You think that European seemed sophisticated? All I saw was an entitled dumass who thought everything belonged to him – you know, Columbus.
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Maybe the chips give you raging hard ons?
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Whitewashing a racist term so white people can continue to use it is massively, confusingly counterproductive.
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The Japanese Kit Kat flavors are a wonder to behold as well.
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There was some Bruce Sterling (?) post on Bing Bong (?) a while back asking a similar question and then, as now, it occurred to me that the answer is advertising itself. It’s horrific.
We all think it’s just bouncing off us, but trust me, until you go for a sustained period without seeing ads, you don’t realise how totally insane it is. The reason I know how insane the situation is is that I’d sound insane if I tried to explain it to someone who sees broadcasts ads every day and thinks it’s normal.
By 2066 I think people will have rejected the current cash-for-attention system (I already have, and I wasn’t really trying), and if they saw the ad reel from a 2016 movie screening, they’d think “that’s fucked up, and entirely explains how something like Turmp could be normalised”.
There are bigger and more direct evils, of course, and always will be, but this is the one where we will say “how can we not have known?” even though we kind of did.
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If you find someone who whitewashed that racist term so white people could continue to use it, you should give them Hell. I haven’t seen anyone on this thread do it, and you’ve misinterpreted my comment if you thought that’s what I was saying.
I admit I tend to just pirate a lot of TV instead of watching it on cable due to how bad things like on demand works and I gave up on our horrible DVR (that or Netflix). I find it now hard to watch any live TV due to the commercials just seeming worse than I ever remember them. The majority of ads I see now are things in physical spaces and I do feel like I’m seeing fewer ads than the average person It is still really horrible.
I hit a gas station that had live loud video ads on the pump and really felt like something out of a Philip K Dick story.
Many of the trailers I see are for films that feel like the movie equivalent of those snacks made from other snacks. Like this King Arthur flick feels like something make out of ground up Oreo and snickers ground up and put in a deep fried bar that was then was sliced into cookies and then made into an ice cream sandwich that was also deep fried. (Which the ice cream was made out of Doritos)
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It is a Guy Ritchie King Arthur flick…
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I was expecting the “terrifying” part to be Columbus killing the Indian for his food, kind like what might have actually happened.
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Ah! Here I thought they were going out of their way to be Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels only to find out it is just the director being himself.
Still, that isn’t the only film these days where the film looks like they threw in every trope and set the blender to puree with a touch of flash cut distorted booms and pulsating atmospheres sound effects.
They were.
“Soul Man” could kinda sorta work today, given a different treatment. A privileged white kid thinks, “hey, things are so much easier for black people, why don’t I pretend to be black so I can get free stuff”, only to find out… nooope.
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“Betchum you can’tum eatum just… one-um?”
I thought so too. This humor was very dark. Probably not the best choice for selling potato chips.
What will ads be like in 200 years? Holocaust jokes?
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Or maybe they will think we had it easy.
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Both characters are obviously exaggerated, but looking at how they’re talking and how they’re dressed you can see that they were trying to show the European as much more sophisticated. He actor did play both roles in a tongue in cheek dumbed down manner but i think the observations i made do apply.
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For sure, i think there’s s kernel of a good idea in the concept. But i would find writing and making such a movie to be non-trivial, it’s doable but it wouldn’t take much for it to end up being tasteless.
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From my day, it was latchkey kids. By today’s standard, leaving a kid at home for hours with nothing to do (and certainly no pre-planned scheduled activity) would seem like child endangerment, but it’s what we did.
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Let’s hope we’ve seen the worst of that reactionary bullshit, like calling the cops on a parent for allowing their kids to walk to school.
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I guess if Sam Hyde gets a job in media again we could expect that within the next few years.
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I was referring to-
Sure it makes more sense in that specific context, but I still hope people don’t try to “reclaim” it in the way you suggest.
It still comes off as gross (and most important doesn’t through any resurgence teach good history), these phrases should just be tossed in the garbage can with the rest of the racist drivel.
