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Post by winddemon2 on Aug 13, 2014 1:35:07 GMT -5
After viewing the self-smarmy poetic waxing of these people in their brick-wall smoky cafes, i officially like dirty hippies even more now. That dancing flute music was so execrable; that one guy reading poetry while stringing his guitar. I mean wow.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Aug 13, 2014 12:53:31 GMT -5
After viewing the self-smarmy poetic waxing of these people in their brick-wall smoky cafes, i officially like dirty hippies even more now. That dancing flute music was so execrable; that one guy reading poetry while stringing his guitar. I mean wow. Hey, careful, there. I happen to identify as a hippie, just not the smelly, grubby, media-stereotype hippie you see in movies and TV shows of the '60s and early '70s. Also keep in mind that most film and TV portayals of Beats and Beat counterculture in the '50s and early '60s were also cheesy media stereotypes. In fact, one of the things I found most amusing about The Rebel Set was its horribly inaccurate, caricatured, stereotyped portrayal of Beat culture and the coffee-house scene. That said, the scene in the apartment with the blissed-out chick in the black leotard prancing spastically around the room with that bongo-and-flute music playing on the hi-fi was pretty funny -- especially because while she's dancing around, there's a guy right nearby trying to work on a painting. Oh, sure, right... I'm an artist by profession (graphic design/illustration), and there's no way in hell I'd let some goofy chick dance all over my studio while I'm trying to work. That Beat cafe that Tucker runs is pretty silly, too; as I recall, most of the real Beat coffee houses of that era were much scruffier, and had exposed brick walls because it was all they could afford, not because it was cool. If anything, Tucker's place looks like one of those faux "Beat"-style coffee joints with slam poetry that were popular for a while in the '90s. |
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Post by winddemon2 on Aug 14, 2014 2:46:26 GMT -5
Youre a graphic designer/ illustrator? Hey me too. Guess i am by now disillusioned by these 'artsy' ones.
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Post by milospinstripe on Sept 20, 2014 2:44:12 GMT -5
Yeah I don't like the way The Rebel Set portrayed beatniks, that was nothing more than a stereotypical, Hollywood caricature.
I like the real beatniks, those are my idols. People like Eddy Crane, his main squeeze Iris, and his partner in crime Moon, those are the real Beatniks. Singing in diners, demanding Ham Sandwiches from Charley(Gus), and shooting fat barkeeps. That is the kind of behavior I expect out of a real Beatnik, not that Hollywood nonsense from Rebel Set.
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Post by foreign object on Sept 20, 2014 22:14:08 GMT -5
I still come out hating the hippies more, well, if all hippies were like scenery chewing Peter Breck. That guy makes Shatner look like Steven Wright.
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Post by winddemon2 on Sept 21, 2014 0:13:50 GMT -5
Yeah I don't like the way The Rebel Set portrayed beatniks, that was nothing more than a stereotypical, Hollywood caricature. I like the real beatniks, those are my idols. People like Eddy Crane, his main squeeze Iris, and his partner in crime Moon, those are the real Beatniks. Singing in diners, demanding Ham Sandwiches from Charley(Gus), and shooting fat barkeeps. That is the kind of behavior I expect out of a real Beatnik, not that Hollywood nonsense from Rebel Set. Wasn't it alluded to somewhere that "Rebel Set" has actual Beatniks while the movie "Beatniks" has something entirely different? |
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Post by milospinstripe on Sept 21, 2014 0:18:49 GMT -5
Lol I only recall the host segment from "Beatniks" where Joel and the bots refer to the characters and their traits/actions from Beatniks, and say "if you do such and such, you're NOT a Beatnik."
I started watching "The Rebel Set" last night after reading this thread, but I fell asleep early on, before the heist even starts. Its been awhile since I've watched Rebel Set, I might give it another try tonight. That weird flute music in the authors apartment is hilarious though, very Beatnik lol.
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