Sci-Fi and Anime Fans Aim to Dress and ImpressSweeney, Joanne
Byline: Gideon SpanierNO TV audience is harder to impress than teenagers. Savvy and fickle at the best of times, they have even more distractions, from Spo... - Teenage Kicks How E4 Captured the Teen TV Market; Channel 4 Has Had Its Problems but for Younger Audiences It Is in a Leagu...
From futuristic McDonald’s waitstaff to sensual flight attendants in bulbous pillbox hats, even the anonymous roles were dressed to impress. As Theirry-Maxime Loriot put it at a Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ retrospective on Gaultier’s work, “A thousand costumes is like 10 collections but...
Zoo: “[Zozim] has to dress-up in a Druid’s robe, and put on a wig and a long false beard, to impress you silly people…. I have no patience with such mummery; but you expect it from us; so I suppose it must be kept up.” It’s Wild in the Streets meets Highlander. ...
Unable to harness his impassioned outbursts, Kitai (Jaden Smith) is rejected by the cadets. He’s physically capable, but an inability to ‘ghost’ — hide one’s feelings in order to battle the Ursas, creatures that can smell fear — puts a dampener on Kitai’s attempts to impress his...
But for Lynch, pop culture is a far more complicated proposition than it was for those directors. Lynch doesn’t work in old-movie references and golden oldies in order to impress us with arcana, or even to promote a nostalgic, tragic vision of life. (That would be too conventional). He...