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Re: How did America do it
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Wednesday, June 1 2011, 15:09:32 (UTC)
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That's why my point of reference is usually cinema, music, basically, mass media and pop culture. I remember an uncle in Iran, Khalu George, who'd always talk about America, giving us kids the impression that he'd lived there. When I grew up and was taking film courses in college, I learned that most of the stories he'd internalized about America were from old Frank Capra films, and furthermore, I found out from my aunt that Khalu had never left Iran - he'd only left Salamas to visit us in Tehran. And I also realized that the adults around me would vicariously live through the dreams and achievments of Hollywood characters. In the '80s when "Scarface" was released, almost all of the new immigrant Assyrian young men from Iran, Iraq and Turkey I met in San Jose and L.A., in one way or another, were trying to emulate the character of Tony Montana. Hollywood and the music industry sell dreams but it's really propaganda aimed at engineering consent. The artists that refuse to make a product for product sake and focus on making lasting art usually live rather humble lives, many of them, live in borderline poverty and become famous and appreciated after they die, like Gil Scott-Heron. The last decade of his life was spent in debt, in prison, in drug recovery, and finally, in hospitals and death - the American nightmare.



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