( news flash : they didn't )
A new movie coming down the pike, looks very interesting.
TEENAGE
A New Film by Matt Wold
based on the book by Jon Savage
Jon Savage is the writer of England's Dreaming, the definitive history of the Punk Movement, that became the film The Filth and the Fury. God Save the Queen and all.
Pre war universe, there were no " teenagers " ... that Gap time between childhood and Volvo ownership. Post war, fat rich America didn't think little Dick and Jane needed to get married and start farming quite so early. But it was not with out its consequences....
I just saw , somewhere, a good long piece on the woes of women folk today and their longing for a grown up to marry. Turns out in 2011 little princess Ashely is finishing up her phd, md, juris dr. etc, while prince Tyler has been sitting on his ass playing video games, basically still in footie pj's...
The infantilization of the American male is complete! ( somehow my side wins..) An example of this would be current Hollywood, where my (12 year old) Thirty-five year old brothers reign supreme :
TOP TEN 2010 MOVIES
( things that make you go boom )
1 Toy Story 3 BV $415,004,880
2 Alice in Wonderland (2010) BV $334,191,110
3 Iron Man 2 Par. $312,433,331
4 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Sum. $300,531,751 ( one for the ladies )
5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 WB $294,915,214
6 Inception WB $292,576,195
7 Despicable Me Uni. $251,513,985
8 Shrek Forever After P/DW $238,736,787
9 How to Train Your Dragon P/DW $217,581,231
10 Tangled BV $198,526,569 3,603 $48,767,052
11 The Karate Kid Sony $176,591,618
12 Tron Legacy BV $171,891,000
Our male attention span is that of a not too bright fruit fly ( with add ) .. we are going down and taking you all with us, From an NPR story last week we get :
Stop by one of the 200 or so Borders stores that soon will be closing, and you can pick through the rubble. Under the Everything Must Go signs, you will find the building blocks of the last half-century of popular culture — in discounted disarray.Here are the self-help books that promise to make us better people. There are the novels — by Tom Clancy and Janet Evanovich — that make us think about the world we've created. Over there are history tomes and workout tapes and compilation CDs and bright boxes containing the do-it-yourself language course Rosetta Stone.
Most of these are well-conceived, thoughtfully crafted objects — colorfully packaged, gift-wrap ready — for the home, the office, the dorm room, the nursery. They are whole things — meant to be consumed from beginning to end, front to back, A to Z. The problem is: We just don't do whole things anymore. We don't read complete books — just excerpts. We don't listen to whole CDs — just samplings. We don't sit through whole baseball games — just a few innings. Don't even write whole sentences. Or read whole stories like this one.
We care more about the parts and less about the entire. We are into snippets and smidgens and clips and tweets. We are not only a fragmented society, but a fragment society. ( the rest )
Talking 'bout my G-g-g-eneration.....( yeah, its all their fault..)
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