Gen Z needs more slacker movies
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Slacker movies are the hammocks of Hollywood. They’re a cozy way to sway through life for a couple hours. We need them. And this generation needs better ones. So here’s my pitch for their existence in case the long lost Coen Sister is taking a break from writing an ironic Letterboxd review of Rise of Gru and this inspires Gen Z’s Lebowski. So let’s explore the culture that makes them, what they’re missing, where they can go and why we need an update You’re the cab driver and I’m the Linklater rambling in the back seat. I want to show you why they matter.
I want to explore them through the Coen Brother's The Big Lebowski, Richard Linklater's Slacker and Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum. These show a range of their past and present and the gaps in the genre waiting to be filled.
These stories are important.
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You know your video is good when you convince a guy who has heard of the Big Lebowski but never seen it to FINALLY see the film.
hell yeah! my job here is done. the dude's an absolute all-timer that just gets better with every watch
What did you think of it??? I love it
Thanks for watching! Put at least 30 hours into this one over the last month and I’m incredibly happy with how it came out. Pushed myself on a few new fronts with the editing and writing on this and hope it came through. The dude abides
this was fantastic, thank you so much!
this is the youtube I'm still on the platform for
Amazing work man. Probably the best UA-cam video essay I have ever watched.
The Slacker and The Artist are one; abiding in a realm outside of the societal Skinner box, where the joy and play of childhood continues well into adulthood.
The struggles of survival and reproduction don't define the human expereince; and in indigenous life, were mastered to a degree whereby one would only spend a fraction of their days engaged in meeting their material needs.
But we are all born into the societal Skinner box and have to play its games. The goal is NEVER to create an ego out of the way you earn money; or to let societal demands divorce you from the joy and pleasure innate to a healthy functioning human body in a world of endless novelty and excitement.
Life is to be enjoyed. The slacker transforms the mundane and monotonous into beauty; like the sages of old.
dang man, you only get 30 views?!?! that's crazy. you're very underrated and I think you deserve more.
appreciate you dude! trying to build the channel up more. excited to see where it grows
"It starts to erode until we're only showing stories about rich people with awful taste and sterile houses that look like *memories have never been made inside of them"* This is the most perfect description for the 'luxury greige' trend I've ever heard, and something I've struggled to articulate yet always felt on a visceral level. It's rather dystopian in a way
A modem slacker movie would just be someone on their phone the whole time
That's literally why we don't have slacker films anymore.
No. This is just people's perspective of our generation. Only a director from our generation will be able to understand and bring it to the big screen.
@@MrGuitarJockey exactly. As a person of this generation, I guarantee you. This isn't what a modern slacker movie would look like.
It may be quite a ways more low-key and quiet but it absolutely would not look like that.
The algorithm working it's magic right now. Glad I ran into you my dude. Great content and love your essays. Keep up the good work and keep slackin!
Stoked to see another video from you in my feed. That 00's man-child comparison you made is super interesting. Great work as always!
appreciate you coming back and watching! means a lot
You had me with real humans are flawed weirdos. So true:) love this video and channel. Thank you:)
I'm sitting here totally stressed and full of anxiety at work, and this video totally grounded me for a bit. gonna take a minute to breathe and then slowly get back to work. doing something, but not too much.
thank you!
Hey, this video just inspired me to write a slacker film. Thanks.
hell yeah! i'll have to hit you up for the red carpet invite in a few years
The Beach Bum is a fantastic time glad to see some one giving it some flowers
i have a feeling you're going places man
appreciate you saying that. that’s what’s gonna help me get there, wherever there ends up being. thanks for watching!
Honorary shout out to Seth Rogen’s character in Knocked Up. A true spirit of the slacker - man lived off of getting hit by a postal truck 🤣
Excellent analysis
Surely "Cheech and Chong..." or "Friday" were diverse/minority slacker/stoner films ahead of the game?
please do not stop. i love this channel keep going!
appreciate you! i've got a ton in the works and no plans of stopping
just yes. thank you, man! 100% agree
Millenials, we were wide-eyed and in many ways still are, but I'm glad gen z is being more realistic even in a pessimistic way, because they are right in so many ways.
Why the dude abides is not the top comment I don’t understand. But, solidly said.
The Dude Abides chooms 😎
Great vid. I’d watch a followup or deeper discussion. I’d like to make a slacker2025.
Great vid
Here's a comment. Let's boost this thing
i marcus liked this video
Looks exhausting
Would love to hear your thoughts on Zava from Ted Lasso, and all of poker face
ok ill do it
This is why i find the first season if Atlanta special. While it might nit strictly fit into the slacker category - it kind of pulls at some similar strings.
Oh, you mentioned it.
love atlanta! and yeah have a whole video on Darius and the role he plays in the show if you're interested
this is so fire
Love this
wow thank you for the video!
thanks for stopping by!
Couldnt agree more
Nobody’s been able to slack for 15+ years. The high cost economy is very different from the 90s
late millennial I have an idea for one hopefully I can pull it off one day.
Man I love this. Do you have a contact email? I’m working on a Slacker project and would love to pick the brain of a fellow slacker fan
I prefer (certain) French New Wave movies to these American "slacker movies." Here is why. Slacker movies like these feature young folks "rebelling" against the status quo, yet are indulging in the consumer lifestyle of that status quo. It is a cynicism against the order but a lazy unoriginal resignation to it (by the characters) at once. (Certain) French new wave movies challenged the order, the "slackers" slacked off from status quo careerism YET engaged in protest against that order. Of course, this genre peaked in the 60s before consumer culture "usurped" the revolution. The nineties grunge and punk (this would be the later commercialized punk) was a "psuedo-60's" phenomenon. Underneath, just mediocre consumerism masked in ripped designer jeans and long greasy hair dangling down plaid shirts manufactured in Chinese sweat shops.
Any modern slackers I’ve been missing out on?
Maybe Jake from Adventure Time lol
Or, I Love You Man
Dud from Lodge 49 (2018-19)
Always Sunny, esp Charlie and Frank gave me slacker vibes
Fry from Futurama's also a great one, but hardly modern lol
Good video dude. Make great content, get money!
I understand your point and agree for the most part. But from a historical materialism perspective, slackers are the product of the monetary wealth and cultural poverty that dominated the 90’s rather than the cause. The slackers is inherently non political, and the way the slacker lifestyle questions everything about contemporary culture it is impossible to do without getting political. Further, a certain level of ignorance of the world is one of the pillars of the slacker, something that with current media consumption is unthinkable. How can inaction in the current world be anything but a political statement. The correctly maligned book “the end of history and the last man” by Fukuyama captures much of the zeitgeist, the neo-liberal democracy had won, this was good and now everything was gonna be fine. The only threat was lack of authenticity and integrity, something the slacker has endless amounts of.
Honestly, how could you write a slacker movie now without making a very dark and nihilistic comedy? Half the people who was talking about “the man” in the 90’s are now in prison bc of jan 6. There is a reason the slacker is always a white man, it is bc this is truly the only person society has ever permitted to be a slacker.
It is someone who takes max amounts of privilege and does nothing with it, and yet sees themselves as the underdog. I think this is in many ways the cultural ripple right wing media has so skillfully turned into the anti-woke crowd.
Incels are slackers who are not getting what they feel society owes them. the modern day slacker is a man wearing oakleys ranting at you through facebook live from his truck.
No matter what though, excellent video! Very well produced, and very interesting take! I sure do miss caring more about drinking white russians than russians comitting genocide that is for sure.
I don't entirely agree that the slacker is non political. Can we not instead agree that they exist on a different political order? They have always been politicised too. Not one based on parties, but on philosophies. The 'Slacker' is one term at a specific point in time that follows the notion of dropping out of society, or rather, a resistance to 'the dominant hegemony'. It's own dominance as a thing among white middle class is only because this is the fundamental 'type' of dropping out which gives us a milestone of this phenomena. It finds its roots not in the 90's, but the 60's under late Capitalist Western Countries, where it deviates from the 60's in terms of, I think, spirituality; of which the 90's incarnation avoids, to replace with hobbies and niche interests (at least if we only go by the films that represent them). Dropping out of society is both universal and as old as time though. We just didn't get lots of films about it until perhaps the 50's with the birth of cinema among youth culture.
The modern day slacker is someone who is not in keeping with the ideals held perhaps in the 90's. But the notion of dropping out finds itself picked up in other areas I think. The modern slacker is probably your social media influencer, or bitcoin earner. But the baton for dropping out would be those on the fringes of which there may not be a name for yet. Although aspects of this can be found in Asia instead; laying down in China, or N포세대 in Korea for example. I agree that today, the slacker or rather dropping out must be positioned in a very different way, and that is an interesting and important discussion worth exploring for sure!