the movies. He doesn’t watch “Old” movies.
In the year Episode One came out, one film that was as old then as Episode One is now was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Monty Python’s Holy Grail, too. In 1999, did I think of those films as old?
Yeah, I guess I sort of did. BUT… those films were pre-Star Wars. Everything before Star Wars in 1977 seemed old by comparison, to me. Maybe 2009’s Avatar does the same for people younger than me? Pre-2009 films seem old to them?
Or maybe these days something 24 years old is just considered old…
Well by old movies, I was referring to Little Shop of Horrors, but he’s just kind of a weird guy.
I think it’s important to factor in why this old/new distinction is being made. Most of the people I know who are talking about old movies vs. new movies (wherever they draw the line between old and new) are doing so when they explain, as Azuretalon’s friend did, that they don’t watch “old movies.”
This seems related to capitalism/consumerism which sells things on the basis of new is better and old should be disregarded.
I hadn’t thought about it, but now that you point it out, if I had a friend who claimed they don’t watch “old movies,” I’d probably mock them for it aggressively, as it’s such an arbitrary distinction. It sounds like something a teenager would say.
Then again, I’m always looking for excuses to mock my friends aggressively. Maybe I should hang out with this friend of Azuretalon’s. 🙂
Your friends are weird. 😛
Also Trick ‘r’ Treat is a Halloween tradition for us.
And Christmas is just a money economy I think
Way to make baby Jesus cry, dude! 😛
I could definitely see Trick ‘r’ Treat being a family tradition. It’s a very Halloween-y horror movie. 🙂
Returning to the original Audrey:
You’ve got a female plant that looks like a Venus fly-trap voiced by a bass-sounding African-American actor that winds up consuming human-beings on its way to world-domination. Doesn’t that seem like the stereotype of the man-eating, cannibalistic qualities of the Other (female, African-American, gender non-binary) were both being satirized and kind of being made comically empowering?
So then, I’d say when someone does an impression of Audrey, they’re supporting all of the above (which to me would be anti-racist, sexist, gender-conforming).
But of course, you would have had to have seen the movie….
In case it wasn’t clear, I meant the “anti” to carry over to the rest of the adjectives.
You may have changed my mind on man-eating plants, actually…