Continuing with the idea of weblogging as talk radio, linked below are clips from my two favorite talk radio movies. I wrote about Talk Radio in a post at Thanksgiving. I featured Pump Up The volume in a post about long-tail television. Both films, incidentally, illustrate the idea of infotainment necessary for a successful weblog.
In the Pump Up The volume clip, I’m showing a scene that I thought was particularly well done. The film itself wavers between anarchic wannabe-profundity and formula teen-angst melodrama. But the pomo-meets-goth love interest is fun. In this scene Mark Hunter and Laura De Niro shyly explore the undiscovered country of intimacy. Samantha Mathis, as Laura, is delightfully ingenuous I think.
The clip from Talk Radio is much, much darker. It’s the agonizing climax of the third act, and it’s just enough to make you shriek for relief. Everything is perfect, script, acting, direction, staging, music. Eric Bogosian is off-the-charts excellent, and Oliver Stone, despite his ever-lengthening list of shortcomings, shows himself here to be the complete auteur.
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Brian Brady says:
You have to wonder if Stone wasn’t asking those questions of his audience.
July 3, 2007 — 5:24 pm