Teenage Paparazzo

[Jonathanr]

I watched this movie tonight (it's currently on abc.net.au/iview - not sure if that's available out side Australia). It's about this 13 yo kid who gets into being a paparazzo photographer around Hollywood. It looks at a number of psycho/socio issues about society, celebrity, and pop culture. I found it quite fascinating, and I think there's more food for though and reflection embodied than probably was intended.

It also touches on modern civilization's sense of community - which I have asserted in the past is much more virtual than proximal, initially by virtue of the automobile, and now moreso by virtue of the internet. I wonder whether it will swing back or whether chaos will ensue when we need a proximal community and discover that there isn't one, or what is, is very sparse.

There's my review, and a few bob of opinion added for good measure.

[zonsb]

Astute observations. Have you considered that it has long been intended to glamorize Hollywood and celebrities in general to occupy people's minds and actions so as not to think about critical issues like who is screwing them over. And the hour is late.

In other words, they (corporate media which has been consolidated into six corporations) they created the mess and as fast as they're backpedaling to get away from it, in the next headline or movie they make an even more audacious/irrational assertion.

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[Jonathanr]

Zonsb, I think the glamourization of celebrity is nothing but industry promotion and marketing. Anything more and sinister is conspiracy theory stuff - and you have to define who's pulling the strings, and demonstrate the lines of control. I think it is just multiple actors out there milking it for all its worth, in whatever capacity they have.

[zonsb]

For the most part it is as you say -- Hollywood glamorizing itself for its self-interested gain. Who controls the money at the highest levels? He who owns the gold makes the rules. The hand that lends is above the hand that barrows. Have you read Tragedy and Hope? Watched G. Edward Griffin's interview of Norman Dodd?

Is there propaganda in TV news, 60 minutes, 20/20, dateline, programs, movies. Who pulls the strings and has the lines of control? Have you heard of Edward Bernays? He glamorized women smoking. It then began appearing in movies and magazines. He went way far beyond that. But that was the entrance door that rose him to prominence in the corporate world. Prior to that, propaganda was used primarily for political manipulation of people to do things like back a country (government) going to war. I find it interesting that people that have woken up watch little television, are much less interested in celebrities and professional sports.

(10-24-2011 07:38 PM)Jonathanr Wrote:  Anything more and sinister is conspiracy theory stuff - and you have to define who's pulling the strings, and demonstrate the lines of control.

(Emphasis mine.)

Do you believe the official government conspiracy theory of the terrorist attacks on 9/11? Who pulled the strings and what were the lines of control?

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