To have a “BUZZ WORTHY” movie in Hollywood, one must have to have a “big star” or a “big script” or a “big director” or a “big studio” or all four. In other words, if there is no reason to care about your movie, the worse thing could happen…the critics could ignore it. No critics, no pieces in Variety or the Hollywood Reporter. And few come to the box office on opening weekend, which means even less on the all-important “word of mouth” weekend, i.e. weekend number two. And the studio and the Director and the beautiful young stars have failed the studio and your movie is banished to the streaming wars on cable television. The horror! To this point, since I have written several film franchises of grand proportion, epic imagery and universal appeal (and no I am not kidding!), I pay attention to what the next big thing might be coming out of Hollywood. And here it is.
Bones and All is a cross country romp about two young and attractive cannibals. The inter-racial couple must eat other humans. Why? That’s not important. The only thing that matters is the shock value of it all, the mood and the music. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame composed the soundtrack. Trent said and I quote, “We sat in here — I don’t think we even got up to pee once — we were spellbound by how he had taken this material and infused humanity, vulnerability and life into this, and it was breathtaking.” He adds, “We were in awe and felt like it doesn’t even need music.” Translation…’Really glad to do a movie. After my divorce and last rehab, I’m straight out of cash.’ Now that is a little cynical, but not a great stretch…right?
What the Bones and All cynics and critics will most comment on will be the release date. Wednesday before Thanksgiving will give the movie a FIVE DAY WEEKEND. So even if Bones And All is a snooze fest, it could win the weekend and therefore might get a word of mouth audience next weekend. But let’s unpack that further and think about the symbolism of our upcoming holiday.
Thanksgiving…a time for family members to travel from near and far to be together and be thankful for their lives and their loves and their opportunities. Does Hollywood REALLY want us to contemplate eating people instead of Turkey? I can’t get there…can you? And yeah…we have all been tempered in recent years to not discuss things that could “Cause Mother Unrest.” We all know the subjects, Trump, the Clintons, Q Anon, Congress, Stop the Steal, Abortion. It seems like the list keeps growing…right? It was not always this way with us.
In the 50’s we worried about Communist infiltration and intercontinental ballistic missiles from Russia. In the 60’s we worried about the Vietnam War. In the 70’s…what Disco and Drugs? In the 80’s AIDS. And what of today? Transgenderism, Critical Race Theory, Fentanyl, Mass Shootings, Wild Fires, Invasion on our Southern Border? You get the picture. Has the internet and smart phones made us so susceptible to the “next big thing,” that we cannot even keep track of our latest anxiety? Or is our world really and truly crumbling all around us? Now that is a heavy lift and material for many more OP/Eds to come. Let’s get back to Hollyweird.
When Tarantino came out with “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,” I had no interest in the movie. Neither leads had done anything of significance in a while…if ever. Further to portray an actor and a stunt man in a movie seemed like yet one more Hollywood indulgence, i.e. in real life and in the movies, “these two get what they want, do what they want, sleep with whoever they want” and I think we have all seen quite enough of that…thank you. Tarantino’s twist of course is Charles Manson and his crew don’t kill Sharon Tate and her unborn child and instead, get killed and get caught. Okay…cool. That said, what are the chances that young Timothy and his exotic lover in Bones and All will realize their destructive path and “find Jesus?” In Hollywood…really? This is the same town that gave the Oscar for Movie of the Year to a film about a woman falling in love with a bi-pedal reptile. Just crack open “Paradise Lost” and see what John Milton has to say about Eve and the Snake in the garden. If you ever needed evidence of the Illuminati in Hollywood, The Shape of Water was state’s evidence NUMBER ONE. That said, hasn’t the weirdness of Hollywood invaded every space of our “body social” in the United States?
I don’t know how attentive anyone is anymore, but the next time you are on the bus or train or at a grocery store or a shopping mall, take note of the public that walks by. I don’t mean the girls with all their skin showing…that’s for the boys of course. I mean the weird hair, the weird piercings, the weird tattoos…and all the weirdos walking around. Have you ever seen more boys who want to be girls, or girls who want to be boys? Does the reader believe this is all about “getting attention” or “getting noticed” or “getting love” or “getting back” at their parents?
Or could there be something more sinister going on? And yeah…I am teasing my next opinion piece. For now, it is late Sunday morning and I am out of time. If I don’t get there soon, I will have to stand in the back. Happily around here, it seems more and more folks want to take a meeting with my Carpenter. Happily we are far, far away from Hollyweird
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“…When Tarantino came out with “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,” I had no interest in the movie….”
Bill Maher first hosted the show “Politically Incorrect” on the Comedy Central channel in the mid 1990s. It actually was the kind of show that tried to live up to its name at that time, presenting opposing viewpoints in ways that occasionally resulted in engaging TV. It’s where I got my first exposure to Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, to name a few. On one of the early episodes Tarantino was a guest, and he was talking about the appeal of living in the Manson family to a young aimless man who enjoyed sex and drugs. When I heard about the release of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, I realized he had finally fleshed out the plot 25 years later.
Albert,
Thanks for your comment.
I am always intrigued by the “germ” of an idea.
So from one descendent of Constantine…to another, may we live
long enough to see sanity return to the Western World.
Robert of Rosemont