Tweet I tend to avoid in films what we see in Invictus: rugby, sports, Matt Damon, Morgan-Freeman-as-Deity-figure, sports, and Clint Eastwood. I should be ashamed of avoiding Eastwood, but his recent films have often been marketed as morally simplistic (and his Republicanism doesn’t help): we know with whom we are supposed to identify and who [...]
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"V" From Fascists (1983) to Obama (2009)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 24th, 2009
Tweet V airs its winter finale tonight before resuming episodes in March 2010. If you haven’t seen ABC’s V yet, I’ll spoil it for you: the Vs symbolize President Obama. Countless articles have spelled it out: io9, Chicago Tribune, BreitBart, and Entertainment Weekly, among many others, have already foregrounded the debate. It’s very obvious. In [...]
Copying Obama: The Aeshetics of Hope
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 30th, 2009
Tweet Above: Screengrab from BarackObama.com; Bill Thompson, running for Mayor of New York this week on Nov. 3rd; Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2008 campaign page; Anthony Woods, who lost his campaign for Congressional House district, CA-10; James Perry, running for mayor of New Orleans in 2010. Any that I’m missing? The issue of websites borrowing, um, liberally [...]
The Cure for Clintonitis
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 22nd, 2009
Tweet The Cure for Clintonitis Photo by justinfeed Quit girding yourself for disappointment, liberals, and wait a little while to judge the new Chief. By Aymar Jean Christian I went to D.C. for the Inauguration because I like controlled mass hysteria. I didn’t go to see anything (I watched it on a giant TV like [...]
Stupid Outrage
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 23rd, 2008
Tweet I don’t normally write about politics, but I think the outrage at the choice of Rick Warren, who has reached out to Muslims and advocated for Christians to move on climate change and poverty, is ridiculous. Warren is enormously popular among Christians; the left should want Christians in their movement. Stupid Outrage www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/rock-warren-was-a-good-pick Aymar [...]
SCARY TREND ALERT: Obama Biopics
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 9th, 2008
Tweet Aymar Jean Christian Apparently Hollywood wants to make a movie about the 44th president before he even takes office. Photo by Matthias Winkelmann. Spike Lee stopped by my office yesterday for a chat. Okay, he didn’t come to see me. He spoke to an undergraduate class at Penn about his movies, black film and, [...]
