Mark Kermode vs William Friedkin
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Anyone just see the smug git Mark Kermode just get shot down by William Friedkin on beeb2?
Kermode, as usual, tried to apply his pseudo intellectual crap to Friedkin about his new flick called Killer Joe. Friedkin put him in his place something proper.
Nearly as funny as the time Kermode declared Alien was a film about the fear of male rape, to which the writer of Alien (Dan O Bannon) burst out laughing.
Kermode, as usual, tried to apply his pseudo intellectual crap to Friedkin about his new flick called Killer Joe. Friedkin put him in his place something proper.
Nearly as funny as the time Kermode declared Alien was a film about the fear of male rape, to which the writer of Alien (Dan O Bannon) burst out laughing.
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They know each other well enough for Kermode to call Friedkin "Billy". It was a friendly riposte not a shooting-down.
in alien's case it was the rise of gay rights and women's lib, men were feeling threatened (bram stoker's dracula at the turn of the century was also an attack on 'new women'). alien has many references to rape - the alien's mouth, the dripping passages of the nostromo, the way the alien slides it's tentacle between harry dean stanton's legs, the way john hurt is 'impregnanted' then dies during childbirth...