Love the description of you stumbling on TCM in London. “one of the biggest mistakes of my life” YIKES! I hate horror movies and I’ve never seen it. Now I know I never will.
Gunna have to go watch the Beach Bum now. I started mid90s and ended up not finishing it, because of distraction but also the pit-of-your-stomach quality you describe. I guess it’s better for a psycho to channel that energy to their art than actual harm, eh? The “sleaze” has been replaced, at best, with the anti-hero, but even that is rare (and in movies like Three Billboards they have to have some sort of redemption.) looking forward to what you take on next!
Sleaze in not the right term. According to my Webster’s dictionary the definition of sleaze is: “lacking in substance, flimsy, of poor quality, shoddy.” There is plenty of that in the arts right now, more than I can remember at any point in my life. I think what you are lamenting is a culture that allowed the expression of a transgressive adolescent male ethos. No mistake that Texas Chainsaw was made in the mid 70’s, a period that many consider the height of American cinema. We have banished masculinity and replaced it with a therapeutic ickiness that is pretty sleazy.
Love the description of you stumbling on TCM in London. “one of the biggest mistakes of my life” YIKES! I hate horror movies and I’ve never seen it. Now I know I never will.
What about the musician who peed on the guy’s face onstage?
I agree, the Wokesters are pious and annoying, but I do think there are sleazy flowers peeking through cracks in the concrete.
Gunna have to go watch the Beach Bum now. I started mid90s and ended up not finishing it, because of distraction but also the pit-of-your-stomach quality you describe. I guess it’s better for a psycho to channel that energy to their art than actual harm, eh? The “sleaze” has been replaced, at best, with the anti-hero, but even that is rare (and in movies like Three Billboards they have to have some sort of redemption.) looking forward to what you take on next!
Sleaze in not the right term. According to my Webster’s dictionary the definition of sleaze is: “lacking in substance, flimsy, of poor quality, shoddy.” There is plenty of that in the arts right now, more than I can remember at any point in my life. I think what you are lamenting is a culture that allowed the expression of a transgressive adolescent male ethos. No mistake that Texas Chainsaw was made in the mid 70’s, a period that many consider the height of American cinema. We have banished masculinity and replaced it with a therapeutic ickiness that is pretty sleazy.
You can't kill the sleaze. It is just hiding in plain sight somewhere else now.