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Post by Scott on Nov 23, 2018 18:27:30 GMT
I watched this thing. It seems that Norman Mailer used to hang around with his friends trying to talk like they were in the Mafia. They decided this would make a great movie, so they filmed themselves sitting around in a room improvising mafia-like dialog. I don't know why the sound quality was so bad. Filmed in 16mm. Called Wild 90 because it's 90 minutes long. Just embarrassing. Available from the Criterion Collection.
Includes this bit of improvised dialog:
"You know what you are? You're the prunes."
"Prunes? You're the dunes."
"Yeah, you're the real prunes."
What with video camera everywhere, ANYBODY could make a movie like this today. This movie should be an inspiration.
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Post by JD on Nov 26, 2018 4:54:49 GMT
People just use YouTube instead, nowadays. Costs less and gets more coverage.
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Post by Scott on Nov 28, 2018 17:29:24 GMT
Yeah, it was a different time. Norman Mailer got the thing shown in theaters and it was reviewed in the New York Times and Time magazine among others. Today there are the "mumblecore" movies, cheap movies with bad sound, but those were technically brilliant compared to this.
Mailer was known for his massive ego and no sense of humor. Kanye West could make a movie, but he would spend a lot more on it and I would imagine there are people paid to stop him from humiliating himself. Are there any egomaniacs willing to make a movie this cheap and this terrible who are big enough that anyone would pay attention to it?
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