DO IT!
DO IT!
JUST FUCKING DO IT!
And give us the rundown pls.
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS UPDATE.
For irl reasons it took me till today to get halfway through the video (sorry kiwis, dead end standing for 9 hours a day has made me value how I use my free time).
As posted by
@manofbrasil, Zane is doubling down, sort of. He admits the video was dogshit but he doesn't really own to what he said in it, gives the vibe he is more worried he expressed himself poorly. Downright says that he played the commentary community game by engaging and should know better. Says that he came off as full of himself because he is gay, doesn't hate poor people cuz he is poor and doesn't hate Appalachia since he is a hillbilly. He says he is going to save shorter ideas for this "secret" channel.
On the John Waters video. Is OK I guess. It takes him 40 minutes to talk about Waters' feature films because we have to learn the context of who John Waters is. In a video titled 'The Filthy Life of John Waters' it makes sense to be all encompassing but it made me wonder why the fuck shouldn't I just pirate his many autobiographies myself instead of being spoonfed by this guy. I've a complicated relation with John Waters as in the guy sort of died to me when I discovered he wanted to be friends with that poser Warhol and that he was a registered Democrat but I can't shake the feeling that Zane is whitewashing Waters in a way.
For instance while talking about
Pink Flamingos and Divine's drag performance (roughly 1 hour, 55 minutes) he talks about how queer humour was effectively shock humour pushing personal boundaries (his example is mirrors near urinals at gay clubs) and laments the edge was lost for mainstream appeal. While talking about
Desperate Living, Zane talks about how Waters had gay actors play straight characters and vice versa (roughly 1 hour and 38 minutes) and how usually in his scripts straight characters in positions of power are full on degenerates whereas sexual minorities tend to live and let live (arguably this point is an expansion of something he said earlier in the video about how Waters' early work is a representation of straight culture), he then goes to say that this is similar to real life as queer people tend to be the ones that care the most about others while straight people in power abuse them and yes, he mentions the groomer meme (roughly 1 hour, 45 minutes) three minutes after that he mentions that
Desperate Living had a scene of underage nudity he excuses as being normal for the time and after that talks about how they risked the life of a baby for a scene.
I don't know Waters or the Dreamlanders that well but I couldn't stop thinking about how funny it was that you can tell gay generations apart by how they explain their actions. OG gays do shit because its funny or think it looks cool, nugays have to make an essay explaining how every little action has context rooted in something else.
I know that some people here don't like him but in his review of The Hills Have Eyes (a review spawned because of Zane), TAO said that civilization has a monopoly on savagery (this in response to Wes Craven talking about Sawney Bean) and in my head the only conclussion I can come up from Zane's video on Waters is that the upper class has a monopoly on filth. Waters and the Dreamlanders were bougies that engaged in petty crime for shits and giggles and did what they did for reactions. Waters himself had some almost sociopathic traits like enjoying car accidents and going to big media trials 'to relax'. John Waters is distinctly an individual that could only have spawned from the upper class of New England, he can be as gay and have as bad of taste as he wants but trying to intellectualize his every decision as a big indectment on society like he is some film school current year auteur is almost as funny as his cameo in
The Chipmunks.
