"A History of Green Lights Gone Bad"...

...perhaps that would work as the title of the documentrary that Roger Ebert suggested in 1996 which would consist of segments devoted to chronicling indivual cases of mind bogglingly bad desicions on the part of film studios. This would means that you would take maybe 5-7 terrible movies with the worst/dumbest plots and try to answer for each movie in the course of maybe 15-30 mineutes segments, the question: how did this move get the green light?
So you would contact all the people known to have participated in the green lighting/finacing process for these films-executive producers, etc.-and interview them and then interview actors maybe too, etc.

Heres a good example of the kind of movie I'm speaking of: "Joe's Apartment" inwhich a guy finds he can talk to coackroaches, he becomes friends with his coackroaches and when he gets an eviction notice from the apartment landlord the coachroaches band together to bring down the landlord. By the way, "Joe's Apartment" was not an animated movie. It was from 1996 so they did the coachroaches with claymation (a important fact in the movie's badness. Another movie that would be a good fit for this would be "Even cowgirls get the blues" by Gus Zan vand starring Uma Thurman who plays a hitch hiker hippy with huge thumbs (seemingly a foot long).

The point is, i should say, that i think someone should make such a documentaries.

Leonard Cohen on young nazi's

Standing on a rooftop in Paris, Cohen, sometime in the early 90's is being interviewed for TV and he is asked what he would say to a young Nazi if he were alone in a room with one and Cohen, in the clip i link to below, instead of giving the obvious and typical boilerplate answer condemning Nazi's and so fourth gives a beatiful and strikingly insightful answer which speaks to a large void in our current poltical culture and in our culture as a whole aswell. Enjoy:


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Q: Could you imagine if you where alone with a young Nazi and, like, arguing with, what would you say?

Leonard Cohen: "I would probably have a great deal in common with a young Nazi. Ya know. I believe in a life in discpline, i believe in a life that is...convicted, in other words, in a life that is constracted to a certain kind of end, a life that is...imbued with a cretain signifgance. I believe in those aims. i believe its unfornutante that the fascists are the only one producing this kind of appeal and i urge the instuitions of the center, the liberal, the conservative instuitions that we believe reprsent the highest ideals of the west, i urge them to produce rhetoric and inviation to the youth that has the same kind of vitality and signifgance that the right wing is begining to be able to present."