#muckumentary

[thatscarletflycatcher]

My Top 10 Posts of 2023

1. This post about Tordos, shiny cowbirds: 2,667 notes - Oct 14 2023

2. This post about this audiobook prank: 2,255 notes - Oct 31 2023

3. This post about Glass Onion where people at the very least partially misunderstood what I meant. Kinda glad the Benoit Blanc fever is a bit over because it was getting smug and obnoxious. 556 notes - Jan 25 2023

I keep seeing people saying stuff like "what sets apart Knives Out and Glass Onion from Poirot or Sherlock Holmes is that...

4. This post about Beth March from Little Women: 519 notes - Jul 2 2023

People talk about how Beth March is unrealistic and impossible to relate to, but I have very few times felt as identified with a...

5. This post about period dramas: 433 notes - Aug 18 2023

Show a medieval peasant this and show an edwardian that, well the TRUE thing is "show them a period drama set in their times"

6. This post about Austen adaptations as muckumentaries (I still want to see it!!!) 389 notes - Jul 27 2023

The more the time passes, the more convinced I am that THE style to try for Austen adaptation next is mockumentary. But we...

7. This post on Jane Eyre and the importance of the theme of mercy in the novel: 275 notes - May 22 2023

The more the time passes, the more convinced I am that a reading of Jane Eyre that omits the theme of mercy as key to the story...

8. This poll about fictional British navy men: 275 notes - Apr 28 2023

Favorite Fictional Period British Navy Man, go! William Price from Mansfield Park Captain Harville from Persuasion Jack Aubrey...

9. This post about the deuterocanonical books of the Bible: 257 notes - Oct 1 2023

10. This gifset of Emma (1996, ITV) 246 notes - Jul 4 2023

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[back-and-totheleft]

"The downward spiral of America’s cultural perversity"

Oliver Stone didn’t declare himself the King of the World after winning Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for Platoon, but, after following Platoon with the success of Wall Street, Stone clearly had his choice of projects in 1988. However, before the run of ambitious and controversial films that would follow, Stone made one of his smallest-scale films with Talk Radio. In adapting Eric Bogosian’s acclaimed play, Stone and the playwright added details from Stephen Singular’s biography of Alan Berg, a Denver radio host murdered in his own driveway by a neo-Nazi group in 1984. Shot in four weeks in Dallas, almost entirely in a warehouse converted into a radio station, the film is Stone’s examination of Reagan-era American culture through the transmission of a radio talk show in the middle of a Texas night.

Every aspect of the modern American cesspool that the film takes in — neuroses, self-destruction, corporate machinations, racism, schizophrenia, violence, stupidity — is filtered through Barry Champlain, the acerbic host of Dallas radio’s top-rated show, “Night Talk”. Barry, as his theme music warns you (or promises), is bad to the bone, in more ways than one. Barry is all of the things Americans desire in their highest-paid talk-radio hosts: loud, opinionated, short-tempered, condescending, and rude.

Those who call in to talk to Barry represent a cross-section of frightening insomniacs. These folks are stock-character masochists, calling in for a fresh Barry pole-axing. Hicks, derelicts, rapists, burnouts, bigots, simpletons — they all call in and convince Barry that, as he says, “this country is rotten to the core”. The voices of the night in one American city provide Barry with enough bile to keep him going, but it’s also a relationship that seems to be eating him alive. “I’m glad people like Kent are out there, and I’m in here,” Barry claims after one particularly gruesome call, yet when Barry spits vitriol about the decay of the American scene, he looks and sounds like a man on a suicide mission to be consumed by it.

All the while, people watch Barry from behind glass. He is an animal trapped in a cage, talking, chain-smoking, and watching people watch him. Stone creates a vortex of claustrophobia, circling Barry in arc shots with the camera or, in Barry’s final epic rant, rotating the background to circle a solitary Barry. Despite these occasional flourishes, the scenes of Barry at work — the bulk of the film — capture the single-set design of the stage show, and Stone is mostly content to stay out of the way and let Bogosian work.

It’s a sizzling performance. Bogosion crawls so deep into the troubled psyche of his creation, it’s impossible to distinguish between the two, especially given the frantic pace of shooting, as Bogosian looks exhausted and demented by the end of the film. Pushing Barry further over the edge is his boss, played with drippy smarm by Alec Baldwin, who kisses the ass of the corporate radio giant, Metrowave, interested in taking Barry and “Night Talk” to the syndication big leagues. Barry, however, is just self-destructive enough to raise the shock-talk ante and scare Metrowave away, that is if he isn’t too busy verbally mutilating his ex-wife, ruining his chance at reconciliation with her. Or goading his audiences into killing him.

Amid the neon lights and perms and skinny ties in Talk Radio, what holds up is the prescient examination of the downward spiral of America’s cultural perversity, not the least of all in the ways we communicate and the fascination we have with mutual abuse. Callers are essentially begging to be insulted and vilified by Barry, and thousands of others listen in for nightly doses of public humiliation. In an age of message-board flame wars, reality-television shouting matches, and muckumentary exercises in embarrassment, Talk Radio, for its time, was not only a table-turning expose of the Howard Sterns or Don Imuses reaching national celebrity at the time, but a dizzying, complex view of a country going straight to hell and one fascinated by watching it happen.

-Steve Leftridge, "Reconsidering the Oliver Stone Filmography," PopMatters, Sept 23 2010

[comidaparalobos]

Desopilante #falsoreality sobre cuatro vampiros que llevan compartiendo casa por cientos de años, padeciendo los altibajos naturales de los roces por convivencia, hasta que reciben la visita de su señor oscuro, quien llega para recordarles cuál es su misión es someter a la humanidad. Una delicia del humor absurdo que expone todos los recursos narrativos del reality. Mañana hablaremos de esta joya del guion por @futurofm en #pqsp . Como siempre cuando hayan desaparecido los rayos de sol 😎🧛🏻‍♀️ #comedia #muckumentary @starplusla https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg0qvNBOBid/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wrestlingatthemovies]

Grunt! The Wrestling Movie

Mockumentary about the way the pro wrestling industry deals with the aftermath of the world champion being decapitated in the ring during a title defense. 10 of the best wrestlers in the world are invited to a battle royal to crown a new champion but is the mysterious fan favorite “The Mask” really the man who killed the former champ?

There is plenty of wrestling match and promo footage featuring both actors and wrestlers, some of the more famous include former WWF Tag Team Champion Dick Murdoch, NWA Hall of Famer “The Golden Greek” John Tolos, G.L.O.W. stars Matilda The Hun and Salt, Dangerous Dan Spivey and Mando Guerrero the bother of the late WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero.

British wrestler Adrian Street and his manager Miss Linda feature quite heavily as he is not only is the “Exotic” one  an entrant in the Battle Royal finale but he also hosts a talk show segment where they interview The Mask.

The film features a number of wrestling themed songs including Wrestling Tonight by Sha-Na-Na and Breaking Bones by the aforementioned Adrian Street and the Piledrivers who also provide 2 other songs. 

Featured Wrestlers:

Dick Murdoch as A Grunt Brother

Adrian Street as himself

Miss Linda as herself

Mando Guerrero as El Torro

John Tolos as himself

Victor Rivera as Skull Crusher Johnson

“Irish” Pat Barrett as The Terrible Two

Bill Anderson as The Terrible Two

Pistol Pete Marquez as himself

Matilda the Hun as Queen Kong

Salt  as Charli

Dan Spivey as Battle Royal contestant

Steve DeSalvo as Battle Royal contestant

El Goliath as Battle Royal contestant

Steve Pardee as Battle Royal contestant

Jesse Hernandez referee

Wrestle Rating:

4 out of 5 human pyramids

While not a particularly great film it’s theme should make it a must watch for wrestling fans. 

[saramissildine]

The Office part 1

Now on to a new series!  The Office is a sitcom that aired on NBC in March of 2005.  It immediately became a hit and lasted 9 seasons!  The Office is a muckumentary to the British TV series The Office.  In my opinion The Office was so much better than the British TV series.  Steve Carell plays the amazing Michael Scott and he is the regional manager of the Scranton branch office. 

The first couple of season is when you meet the cast and see their personalities and how their role will play apart of the series.  In my opinion, it took me a little longer to get into the show, but I am so glad that I kept pushing through.  This series gets better and better every single season!  The one thing I love the most about this show is that every character is important.  There is not just one main character and the others are just there.  Everyone has an important role and if anyone from the cast was not there, it changed things.  The Office is definitely my favorite sitcom.

September 4, 2020 10:40 A.M.

[formerlyroyal]

Interesting that Charles was upset and finally voiced his disapproval when the muckumentary overshadowed his TV show. Throughout this mess he's been invisible and silent, not defending W&C and the BRF, but hey, don't phuck with HIS self-promoting PR. I know that in the past he's thrown his sons under the bus to make himself look good. Charles is not my cuppa tea.

I hear you. I really don’t have much of an opinion on him. But yep, he hated Diana for eclipsing him, and outsmarting him! It was pretty 💩💩💩 of them to do it to PC and WillKat on their Pakistan tour. A**holes!

[verotile]

I lived the Muckumentary

From the Supernatural Fan Documentary

[5brightplanets]

Muckumentary / Sausage Makers Of History Nr. 101  |  2017 Graffiti Series  |  by James FitzGerald ===== Share able .jpg of this photo is on 5brightplanets.tumblr.com ; or, navigate to tumblr.com and use the searchbox to check out my blog at 5brightplanets. Photos are archived by the date of original post and make perfect screensavers for digital devices. I am grateful when you credit my experiences and the larger story when you share photos of my travels. -Jim ===== More about this photo series at http://5brightplanets.tumblr.com/post/151328969692/the-graffiti-series-grateful-awareness-of-the  

[curiouscapture-blog1]

Online survey result Unit 5 and 6, 1.2

After carrying out research on my target audience through questioners that I handed out around my campus I decided to do an online survey to be able to reach a wider range of people from different ages to different ideas and cultures. The main reason I decided to do an online survey is because I wanted an opinion of people above the age range of 16-18 and it is really hard to find students that are older in our college so I came up with this idea and shared it on my different social medias. 

Although it might sound really easy to create an online survey as there are various websites out there I did struggle a little bit at first but I eventually found the perfect website that was easy to use and easy to share on different social media sites.

The first website I came across was https://freeonlinesurveys.com/#/ and it looked really simple at first I infact managed to make the whole survey with my different open, multiple and closed questions. 

However, when I went to launch my survey -share it on my social media sites- in order to get people to do it this page came up

Sharing the survey on social media sites was apparently an advanced feature for this website and I had to pay to be able to use it. I then decided to opt for something different and try and find a website that would let me make the survey and share it for free. 

After trying out different websites I came across https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk which was easy to use, create the survey, share and get the results of the survey for free. 

I wrote down all the questions and comparing to the other website is was a lot more easier to use and there were also a lot more options to chose from. Plus, everything was free to use including sharing the survey on social medias. 

After sharing the survey -https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WYHPHQN-  for a couple of days I decided to go back on it and see the results 

As I expected, in the online survey I have a range of people of different ages. However, under 18 is still part of the majority of people that did the survey which is again because it’s young people that are most likely to be on social media more often then older people. 

The majority of people that did the survey were female although there is not a drastic difference between the two. 

Under the question “Do you watch documentaries?” the majority of people answered sometimes which surprised me as I was expecting a lot of people to say “never” due to the fact that people are not likely to watch documentaries as they are considered “boring” by the vast majority. There was also a surprising 20% and 13% for often and once a week which also shocked me as I would never think people actually enjoy watching documentaries every week or even often. 

The type of documentary that people enjoy watching is mostly formative and historical. However, biography and wildlife is also quite popular with around 30%. Mockumentary on the other hand is not as popular. The reason behind it could be the fact that there are not as much muckumentaries out there and people are not aware of what they actually are as when I was handing out questionnaires a frequent question was “What is Mockumentary?”.

When asked if they would want to watch a documentary on multiculturalism the majority of people said yes.

These are a few answers that people gave when asked “If they would like to watch a documentary on multiculturalism why would they want to watch it?” reading through the comments I came across a lot of people that wanted to watch it either because they had never watched one on this topic and they were curious or because they found the topic interesting and different. 

Peoples answers when asked “What is multiculturalism to you?” we can see by the answers that people are not quite sure about what multiculturalism actually is. A lot of people, in fact, answerd “I don't know” or “I’m not sure but I guess it's different people” which shows that they are not aware of this topic and need to be educated. 

When asked what they expected to see in a documentary about multiculturalism everyone had their own ideas but the majority of people said either “different cultures” or “different people”.

I really liked reading through these answers about how people felt about immigrants as they were all very positive and you could tell that they were coming from open minded people that might not know what multiculturalism is but support it and are not against it.

Lastly, these are the answers that people gave when asked how they feel about sharing their culture with other people from different countries. Just as the previous question the answers to this question are also very positive.

After this online survey I now have a clear understanding of my target audience and what people of different age groups think of documentaries and multiculturalism. Through this survey and the questionnaire I also got to understand that not a lot of people have a clear idea of what multiculturalism actually is and would like to know more about it to enrich their knowledge and learn something new. After all this research on target audience I now am confident on my idea and will be developing it further. 

[chippedshotglass-blog]

Behind The Mask: The Rise And Fall of Leslie Vernon is a film pretty unknown beyond the numerous awards it earned in '06.  First of all, I love these types of films - a different outlook on the psychopath, especially one that kills on a grand scale. This film shows the "effort" a supernatural killer such as Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees exert; in this case Leslie Vernon, the rising star. Nathan Baesel plays a great character, not just a killer, but one that is so enthusiastic about his work.  It also brought up points I never particularly recognized while watching slasher films, like the whole symbolic journey the "survivor girl" endures over the course of the film.  What I especially love is the numerous references to classic horror films and subtly linking them to this plot.  Robert Englund as the male protagonist is very clever.  I hope there's a sequel.