Note: to folks who think I was arguing Do The Right Thing was therefore "inaccessible" in my comparison last night, no. It's the best film of all-time. Readily accessible in every way (it's just many people ignore the clarity of the point out of fear)
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
No, it was just a typically muddled and fruitless comparison, so much so that one wonders not only if you've seen either movie, but *any* movie
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Replying to @flipyourface
You should read my new essay. Then let's talk. For reals. Go ahead.
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Replying to @flipyourface
Thought experiment: what would you say to the idea that Spike Lee said I wrote the best essay ever written about Do The Right Thing? Does that change your believe that I've never "seen it" - Is our dialogue fruitless? Or do you just want to talk shit?
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Replying to @flipyourface @FilmCritHULK
this seems unnecessarily difficult towards someone who's genuinely just enthused about movies
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Replying to @samreids @FilmCritHULK
I really don't have anything nice to say here, so let's just say that if you like the guy's writing and thinking, bless. I've finally had enough.
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There's a difference between not liking someone's POV/style and being completely and utterly unwilling to engage in dissenting debate.
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Running into Phantom Thread, so maybe you can gift me with a surprise when I get out: what the fuck does DTRT's (glorious) street theatre have to do with the (glorious) Afrofuturism of BP? Apart from being wholly uncompromised expressions of black filmmakers? Looking forward.
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Well if you read the essay, as you refuse to do, you would know that you're just arguing about textures instead of the core thematic message of duality of the black identity, which is virtually the same in both films. But again. The gifts already sitting there.
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Replying to @brendanowicz @FilmCritHULK and
The qualifier is doing a lot of work in that tweet. And frankly, if its connection to Do the Right Thing is a pseudo-recreation of an MLK/Malcolm X dynamic in a comic book movie, Bryan Singer did it 20 years ago (though not as well or in a specifically black context)
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