HeyJaredThehumangaze
Film critic and screenwriter offering weekly reviews of older films (anything before 1980) in attempts to expand my film knowledge. I am interested in themes and subtexts of films and love to dive deep into them. Come with me on this journey.
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Fear of a Black Hat - Showing Love Through Parody (opens the original)
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When I say, “music mockumentary”, your brain shouts back, This Is Spinal Tap. But the Rob Reiner classic is not the only film to use this style of comedy to explore a popular music genre and the culture surrounding it. Rusty Cundieff’s Fear of a Black Hat skewers the then-still-rising genre of hip hop in an absurdist yet honest manner. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JAgR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
Modern Dating is a Horror Film (opens the original)
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If you’ve been on the internet within the past year, chances are you’ve run across some discourse about Gen Z’s lack of experience and enthusiasm for sex, both in real life and in its depiction in film. There have been many panicked think pieces and social media arguments about what this means for the generation’s future and offering potential reasons for why this may be the case. Among the potential causes were the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of the #metoo movement, and Gen Z’s overreliance on
Hiding From Reality At Camp Miasma (opens the original)
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Despite how reliant our modern society is on screens, artists (at least in the mainstream) seem terrified to use them in storytelling. I understand why authors, screenwriters, and directors would hate using screens in their stories; they can be an annoyingly convenient solution to a conflict that you must write around. These frustrations lead many storytellers to purposefully write modern technology out of the stories or write period pieces to avoid it altogether. Smartphones, computer screens,
Hoops On Screen (opens the original)
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Before I fell in love with cinema, basketball was my main obsession. While I have a general interest in most sports, none of them have been as central to my life as the game of basketball.I honestly never looked at my love for basketball and cinema as all that different; not just because I watched both on a screen, but because at their core, both basketball and cinema are storytelling. The rivalries, upsets, and unlikely heroes mirror those of cinema’s greatest tales. So, what about when the two
The Odyssey Chooses Honor Over Survival (opens the original)
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There’s a moment early on in Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey that quietly acts as the film’s thesis statement. It isn’t a bombastic action sequence or a meaty monologue (though the film contains more than enough of both). It’s a short, quiet scene that can feel like filler when you’re watching, but when the credits rolled it was all I could think about.In a flashback sequence, we see Odysseus (Matt Damon) explaining to his trusted servant Eumaus (played wonderful
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