I’m sorry but herewith is a bellowing HE ixnay in response to an outrageous, forehead-slapping assertion from Variety‘s Owen Gleiberman, to wit:
No, no, no, no, no…no way.
First, Owen says that the “OBAA is hardcore leftwing girlboss agitprop” accusation is primarily coming from “commentators on the right, the far right, and the extreme alt-right, from Ben Shapiro to film critic Armond White.”
But wait…he acknowledges that Brett Easton Ellis is saying this also.
And hey…what about little old me, bruh?…a sensible centrist who voted for Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and John Kerry, who wears Italian-crafted lace-ups and has undergone three Prague touch-ups, continues to swear by David Bowie, Lou Reed and Warren Zevon on the headphones while telling Big Star cultists to go fuck themselves, dropped acid at least 10 or 12 times in the old days, and so on? I’m no rightie! I’m an odd blend of Honore de Balzac, Georges Danton and Robert Ryan‘s Deke Thornton in The Wild Bunch, for Chrissake.
And what about John Nolte‘s recent, thought-through assertion that One Battle After Another is a grand inverse of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation?
HE to Gleiberman: “I’m very, very sorry but OBAA definitely celebrates or at least emotionally supports or sympathizes with vigorous hard-left agitation and sweaty-ass-cheek insurrectionism…
“On top of which it’s totally fucking finished as a prospective Best Picture Oscar winner. Nominations, sure, but no Best Picture cigar. The four finalists with an actual chance of winning the top prize are Hamnet, the totally masterful and elevational Sentimental Value, possibly Marty Supreme but not really, and Ryan Coogler’s bullshit mediocre schlocksploitation vampire flick.
“The nationwide vibe shift has changed everything. Charlie Kirk (whose views I mostly found appalling, no matter how civil his debating manner was) was shot in the neck by a young, ferocious-minded gay lefty…a dude who thought and acted and burned within like Perfidia Beverly Hills. Stick a fork into One Battle After Another. Stick it in and break it off.”
