POP ART, WHERE WE FIND THE POP CULTURE IN ART AND THE ART IN POP CULTURE.

 

REBELS WITH AND WITHOUT A CAUSE: Join me and filmmaker Derek Nguyen (The

Housemaid, now available on Amazon) as we talk Hair and No Regrets for OurYouth, two films about young people protesting a war.

 

“It’s the age of Aquarius.”

War. What is it good for. Absolutely nothing, except maybe munitions manufacturers,politicians, war contractors, oh, and of course movies, can’t forget movies…Soundslike it’s time for Episode 98 of Pop Art, where we find the pop culture in artand the art in pop culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a moviefrom popular culture, and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indieside of cinema with a connection to it. For this episode, I am happy to welcomeas my guest, writer, director, producer Derek Nguyen,who has chosen as his film the Milos Foreman musical Hair, while I have chosen anearly Akira Kurosawa film, No Regrets for Our Youth, both films about youngpeople protesting war.

 

And in this episode we answer such questions: Why is there such a dearth of

war protest films? What great songs did they leave out of Hair? What is thereal history behind the events in No Regrets…? What did the authors of theoriginal Broadway version of Hair think of the movie? Is Henry David Thoreaufull of it? What musical pieces are played on piano in No Regrets…? Where isthe lyric The Rest is Silence from? What doesn’t quite compute about the endingof Hair? Where does Nicholas Ray appear in Hair?

 

Check out Nguyen’s IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1532529/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_dereke%2520nguyen.

The Housemaid can be seen on Amazon Prime.

 

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My books, More Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader,

The Starving Artists and Other Stories and The Five Corporations and One TrueReligion can be found at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=howard+casner&ref=nb_sb_noss

 

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