Wallace harshly criticized David Lynch’s use of Richard Pryor in Lost Highway, by then visibly disabled with multiple sclerosis, in one scene. “Pryor's infirmity is meant to be grotesque and to jar against all our old memories of the ‘real’ Pryor,” wrote Wallace. “Pryor's scenes are the parts of Lost Highway where I like David Lynch least: Pryor's painful to watch, and not painful in a good way or a way that has anything to do with the business of the movie, and I can't help thinking that Lynch is exploiting Pryor the same way John Waters exploits Patricia Hearst, i.e., letting an actor think he's been hired to act when he's really been hired to be a spectacle, an arch joke for the audience to congratulate themselves on getting.”
Wallace harshly criticized David Lynch’s use of Richard Pryor in Lost Highway...
most overrated person ever
Killed himself like a coward
Now why should I want to make fun of Richard Pryor? And why shouldn’t he be in the film? Richard Pryor is a great guy. He’s in a wheelchair, and he can’t play a huge role, but I really wanted to work with him. I saw him in a show, and I fell in love with him. He was just talking about himself and his life, and I said I really wanted to work with this guy. He did the scripted scenes, and then I put him on the phone in the office of the garage, introduced a mental concept, and let him go for nine minutes. He was amazing. A fragment of that is in the film. That’s the kind of thinking… it’s really sick and twisted. It’s really them that are imagining these things, so they’re the sick and twisted ones just to come up with that concept.’
Yikes! Very ableist POV. Unsurprising from an SA perpetrator
This is what happens when you grow up on Steven Spielberg and think art exists to make you happy
It's no surprise this guy ended up offing himself like a bitch
I honestly don't remember the Pryor scene at all.
Why does Anon Babble hate DFW all of a sudden? Don't you know he's an honorary chud?
Why did he ack, bros? He was famous, well-paid, had a dream job. I don't get it.
He became famous after he died, barely anyone outside established literary circles had even heard of Infinite Jest, let alone read it.
I read it. Its shit of the highest order.
Too depressed
you definitely did not read Infinite Jest lol
He had treatment resistant depression
what's up with the gay bandana?
why did no one ever rip it off?
he was famous in his time as you could be for an author in his prime
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Bald cuck.Low stem
I have a feeling he fucked more than a couple of his students/fans and would have been canceled, which is the same as offing yourself, if he had lived on.
It's unreadable in this age. Perhaps in it's time it might have been "groundbreaking" but became culturally standardized pretty quick with stuff like The Simpsons, South Park and Adult Swim
Hope he didn't see Richard's guests appearance in the norm show. Dude was drooling and couldn't even talk shit was way sad.
This. He jumped out in 2008. Good for him. Looking back I should have done the same.
became culturally standardized pretty quick with stuff like The Simpsons
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A must read imo and posdibly the last thing he ever finished writing?
Seinfeld became popular and he saw where the future was headed. Any reasonable person would do the same.
He already got meetooed and canceled posthumously.
i think ppl like that brain is only happy with constant dopamine hits from praise or whatever
can be video games, porn, youtube, fame
eventually it burns out and the good feeling you get from rewards stops working
at that point there's no point in living
I think this is why having a family is the meaning of life because ultimately that is what sustains
all the trinkets of life stop being cool at a certain point, these trinkets can even be stuff like really important work because it's ultimately self serving
I've had Infinite Jest on my book shelf for like 8 years now. Should I actually read it? I have tended to agree with most of the things Bret Easton Ellis said about him
If I did to a dog what he did to language in his fiction I'd be arrested
I don't say this often but I'm glad he's dead
I just realized this is wear zoomer fashion comes from
the big clunky shoes
the round instead of square glasses
the shitty beard that's not lumberjack style
the baggy clothes
the esoteric logo on the shirt instead of a band logo
rumor that he fell for a mossad honeypot, they don't tolerate whites who outdo their intellectual mazeruns. pynchon gets a pass because he's a self-hating one of them.
what did Breat Easton Ellis say about DFW?
I've never read DFW either, but I've read a bunch of Easton Ellis and I thought his books were super shitty
zoomers started with tight clothes but then I guess they realized they have zero muscle mass.
Where the fuck is the water!?
silly, irreverent comedy show getting popular causes pseud to an hero
lol. lmaao
NTA. Read Consider the Lobster before Jest, it's a kino essay collection on film, sports, and the title crustacean, the Max Hardcore p0rn set chapter is deservedly infamous
thank you anon that was a pleasant read
Supposedly it was because he sweat a lot. You can see in the Charlie Rose interview he complains about having "sweaty hands".