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451. Directorpiece Theatre: The Sublime and Subliminal Josie and the Pussycats (Patreon)

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2022-01-14 14:00:07
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2023-12
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Josie and the Pussycats can be seen as a vapid, mind-numbing waste of the senses. Someone else might see it as a satire of cultural propaganda and a decrying of the entertainment industry as a whole. Both have validity and while Abe and Adam disagree on this movie they do agree it has its charm and there’s more to this than meets the eye. Just like me, the description writer.

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Jason Olshefsky

Had a love affair with this movie around when it was out since I was really into the punk and punk-rock revival in the "underground" local music scene. As such, Josie's band struck a chord ... er ... resonated ... er some non-musical-metaphor meaning the same thing ... so I think it was relevant in that era as opposed to the band being something more edgy or non-mainstream. Local bands sounded a lot like what you could hear on the radio, so why couldn't they get famous all the same? In that vein, I though it appropriate that the subliminal message machine didn't sound much different than a bit of professional equalization rather than autotune or adding layers of studio musicians. I was impressed at the time that the film manages to succeed at all despite being so self-referential in terms of propaganda and corporate influence. What I didn't notice at the time was what you had mentioned about how the filmmakers deftly make cheap effects look more grandiose like for the "rise to stardom" montage. (Although IMDb has an estimated budget of $39M which is not exactly "low-budget" for sure.) When that's done badly it sure looks bad (I was looking for a movie I remember which ends on a "red carpet" but has no budget to pull it off so it looks exactly like it is ... can't quite remember, though.) I do also appreciate that the movie "doesn't have a mean bone in its body" as I think you put it.

Taylor Carriage

Everyone please watch The Sapphires. That's all.