Talk About Movies: Part 4
07-07-2020
, 09:38 PM
if you have any other similar books (not just about Disney obv) pls let me know.
I love all the entertainment industry books by peter biskind.
07-08-2020
, 06:36 AM
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Alexander Hamilton came from a poor background and was sometimes disparagingly called The Creole by his peers. But he was also a ruthless man of self-interest and very little principle, his aims in life limited to accumulating fortune and ingratiating himself to members of the aristocracy to which he felt he deserved to belong.
He did not believe in democracy. He thought most people were little more than common swine and not capable of governing themselves. He was an adamant proponent of regressive tax policies, marching soldiers against the common workers among his own countrymen, so he could force them at the point of a bayonet to service the interest payments on his speculative investments. He proposed a monarchy and senators for life at the Constitutional Convention (and he wanted all of these people to be selected by rich, intelligent men like himself). He was the biggest supporter of Wall St. banks at the expense of everyone else, but one could not accuse him of making inequality worse, because he would not consider that to be an accusation. He would have gladly admitted that he believed most of the population merely existed to enrich greater men like himself.
Everything Alexander Hamilton stood for was rejected by the U.S. public over 200 years ago. Everything we know as the good old U.S.A. was the product of Jeffersonian Democracy, Thomas Jefferson being Alexander Hamilton's arch-rival.
So I find Hamilton the musical, the movie, whichever, kinda disgusting to be honest, it's a story in which everything except for fanfiction parts about this horrible and scandalous man were left out.
Besides the fact that it's kinda whatever artistically, to make a story about that man and then dress it up with hip hop and minority actors and sell it as the great play of wokeism ... at $500 a ticket no less ... I find it all rather off-putting.
He did not believe in democracy. He thought most people were little more than common swine and not capable of governing themselves. He was an adamant proponent of regressive tax policies, marching soldiers against the common workers among his own countrymen, so he could force them at the point of a bayonet to service the interest payments on his speculative investments. He proposed a monarchy and senators for life at the Constitutional Convention (and he wanted all of these people to be selected by rich, intelligent men like himself). He was the biggest supporter of Wall St. banks at the expense of everyone else, but one could not accuse him of making inequality worse, because he would not consider that to be an accusation. He would have gladly admitted that he believed most of the population merely existed to enrich greater men like himself.
Everything Alexander Hamilton stood for was rejected by the U.S. public over 200 years ago. Everything we know as the good old U.S.A. was the product of Jeffersonian Democracy, Thomas Jefferson being Alexander Hamilton's arch-rival.
So I find Hamilton the musical, the movie, whichever, kinda disgusting to be honest, it's a story in which everything except for fanfiction parts about this horrible and scandalous man were left out.
Besides the fact that it's kinda whatever artistically, to make a story about that man and then dress it up with hip hop and minority actors and sell it as the great play of wokeism ... at $500 a ticket no less ... I find it all rather off-putting.
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Hamilton has always been one of my favorite historical characters and founding fathers. Read the outstanding biography by Ron Chernow. Because of that I don't want to see whatever this play is because I am sure it would distort one of my favorite historical eras and players.
What have you read, Chernow?
07-08-2020
, 11:59 AM
07-08-2020
, 11:49 PM
If you'll do TV subject, I loved the two Late Shift books (Letterman/Leno and Conan/Leno).
For the same type of narrative non-fiction but not entertainment, there's Hackers (computer industry up through 1984, does include Sierra the game company) and Liar's Poker (80's Wall Street).
Important Cinema Club podcast on film books; I actually don't know if I've read any of them yet. They mention Biskind. They're written out in the post if you don't wanna listen: https://filmtrap.com/icc-62-best-fil...-according-us/
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