The Emperor’s New Groove
Directed by Mark Dindal
Written by David Reynolds, Mark Dindal, and Chris Williams
Starring David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton
One of the underlying goals of our show is to discuss the contextual issues at hand with any film we highlight. It’s impossible to attempt a halfway-intelligent discussion of the past, no matter what within the past we focus on, without deliberately acknowledging its context of our present and its original present. When we review, for example, Song of the South, it would be misleading for us not only to comment on how the film appears to us in 2013, but to focus on its initial release and subsequent re-releases, and how society reacted to it then versus now. That won’t eliminate how we feel about the actual movie, but the controversy surrounding the film is impossible to ignore. We don’t...
Directed by Mark Dindal
Written by David Reynolds, Mark Dindal, and Chris Williams
Starring David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton
One of the underlying goals of our show is to discuss the contextual issues at hand with any film we highlight. It’s impossible to attempt a halfway-intelligent discussion of the past, no matter what within the past we focus on, without deliberately acknowledging its context of our present and its original present. When we review, for example, Song of the South, it would be misleading for us not only to comment on how the film appears to us in 2013, but to focus on its initial release and subsequent re-releases, and how society reacted to it then versus now. That won’t eliminate how we feel about the actual movie, but the controversy surrounding the film is impossible to ignore. We don’t...
- 3/2/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
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