and all the pseudo-intellectuals out there who are decrying that we are not doing great pictures of the 1970s which were "real movies."
Okay, I really do not want to make this about whose art pleases who. There are some people who think the cost so someone that needs be spoken of in the same breath as Leonardo da Vinci. There are also others who think that Picasso is an example of how the 20th century ruined art and made a complete shambles out of what art was supposed to be. I will admit there are times I have been on both sides of that camp namely because there are some works of Picasso Lake “le Reve” why can see what Picasso was trying to do. On the other hand there are some very famous Picasso’s hanging in museums right now that many people are saying wonderful things about where, lo and behold, Picasso admitted he was just trying to make a buck.
Now, why am I putting Stanley and Picasso in the same sentence, in part because you will find one lover be fair these two things one is crap and the other is great, and you will find someone else that thinks the exact opposite. So, how does this relate to Bill Maher?
The thing is, parts that are considered the fringe, ones that are not considered good company at cocktail parties or salons, are very often the art that actually speaks about controversial issues.yes, Stanley’s comic books were very often the first to tackle subjects such as racism, sexism, domestic abuse, drug addiction, disease, and oh yes gender issues, and I don’t mean male and female. They did this long before the sitcoms or “films that are in line for an Oscar” ever even thought of touching them. Now I am not just talking about the fact that for example, mutants were considered a metaphor for homosexuals, although they really didn’t do much to hide it either with certain characters like Northstar being very out homosexuals. You could go even further considering that magneto is a Holocaust survivor who thinks that because of what happened to the Jews his people will not be safe unless they have an independent homeland. By the way, in the current comic books, former heroine Jean Gray is actually turning more towards magneto’s vision rather been Prof. X, sorry for the spoiler now, think of how Hollywood, television, radio and all these fine mediums that had the fine golden statues lad so far behind, how they take a look about controversial issues as if they were some new thing that they finally decided to talk about.
Sorry folks, Hollywood is patting itself on the back because now they’re finally talking about black issues, where is Stanley discussed them when he made black panther. The momentum gained by proving that yes black characters can sell, that they can be the superheroes, especially when you let a black director, a black star, and have a black villain was an example of how I see that Stanley planted made a difference in Hollywood. Yes Hollywood has been happy to make pictures with black people, but not ones where you put them behind the directors chair and not ones where they got to actually confront white people, and win. The exceptions are documentaries of Martin Luther King where the history is definitely told through the lens.
But as far as what passes for “great movies” take a picture like “the help” where some very cute rich person of the social stature gets be praised just because she exposes the fact that the fellow people in her class like to treat black people like crap. By the way, that character was played by Emma Stone, who also played a marble character, and came close to winning an Oscar for playing a white girl who played black music in “Lala land” and which was announced as the Oscar-winner even though it went to a movie made by a black person.
Honestly you can see where the pattern of other minorities getting power and respect because they played on marble character can show. Certainly in McAllen, respected Shakespearean actor for years, did not really have the power to be accepted as a homosexual until he made two movies that I’m sure people would laugh at, until he played the wizard in Lord of the rings, and until he played magneto. The idea of playing someone that was controversial was a seed that Stanley planted, that others were able to work on. Stanley, because he was not writing for the establishment that wanted it’s “guaranteed Oscar-winner” movies was able to make characters that were gray, that were not the obvious good or bad guy and that is something that our era was able to use.
And now let’s take economics, right now people like Musk, gates, or insert tech billionaire here are considered God’s and we shower them of glory. Now let’s take the move that started Marvel cinematic empire, Iron Man, where you have a very very flawed tech genius, who has to deal with alcoholism, and the fact that this technology is causing a lot of problems. The difference between Tony Stark and Bill Gates is that, unlike Bill Gates, unlike Zuckerberg, musk, Starkey is actually trying to make sure that his technological creations do not become a monster, and despite sincere efforts, he very often fails. And to that that the governments and corporations who work behind the scenes are doing their best to make sure that they get to do as much damage as possible
And since were going to politics here, let’s talk about Capt. America, where shield is a very potent metaphor for what the CIA and FBI did. Yes I know Trump is attacking those people foretold legitimate reasons, but there was a time where the CIA and FBI generally did hurt people, and they did not have Capt. America Ray to go ahead and attack them. Take a look at Capt. America was someone who was a World War II propaganda hero all the sudden especially in the last avengers movie actually fighting the very military-industrial complex that created him.
Now am I saying that all these works are high part? Honestly that will be judged by the future. And before many of you recall your nose, let’s pay attention to a certain banal form of entertainment or a bunch of female impersonators would have vegetables thrown at them for the benefit of the dirty London rabble, at a place called glue Peter were man called William Shakespeare, who like Stanley did not really originate his characters but he developed the hell out of them, we to his trade. Now if we were in Elizabethan England, and we were told that the person whose words be remembered would not be somebody in court like Ben Johnson, not someone like Christopher Marlowe, but that William Shakespeare guy that played at the Globe theater. Let’s face it we would believe it. But regardless of if Stanley does become some great author of our age, the fact is he did pave the way for people to talk about controversial subjects that the mainstream of literature could not and would not tackle because they are afraid of losing their very privileged position. Yes this is very much like how outlets like this very webpage became famous, because we know that the mainstream talking heads are not able to talk about the controversial issues, or at least reach that far beyond the low hanging fruit.
PS: if a person making this point was some professor, some literary figure, or they pointed out my last reply, someone that it tried different things and had become successful at them, I might not be as nasty. Hack the offers of South Park won a Tony for a musical. Let’s be honest though, Bill Maher has literally been doing the same act for 20 years, he pretends to be controversial, when really he is just spouting off a bunch of Archie Bunker nonsense in a droll matter. As much is he really would hate to admit it he is very much a spiritual brother of our current president. Both of them serve a controversy as a means to distract people and hide the fact that they really do not have anything new to say about issues. Furthermore, while they both hint that there really not a bunch of bigots. They sure like coming after the women in Metoo, and they flirt with saying the and word. Both to sell this whole idea that if those lefties would just shut up and listen and use some common sense that maybe things would get better. In other words both themselves lazy thoughts. And if Mr. Maher wants to go ahead and do that for living than that is his business. Not everyone gets to grow up to be John Stuart.
But if you go ahead and attack people, especially people that have a much more proven track record you, do not go ahead and wind when people stop caring about you. No I did not say he chew, I said when people stop caring about you, because right now in a war of culture. For we need to reach for masses, and we need to support the fringe, some of us will take Stanley over Mr. Maher and me day of the week. That is because among other things, Mr. Maher, with his irony that is so banal it might as well be sentimentality, as a representative of an “stupid culture. “
to Jim Carrey (who became a great poltical commentator, someone get HIm a show), or even Matt and trey from "South Park" (who also got a Tony award for a musical) you have NEVER, EVER gone beyond your comfrt zone, they place where you knwo you can churn out the same sloppy schitck and get paid.
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