Show notes
(2:34) The timing of JOKER, why its the perfect movie for this podcast, most critics go in to a sequel with a cynical take, same week Scorsese says comic book movies aren't cinema, we get the Scorsese-verse, something Marvel doesn't do in its film, That 70's movie, how Only Built for Cuban Linx 2 by Raekwon connects to sequels, Paul Newman to Stephen Baldwin continuing the Slapshot Franchise, Wu Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams as growth, does Joker get away with any crimes if set in modern day, the death of cinema, Marvel as myths(17:21) what makes a film cinematic, least cinematic movie: The Expendables, how we watch 80's action movies, Too much self-awareness, watching Larry David and Woody Allen hangout, what is cinema? what is art? What is music?, does art need to be good to be art?, Can you view art made by bad people, Is Hitler a failed artist?, why can't we have negative art, seeing art in everything, art & crime as a response, Overview Satellite images look like paintings, underrated film Revolver, making a different movie like Mother!(27:42) Happy Joker was made, can movies incite violence, Stanford study on how the media covers shootings, pushing different narratives, suppressing anger in the suburbs, Joker inadvertently starts wealth war, Does Aurora shooting theater still play movies on that screen, turning murder into an attraction, serial killer love, The Killing Joke comic book(37:53) If you follow anybody they would be sympathetic, Venom & Maleficent as heroes masquerading as anti-heroes, Castor Troy in Face/Off, Ed Kemper on Season 2 of Mindhunter, The Iceman, focusing on bad people rather than giving victims attention, does glorifying violence lead to more violence, after columbine censorship with PG-13 glorifies violence by not showing full effects, Hip Hop censorship, isn't criticism the purest kind of democracy, Medhi Hasan's deconstructed podcast on looking at public officials positives and negatives after death(49:02) How we viewed Michael Jackson after he died, our over-praising of celebrities, audiences apprehension to clapping, why clap if the creators aren't in the theater