In a message dated 99-10-19 16:54:51 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<< Highly impressionable kids that see Fight Club are
going to do whatever highly impressionable kids do
when they see pro wrestling on cable or Columbine
footage on the news - they are going to soak it up and
make ill-advised decisions for themselves. >>
I ran out and watched Fight Club on opening day, and must also throw in a
word extolling its virtues. it's one of a string of films making me happy
after a mostly shitty film summer . . . american beauty, three kings, and now
this. muy, muy excelente.
one thing that was particularly funny about all of this was that on the news
some week and a half before fight club was even released, they showed footage
of these stupid teenagers boxing each other, with a number of teenagers
cheering them on. now, it maybe a bit prejudgmental, but i'm going to go out
on a limb and say these guidos had probably not read the book, and they
certainly hadn't seen the movie; it wasn't out yet. but here they were, on
the news, as some talking head told me that this was "probably an influence
of the film fight club."
god knows, it couldn't have anything to do with the very
roman-christians-to-the-lions-like spectacle sport of boxing. and certainly
not WWF or WCW. (has anybody seen the news broadcasts of kids setting up
wrestling matches in their backyard? there are few things funnier and more
disturbing than the sight of 15 and 16 year old kids beating each other up
with flourescent light tubes and folding chairs). it's a literate hollywood
film that they haven't seen yet. that's what caused it.
ridiculously,
star
