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The cigarette thing is HUGE politically and this needs to be dialed into the equation.
sunny wrote:8bit, I think we can predict with some certainty that Rusty will do a better acting job than Alex Jones. Besides, RC is not entirely unfamiliar with the Austin scene.
Except, they could even wow the world by giving us an even better than real-life politically-dangerous Bill Hicks, and it still wouldn't count for shit, for some reason. We'd be hugely entertained and invigorated for a day or a week, but...at the end of the day all we did was sit and watch a movie.
A movie about a guy who was brilliant and died young.
There are plenty of ways to show him at his dangerous best, to satisfy those who admire him because of his dangerousness, but to also tie an emotional albatross around the neck of his dangerous brilliance, so that the subconscious message recieved is "No, you really don't want to be a hero like Bill Hicks was. Better to keep your head down."
FourthBase wrote:Good point, but that subtext is hardly subconscious is it?
And again it's only the message you receive if you choose to receive it. And it poses the dilemma of how to spread the word about heroes like RFK or Lennon who were ultimately beaten down by The Man without implicitly reinforcing The Man's threat by depicting their historically factual downfall. One suggestion: Alt-history. Fuck what actually happened in the end. Fuck the fucking tragedies to hell.
erosoplier wrote:Alt history has a smidgin less chance of saving us than the truth does, so I'll be sticking with the truth, or our/my best approximation of it.
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