No, that's Waluigi dressed as Spike Lee.

I'm dead

He's a shill for Nintendo

Reading this comment right after that pinned paragraph made me cry

@@igglemustang2699 the dichotomy of man

so they can realize they are fakes

Well, based on the references to Bob Dole and Gorbachev, you can safely date this to more than 20 years ago. But yeah, they likely cost more than 5k then as well.

Inflation man

In today’s mullah

No intention of spreading self-consciousness but isn't it E Unibus Pluram?

@@zagreus8622 My mistake. You are right it is "E Unibus Plurm." Thanks for the correction. And also..........speaking of self-consciousness, that is what I love about the essay. I love how Wallace points out that the downsides of being self-conscious and how television spreads that. Such a key concept.

@mike A. yes.

I agree and I find it dear when something or someone breaks through and calls to reflect and understand that core

He looks like he is dying inside.

That might even be worse haha.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL this comment is even better cause it caught me off guard and ironically you could say that the AVN awards is weirdly self-aware as at least it knows exactly what it is.

The Dominant Culture is so ugly and pathetic. When seen from the outside ... cultural significance?? Fuck this trash - It's called american cultural hegemony and a legacy of producing TRA$H ! What a bogus discourse ...

Yeah it’s not like we hold politicians as gods, oh wait never mind.

@Narja I wouldn't call my self an adult if I'm starting a comment with a lol at the end of the first sentence.

@@aveoak6364 nothing wrong with that lol.

I dont stand up for them, why do you?

time to bite

1:32 Agree

@Tara Chew I don’t entirely agree with you on that. The Hollywood studio system has put out many amazing artistic films, but you have to cull through a plethora of mediocrity.

@Tara Chew I wouldn’t go that far. There are many films made in the last 20-30 years that quality as high art with directors including Darren Aronofsky, Jane Champion, Barry Jenkins, David Fincher, Wes Anderson. I could go on. The films are there, but you have to wade through the Marvel crap to find them.

@Tara Chew I don’t disagree with your premise that Hollywood creativity is in decline, but you can’t make a blanket claim that nothing masterful has been created since 1985. Art is a precursor and reflection of what’s going on in the world and oftentimes society needs time to catch up. We are so busy living through the day-to-dayness of our tiny lives that we can’t see the bigger picture, which is why you need to allow a film time to age. And I respectfully disagree about Fincher. Fight Club, for example, didn’t make an impression on me back in 1998, but watching it almost 25 years later - wow. We couldn’t possibly know back then that it would be modern cinema’s last look at traditional masculinity. And it’s especially relevant now post #MeToo and the ongoing debates about gender fluidity.

@Tara Chew Why do you have to insult me? We are in agreement, but your support of Hollywood ended about three decades before mine. You’re entitled to your opinion, great, have at it. And I haven’t fallen under the spell of MSM; if anything, my support of Fight Club shows that I’m mourning the loss of gender norms and haven’t embraced anyone’s woke agenda. But that’s all blah, blah, blah to you. I hope Santa brings you a remastered DVD version of Brazil for Christmas. Enjoy!

@Tara Chew walk outside

1:07 why should it hurt?...Haha...come on...it's just an awards show...

Haha...part of the reason it is taken more seriously than things like "teen choice awards" and stuff like that is precisely because it's the industry congratulating itself...hell, that would go for anything...being recognized by your peers is better than being recognized by outsiders because your peers know better than outsiders...

Well...the Golden Globes are a contradiction to that, but still...some have criticized them partially for that, like Gary Oldman, I think, but still...journalists are a step up from complete outsiders, like critics would be, one could argue...

If mathematicians acknowledge the genius of another mathematician, we take it more seriously than if random people do...same goes for any other field...you need a given field to "congratulate itself", haha...

i would do more research on that

It's not boring, it's hilarious to see them walk around like caricatures. They keep inviting Ricky Gervais to insult them because they know he'll get the viewers, not their fat entitled asses.

Yes boring and I dont need to worship these ppl.

A piece of non-fiction by him written pseudonymously. It's called "Big Red Son". It's pretty good!

@@mfalk6263 TY.

@@raitojustice8669 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psegnKaBm623pGQ.html It's the first essay presented in Consider The Lobster

Wrong.

@@blib6205 movies are by and large bad now. Obviously there’s some gems to look forward to but if you know where to look that shouldn’t be a problem

Lie what ??

Ricky Gervais?

Neuroticism and mental illness go hand in hand with great writing. Find a great writer who isn’t half nuts

@@mgreco712 I see your point, but it's those type of theories that lead to the romanticization of the tortured artist

@@themoreyouknowfools4974 How many artists do you know? lol

@@mgreco712 What? I just said those type of theories like you said leads to the glamorization of depressed people that were geniuses. If you meant an example, that would be Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe, Van Gogh, Bukowski etc

@@themoreyouknowfools4974 I was saying the tortured artist is a stereotype for a reason: it’s very commonly true

It's not a dismissal of acting or movies. It's a criticism of the awards show and part of a criticism of us, who engage with it instead of our real lives. I think he would have felt deeply uncomfortable at a writers' awards show. That's not the same as writers receiving awards.

@@YodasPapa He beat women. He was darker than he needed to be, inside.

@@CalebPereiraTheUnheralded What's that got to do with it? I have no interest in judging a dead man.

@@YodasPapa Being darker than you need to be tends to affect your external opinions and relationships. For example, this overly cynical one on cinema.

@@CalebPereiraTheUnheralded it's not about cinema - it's about the oscars

Yikes.

Bloody funny.

David Foster Wallace. Exceptional American Author. He took his own life 13 years ago. I'm not sure "lightening up" would do him any good, my friend.

@@DanielBurtonDidYourWife Gee whiz, what a bummer! Really wish someone had told him to turn his frown upside down!

Exactly, if American film viewers were the judges, "Ultra-Patriotic Aryan-American Eagle Warrior: Part (x) the verb(+ing)" would win every year.

dont say art

Why?

Calm down Jan.

Nice victim mentality. They gorge because you consume.

Nobody uses the word Orwellian correctly anyone more.

Enjoy your kiddie pool.

@@feralmode Stating indifference doesn't signify indifference, yet the very opposite.

@@feralmode I am sorry about being childish. What I mean is you analysis is inherently shallow. His take of the film industry isn't that cynical. In fact, I would call his take on the industry is reserved for a greater conversation. Which it is; this is a snippet of a more than two hour prose about the adult film industry. His take on Hollywood serves only as a sounding board as to how AVN is even more of a zoo. So many of the stories that we've heard this industry- heresay and vindicated, has dwarfed what ever daring quality you might see from dedicated filmmakers and actors. The product of such an industry has fueled the narcissism that comes from being lauded and being paid for looking good instead of being good. Like You and I acknowledged before, there are talented men and women in the industry, yet the amount of lives chewed up and spit out form this business does not give not give reflect on the talent of the actors, directors, producers, etc. It reflects the inherent sin that comes from vanity, greed, and lust.

@@feralmode I guess your judgement on his predisposition is on the money. Like I said in my last post there are talented artisans in the industry. In fact, I go further and would say there are a lot of talented people in a capitalist system. But, as you alluded to late stage capitalism is solely focused on growth which is why we have a lot of talent behind transformers or star wars. Overall, I think you're right about the craft, but the overall structure of the film industry in respect to its arc is dysfunctional and unsustainable.

You're basically amusing yourself to death, you engage in movies more than real life and thats why you're so sad. Thats not me btw, he was simply trying to get to the root of the increase in depression and anxiety alongside visual media, trying to find a correlation and I think he was right.

You realize David Foster Wallace, the narrator, has been dead for at least 13 years now, right?

@@DanielBurtonDidYourWife Yes I did, which is why the comment is not addressed to the narrator. It’s just a general observation.

😂

Maybe because it isn't

Seems inspire either love or hatred, nothing in between.

@@seanwoods5943 I don't hate him. I just think he's a horrible writer, and really do not understand why he's celebrated, other than his anecdote about fish.

@Tara Chew Okay, if you say so. If you think writing 50 words when 5 will do is great writing, I guess I am wrong.

A man walks into a crowded public bathroom and announces to no one in particular that he doesn't like the writing of David Foster Wallace.

@@minamur A man walks into a bathroom, takes a dump, and finds that the soiled toilet paper tells a better story than DWF's Infinite Jest.

The Dominant Culture is so ugly and pathetic. When seen from the outside ... cultural significance?? Fuck this trash - It's called american cultural hegemony and a legacy of producing TRA$H ! What a bogus discourse ...

@@AudioPervert1 lol wut?

Brack People take the Oscars way too seriously.

But why not criticize. Its his space and our forum to engage in these critiques. There will always be something worse, but i dont find this to be time wasted.

I agree. I think he is hyper analyzing it to much.

These are breads and circuses that keep us from having those more important conversations.

"*had*."

@Tara Chew He's actually a notoriously cynical man lol. In "A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again" he says he doesn't even like TV in general. Plus, there are phonies and genuine people in every industry. Just because J.K. Rowling is a terrible hypocrite, by the transitive property, that doesn't just suddenly make Fiction writing hypocritical or David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest less grand. He's obviously someone who can only see the grand scope of Hollywood instead of filtering out the actual incredible work that a select bunch of artists are doing in the film industry. He doesn't view writing this way because, well, he's in the writing business, and if he is in it as one of the representers, and believes he is a genuine soul, then he will find that writing is a genuine profession. In reality, there are phonies and genuine artists in every profession. It takes a genuine person to sift them out. David Foster Wallace has even praised David Lynch before as his favorite film maker. So while, maybe award shows are a little bogged down in self-indulgence, he calls the elements of film, "not an art form," Yet he praises the movie Blue Velvet. Turns out there's a little hypocrite in all of us, even DFW.