Thursday, April 30, 2009

Wearing Girdles While 6 Months Pregnant

pop was not always so naive nor so light

few days ago while wandering the YouTube chance I met the gaze of Pennywise, so many years that I could not see the eyes, yet his eyes felt as fresh as the first time I saw him through a TV from those to which we had to close and turn a knob in order to change channels, such as casual encounter brought a few things to my memory, but most of all filled me with doubts, because for sure no greatest thing reminded of the movie and started to wonder with friends, the answer was always the same, thanks to that damn clown had grown up hating the clown, until a friend who if you are serious about being a collector, told me that had the original film, the official t-shirt and the doll itself. Well it turns out, comes from a novel called It written by Stephen King, yes, the marketing genius of terror and one of the favorite authors of Harold Bloom, when launching their most vicious darts is clear, published in the year '86 and tells us how in the peaceful, idyllic community of Derry in the basement there is someone with a serious interest on terror, someone called That and periodically will breed violence on the surface, until decide to go and see what happens in the streets and finds no fitter than a friendly clown gradually becomes ruthless, especially when faced with a bunch of guys who wear the peculiar name Losers.
Continuing my adventures of that day YouTube I came across another character in my nightmares, who did remember perfectly, Freddy Krueger, the epicenter of the films A Nightmare on Elm Street , and one of our murderers favorite series, the most pop of all, without doubt, who lives in the town of Springwood, at No. 1428 of Elm Street to be exact, from where he began to plan the assassination but also massive children to be arrested and prosecuted, being free due to a clerical error, as the enraged neighbors decide to take justice into their own hands and burnt him alive, or history could have happened in any city in this country, what makes it different is that over the years Freddy returns from hell and takes refuge in an old boiler room where it attracts among their nightmares the children of the city to kill them. For many of us this was undoubtedly one of the most close, first because he appeared as Freddy stepfather was none other than Mr. Alice Cooper, an icon of Glam Metal, and to blend the sound track was also Glam another band, Dokken with item Dream Warriors that appear on the EP of the same name, published in 1.986, and which also included the issues Back For The Attack and Paris Is Burning , an era in which the spaces occupied Heavy Metal most prevalent in the music industry itself that we lived so outdated, as our cinemas and local channels bringing films with three to five years behind, so that the successes of the 80's here were successful in 90's.
With the homogenization of pop culture as the only modern western bastion, were taking shape calls urban legends, many of whom were born film or TV, or at least used the media to reach the masses, succeeding in a successful manner, so that dreams and nightmares of all generations are usually a logo of Made In USA , displacing the local idiosyncrasies and myths, which has standardized in terms of our identity, and so they were very clever, but it is undeniable how much we enjoyed that face some kind of pop and how much we miss today, these icons will not ever let us sleep, but if someone has recovered and sleep, both films promise to remake or sequel for next year, or the nightmare continues ...

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