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Time 0:36:45
1min Snip Transcript: Frank Capello Intelligence state to, you know, just drive consumerism, drive, drive consumerism, get all this money out of kids and just control the way that people think. And I’m actually going to play a quick clip because they do this. They have this informational video in the middle where they explain all this as told by actor Eugene Levy. Rivka Rivera Epic. I’m here to talk about subliminal messages in rock and roll music, or as it’s simply known in some cultures, rock music. You see, for years, the government has been wisely coercing teenagers to buy products they normally wouldn’t want just to get their money. Fact, kids don’t have bills to pay. Fact, they don’t pay taxes. But they do babysit and hold minimum wage jobs that earn them wads of cash as thick as, well, my body of work. As But these kids today aren’t dumb. They’re not going to buy just anything. That’s why the government has been finding small subliminal advertising suggestions in today’s rock music. The results? We can now get these kids to buy just about anything. We can have them chasing a new trend every week. And that is good for the economy. And what’s
Time 0:54:03
1min Snip Transcript: Shannon Amabile That’s really hard to swallow. And I think that’s why I do the work that I do, that I don’t like the reality we live in either, which is why I want to be with the creative people, because they know how to solve problems, And creativity is a survival skill, and they’re the best one at it. Ooh, soundbite. Rivka Rivera Odds. Frank Capello Speaking of the creators of this film specifically because as we’ve talked about like this has become a cult classic and people have discovered its politics you know way long after The fact so a few years ago was his 20 year anniversary and the writers deborah caplan and harry elfont did an interview um and someone asked them explicitly like were you seeking to write An anti-capitalist film? And they were like, no, that’s not what we were doing. We understand like the consumerism part for sure. But I’ll just quote them specifically here. Harry said, you know, we definitely talked about consumerism, but it definitely felt more to us that it was non-group think. I mean, she says at the end of the movie, you know, think for yourselves. So for them, it was, they were writing a movie about conformity
Time 0:59:26
1min Snip Transcript: Frank Capello Commercialized and targeted towards teenagers and all of the things that this film lays out. And I mean, even just like products, like Shannon, your Diet Coke. There are things that I have in my life that I enjoy. And that’s okay. We’re not saying that like you cannot enjoy a product because it has been marketed to you or because you have purchased it in a capitalist market but it’s more so to just realize how these Advertisements how they target people’s insecurities specifically because that’s kind of that’s kind of like at the heart of this and and i think a thing that this movie does really Well because there’s a few moments you know when they’re like in the party and their inner monologue is going and they’re like, Josie and Val are like, oh, everybody’s thinking this About me. And then, you know, and then at the end, you find out that Wyatt and Fiona are just a couple of like weirdos who are just like want to be accepted and think, have everyone think that they’re Cool. So like, it’s a, I think this movie does a really good job at reminding you that like- There are humans in the background. Yeah, and that advertisement based on insecurity and exploiting that insecurity, that is problematic. But like, you know, otherwise enjoying something is
Time 1:01:37
1min Snip Transcript: Rivka Rivera Consequences, you are may not be able to enjoy that thing when you put together the real, real effects that making that product has. And your participation in that by being a consumer of it is very real. We can’t do that with everything, but I do think that it’s not easy. It’s really hard, but I don’t feel good about a lot of the things I use. I don’t know what to do about that. I don’t know what to do about it. And there’s moments where it comes in and it’s overwhelming. I’m like, push it away, push it away. But like, if there was and this is why movements and unity is so important. Make these iPhones. Like I alone can’t be like, it’s going to do something for me to just isolate myself and not be a part of the world and lose work and whatever that would be. But I also can sit with the paradox that like me shutting out the reality that people are dying making these products. And I am a part of that. Like we do have to own that we’re a part of that. And that discomfort, I think, can be important