Boomer Narcissism Continues: Greengrass To Direct Film Based On Documentary Nobody Went To See — Not Even Narcissistic Boomers
Posted by Dirty Harry on Monday, August 11th, 2008
And not a bar of soap between them…
As if today’s anti-war crowd wasn’t bad enough, we now get to go back in time to dirty, filthy hippie anti-warriors courtesy of Paul Shaky-Cam Greengrass. Here’s the official synopsis:
Based on the 2007 documentary “Chicago 10,” by–
You know what, I’m going to stop there. The documentary this is based on grossed a total of $177 thousand. Even liberals didn’t go. Anyone care to debate how Hollywood’s money driven? Anyone…? Anyone…?
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alexdroogon 11 Aug 2008 at 8:17 am 1Did you ever hear of the Seattle Seven? That was me… and six other guys.
Carloson 11 Aug 2008 at 8:17 am 2They’ve already made their money. Now it’s just about getting laid.
billypaintbrushon 11 Aug 2008 at 8:22 am 3They want to relive the moment when their lives had meaning. They were so needed then, and can be again.
Maybe they could do a 60’s trilogy. Gulf of Tonkin, the 64 Daisy commercial and Chicago 68. Then along with popcorn, the concession stands would sell weed, helping viewers feel the effect.
Far out, man
Bartlessthescriveneron 11 Aug 2008 at 8:32 am 4‘Relive the moment’.
These people are Sixties re-enactors.
bradon 11 Aug 2008 at 8:35 am 5I thought this was about the Chicago seven, what does that have to do with people called the ” baby boomer” generation?
mjkon 11 Aug 2008 at 8:59 am 6Come on, man, this thing is totes going to make its money back in DVD sales and repeated viewings on HBO. Or some such BS like that.
boqueronmanon 11 Aug 2008 at 9:00 am 7So the anti-war activities - epitomized by the Chicago Seven and the Days of Rage, and all the later demonstrations and proselytizing - have nothing to do with the formation of political understandings and positions by the impressionable - and, yes, largely ignorant - Baby Boomers? Gee, let me think about that for at least one nanosecond.
Furious Don 11 Aug 2008 at 9:05 am 8I have a personal rule banning all nostalgia for what Kent Brockman accurately described as a shrill pointless decade.
wfon 11 Aug 2008 at 9:13 am 9Ever noticed how much of the global image of America is created by Brits (like Greengrass) and Canadians (like Haggis)?
JohnFNWayneon 11 Aug 2008 at 9:15 am 10Showtime did this 20-odd years ago. The judge in the original trial, which they deemed a fascist and did everything to portray as such, came off as the real hero while the hippies whined because he wouldn’t let Joni Mitchell sing a folk song from the witness stand. Narcissism indeed.
bradon 11 Aug 2008 at 9:16 am 11A lot of boomers don’t remember a lot about the sixties because when the sixties ended the boomers ranged in age from 5 years of age to 23.
Carolynon 11 Aug 2008 at 9:17 am 12The company that distributed “Chicago 10″ is called Roadside Attractions. It’s the same company that distributed Tim Robbins’ “The Lucky Ones” - and it’s also releasing a film called “I.O.U.S.A.” (whose film poster shows a ‘for sale’ sign on the White House). Ahuh.
Well, you have to admire their consistency. They didn’t make money before and they’re damned well not going to start now.
GMKon 11 Aug 2008 at 9:41 am 13United 93 made my baby boomer friend’s vagina hurt extremely bad. He more or less found it jingoistic or something. I can’t remember the terminology he used, but he made it clear he didn’t like the tone… and I excoriated him for that. All he did was show how it went, and my hippy friend literally couldn’t take it without getting upset because nobody moderated America’s righteousness with some abuse.
I don’t talk to him anymore. But anyway, if Greengrass can make a hippy that mad, then he’s not all bad.
Kon 11 Aug 2008 at 9:46 am 14Personally, I think this period is way past due for a dramatic treatment, but from a right POV. The book “Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the 60s” by David Horwitz, details the immaturity, venality, violence and dishonesty of the new left and it’s a fascinating picture and way past due for an honest cinematic treatment.
I was on campus for some of the student riots at UCLA (Cambodian incursion) and a movie based on this period would be a very entertaining story. The mobs marching about the school ripping up classrooms and breaking windows. The riot police marching in like a military occupation, their proclivity to use a nightstick first and talk second. The students taunting them and bragging about it later. Their arrogant anger at the police shutting down the campus buildings which the mob had just that day tried to destoy. The blood on the sidewalk where the protesting Leninists had a fought a pitched battle with the protesting Trotskyites. The occupation of the adminstration buildings and closing of the streets by the protesters and the attempts by the professors (in their Saabs) to drive past the barracades to get home. The collapse of the protest movement with the end of the draft, and the stunned disappointment of the true believer radicals who thought they were going to be marching on Washington any day.
Just reading the Playboy interviews with the new left radicals will give you some idea about who far out politically these people were, and they’re still around. Good friends of Mr. Obama, for example. This was a time in US history that set up the totalitarian mechanisms of the left that’s still felt today (e.g. college “women’s studies” departments) and yet it remains an obscure period of time. If there’s one concrete effect of the leftist monopoly of the media, it’s leaving this period of time unexamined and uncritiqued.
bradon 11 Aug 2008 at 10:16 am 15I’m curious to know who the very powerful baby boomers were during the sixties.
Everybody in that picture of the Chicago Seven are of John Mcain’s generation, except for Dellinger who was born in 1915. The rest of them are from the 1930’s with the exception of the youngster Davis born in 1941.
There isn’t a boomer in the bunch.
alexdroogon 11 Aug 2008 at 10:29 am 16“United 93 made my baby boomer friend’s vagina hurt extremely bad.”
Well, it WAS a 757.
Gideon7on 11 Aug 2008 at 10:32 am 17Whenever my Obama-loving brother waxes nostalgic about his memories of the 1960s and the anti-war protests, I remind him he was born in 1968.
John MCLainon 11 Aug 2008 at 10:44 am 18“United 93 made my baby boomer friend’s vagina hurt extremely bad.”
That is so damn funny. If I ever get a tattoo, that’s it.
Die Hard Fan
GMKon 11 Aug 2008 at 11:56 am 19I’ll be here all week!
Try the veal!
Audietooon 11 Aug 2008 at 1:04 pm 20In my book, I date the boomers as those born between ‘46 and ‘56. The free Speech ‘movement’ started in 1964, ( they had been whining and talking since birth) but after this date they have never.shut.up. My favorite sixties memory is the Black Panthers walking around on campus and in the buildings with rifles over their shoulders. Scared the crap out of the professors, who for once, didn’t go out of their way to defend this “desperate expression of their understandable frustration.)
WadeZon 11 Aug 2008 at 1:22 pm 21I don’t know what everyones getting so upset about, I really like the Chicago 10, especially when they sing that song “24 or 6 to 4″
WadeZon 11 Aug 2008 at 1:29 pm 22That song should be “25 or 6 to 4″.
Rusty Jameson 11 Aug 2008 at 1:55 pm 23What’s the box office take for Little Dieter Needs To Fly?
I don’t even get the point this post. Are you saying it is bad for directors to make films that guaranteed blockbusters? Why?
Or is it that the movie is set in the sixties? No more movies in the sixties?
Seriously, I don’t get it.
Rufus Vs. The Daily Headlineson 11 Aug 2008 at 2:30 pm 24[…] “K” left an interesting comment at the main site. Apparently she was present for some of the UCLA riots and offers some great, first hand […]
Mr. Mooseon 11 Aug 2008 at 4:08 pm 25This is a little off topic for this site, but does anyone know of any good books about this subject(Chicago ‘68 or any of the student “movements”, riots, etc…)?
steevyon 11 Aug 2008 at 6:54 pm 26When I see footage of those campus protests I so wish I WAS one of those billy club wielding riot police.Oh the joy of cracking hippy skulls!!