Hollywood

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-09-25 06:06pm

Hey kids, college plus work equals no time for recent posts, but I have a day off so here I am.

Anyway, yesterday as part of some Film Studies work, we had to write an essay about what the word "Hollywood" made us think about. Now thats pretty easy on a simple level: films.
Does anyone think anything else when they hear "Hollywood" mentioned?

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-09-25 06:10pm

A sewage outlet with the occasional gem that got flushed down the sink by mistake.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-09-25 06:13pm

2000AD wrote:A sewage outlet with the occasional gem that got flushed down the sink by mistake.

Nice out look, do you mean the film industry though, or have you frequented a Hollywood sewage outlet?

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-09-25 06:14pm

I mean that the film industry pretty much churns out shit, but there's the oocasional good film in there.

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2003-09-25 06:17pm

This is true, I haven't seen one good film out recently, although thats probably cos i haven't been to the cinema in ages.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-09-25 06:37pm

I work at Hollywood Video, so there's quite a bit that comes to mind when I hear "Hollywood". Examples:

"We are Hollywood. We are entertainment."

"Hollywood is dedicated to exceptional guest experiences delivered with genuine warmth and friendliness."

And plenty of other stupid-ass corporate catch-phrases, false promises, and "paradigms". I think of all that, plus my paycheck.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-09-25 06:39pm

Hollywood:

My mispent youth.
Mass alchohol consumption.
Get off the 405 at La Cienega, or it'll take forever to get there.
Raji's
The Odyssey
The summer of 1984.
Somehow, I never got in trouble.
Haunted Garage
The Dickies
Celebrity Skin
And lots of sex.

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2003-09-25 06:45pm

Dorsk 81 wrote:Hey kids, college plus work equals no time for recent posts, but I have a day off so here I am.

Anyway, yesterday as part of some Film Studies work, we had to write an essay about what the word "Hollywood" made us think about. Now thats pretty easy on a simple level: films.
Does anyone think anything else when they hear "Hollywood" mentioned?

Glitz... Airheads... The worst part of a highschool culture--meaning everything is based on popularity, or so I hear.

Hollywood produces great blockbusters that I like to watch, but the good films come from elsewhere.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-09-25 06:48pm

Robert Treder wrote:"Hollywood is dedicated to exceptional guest experiences delivered with genuine warmth and friendliness."

Hmmm...prostitution...I never would've guessed....

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-09-26 11:39am

I often free associate "Hollywood" with "Peckerwood".

Also, isn't Hollywood Blvd known for having lots of hookers on it?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-09-26 11:47am

The sizzle without the steak.

Glamour.

Shiny, beautiful, totally brainless people.

Ridiculously ostentatious, obscenely narcissistic displays of wealth.

Fake tits.

Nauseatingly self-aggrandizing awards shows.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-26 11:53am

You forgot.... Scientology!!!

Personally, upon reading how many celebs are Scientologists - I'm afraid that Hubbard's get-rich-quick scheme would develop into the Hollywood equivalent of the Freemasons. (if the PETA haven't became that)

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-09-26 12:01pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:You forgot.... Scientology!!!

Personally, upon reading how many celebs are Scientologists - I'm afraid that Hubbard's get-rich-quick scheme would develop into the Hollywood equivalent of the Freemasons. (if the PETA haven't became that)

I hadn't realized Scientology had been around as long as it has. I was watching The Howling (early 80's) and one of the people (werewolves) in the colony mentioned Scientology as one of the things she had tried that hadn't worked for her. I found that line rather funny now where I never paid much attention to it in the past.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-09-26 12:12pm

Tsyroc wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:You forgot.... Scientology!!!

Personally, upon reading how many celebs are Scientologists - I'm afraid that Hubbard's get-rich-quick scheme would develop into the Hollywood equivalent of the Freemasons. (if the PETA haven't became that)
I hadn't realized Scientology had been around as long as it has. I was watching The Howling (early 80's) and one of the people (werewolves) in the colony mentioned Scientology as one of the things she had tried that hadn't worked for her. I found that line rather funny now where I never paid much attention to it in the past.

Well, "Dianetics" was published in the 1950s IIRC and the movement itself slowly started during that timeframe. It's just in the 1970s it became trendy.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-09-26 12:34pm

Darth Wong wrote:Nauseatingly self-aggrandizing awards shows.

I fucking hate those the most! goddammit if i want to watch 3 hours of autofellatio i'd rent that Ron Jeremy movie where he sucks his own dick.
Oh! And Joan Fucking Rivers and her cunt daughter, do they serve any useful purpose? waste of skin!

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-09-26 12:40pm

Illusion. (In the bad sense)

Arrogance.

Self-Centrism. (sp?)

Glamour.

greenmm · Post by **greenmm** » 2003-09-26 12:55pm

Dorsk 81 wrote:Hey kids, college plus work equals no time for recent posts, but I have a day off so here I am.

Anyway, yesterday as part of some Film Studies work, we had to write an essay about what the word "Hollywood" made us think about. Now thats pretty easy on a simple level: films.
Does anyone think anything else when they hear "Hollywood" mentioned?

Clueless (as in no fucking clue what the real world or real lives are like)

Bitchy stars that can't figure out what they want (i.e. first they complain about how their careers suck and they don't get enough press, then they complain when they make the covers of the tabloids, news, celebrity news shows like Access Hollywood, or other news outlets)

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-09-26 12:57pm

Dorsk 81 wrote: we had to write an essay

Wouldn't that be a really short essay? Or, is it an exercise in making one paragraph of info fill 10 pages?

...about what the word "Hollywood"

Thanks to a Seinfeld episode, any word association immediately makes me think of tuberculosis. So the word Hollywood makes me think of tuberculosis.

FettKyle · Post by **FettKyle** » 2003-09-26 02:41pm

I think of huge corprate take overs and the old good films like 2001 Space Odyssey God I wish they would slow down for a change and give us good actor time. Like Road to Perdition. So many people out there think that is a slow movie. Me that one was sort of fast. 2001 was slow. Movies go way to fast these Day's and uses sublimnal advertising.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-09-26 03:14pm

The bigger, uglier brother of independent film.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-26 03:16pm

Cinema.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-09-26 03:18pm

Propaganda.

apocolypse · Post by **apocolypse** » 2003-09-26 03:42pm

Tsyroc wrote:I often free associate "Hollywood" with "Peckerwood".

Also, isn't Hollywood Blvd known for having lots of hookers on it?

Nah, not so much anymore. They cracked down on it quite a bit to make it more tourist friendly IIRC. However, Santa Monica Blvd. has quite a bit of action. Except the girls aren't really girls.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-09-26 04:09pm

Alicia Silverstone wrote:I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2003-09-26 07:11pm

My ass.

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