[Flip] Wilson was a more troubled person than his easy and attractive onstage demeanor would suggest. But he was also a more serious and committed one, who studied comedy like a science and performed it as an art. Part of the first wave of black comedians to break the color line, he arrived during the sociocultural crack in time we call the mid-’60s. He straddled that crack for a while, and then it swallowed him.
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It’s hard…to even imagine…adult audiences…rooting for the two leads, a couple of foul-mouthed punk kids who bicker about wet dreams and whether or not condoms suck, when they’re not committing petty offenses—and dancing around their feelings for one another. And, yet, this movie’s very entertaining. For his very low-budget ($200,000) debut, writer/director Adam Leon makes a spirited teen comedy with predominantly minority characters, which is damn near amazing in itself.
…Pryor relates two life-changing experiences…first is his trip to…Africa…he brings the audience up short with a…revelation that leads him to forswear ever again calling another black person the “N-word.” The second, of course, is his near-fatal freebasing accident…
…That many people like it and enjoy it? That it brings pleasure to a broad audience? Does it merely mean that you don’t have to be an expert in anything in particular to enjoy it? Because while commonality and popularity may be a feature of plenty of artless junk, they are also a feature of plenty of artful creative work of the most traditional kinds, from Mozart to Shakespeare. They’re also easy to identify in plenty of vibrant, heartening culture from more modern traditions like soul music and stand-up comedy. The problem with popularity is not that only awful things are popular or that “the masses” can’t tell the difference; it’s the wrongheaded philosophy that only popular things are perceived to be good, or the practical problem that arises when only popular things can survive. A statement that something is “fine for the masses” or “made for the masses” could simply mean it’s of high quality and accessible, which should be a good thing, or could mean it’s facile and uncreative, in which case what’s wrong with it is that it’s facile and uncreative, not that there exists somewhere a teeming zombie horde of undifferentiated pasty-faced morons waiting to snap it up.
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I wanted to make a movie about love—and what I’ve noticed is what often gets in the way of love is how people objectify each other; they put expectations on each other and they’ve learned these expectations from various places, whether it’s their parents, friends, church, or different forms of media. So I thought making a love story about a guy who watches too much porn and a girl…who watches too many romantic movies would be really funny, and get at this theme.
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![[Flip] Wilson was a more troubled person than his easy and attractive onstage demeanor would suggest. But he was also a more serious and committed one, who studied comedy like a science and performed it as an art. Part of the first wave of black comedians to break the color line, he arrived during the sociocultural crack in time we call the mid-’60s. He straddled that crack for a while, and then it swallowed him.
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